Every year for fifteen years now I have planned a fun advent for our family. As my children age though, they like to help plan it more and more. Now, we all sit down for a family meeting and hammer out the December bucket list. After that, I write it up on the calendar with…
Well, Thanksgiving has come and went. Using our frugal homemaker holiday planning guide tips will be useful this season. “Why” you say? Four weeks to Christmas. Yikes! That is what I thought too. I just grabbed my holiday planner over the weekend to see what I needed to update, change, or take out. This year…
Two years ago, we created our own movie room in the basement because we love home movie nights so much. Here’s some tips to make your home movie night more fun, on a shoestring budget. DIY Movie Theatre First, before anything is the actual movie night equipment. Nothing fancy or expensive like a projector is…
Simple Frugal Strategies to get your teen interested in helping on food prep or cooking a dish is relationship building tips. Sometimes we say “no” to stuff that is intimidating to us. Include them in all planning, recipe selections and guest invitations is an open door to inviting them to be a contributing part of…
A clean house and homeschool is a dream of every homeschooling mom in the world. What have you done? How do you do have a clean house and homeschool? As a homeschooling mom of four I understand the demands of having a clean home. In fact, I might even take it a bit further and…
Reading is my favorite hobby. I love to read. Books are one of the love’s of my life. One of my goals when my children were born was to develop a love of reading in them. For year’s part of our night time routine was to read before bed. We still read before bed if…
Moms need to be confident in homeschool plans for the new year. This is important. Lately, I have been second guessing my planning and how we have been homeschooling. Is there any other moms that have done this to themselves? I don’t want to over work my kids, or underwork them. My goal in homeschooling…
The last part of our series we will talk about child training and summer routines. Child training is important to focus on each day, not just when they are bad. Focusing on individual habits in the summer allows mom’s (or dad’s) to creatively work on solutions with their children. The homeschool year is hectic with…
Monday night was my one dish meal night and I decided to make baked spaghetti. I had some sauce that I needed to use up and extra spaghetti in my pantry. Regular spaghetti I have made a million times. but this was my first time making baked spaghetti. It really wasn’t that hard and was…
Each day as I do my morning routine, I am always happy to pick up our home with beautiful sunlight beaming in the windows. I see the cat laying on the top of the couch basking in the warmth of the sunlight, and envy her lazy day. My goal as a frugal home mom is…
In the next part of our no spend challenge we are learning how to take our unwanted items and turn them into cash. Here are a few ways that I have turned clutter into cash. Clutter to me is defined as something I have bought but end up getting rid of for less than what…
Everyone buys something and that is why I am in a no spend challenge. Not just for a day, week, or a month, but a whole year. Purchasing an item always has a reason behind it. Identifying what makes us spend money is important. I know when I was younger I spent money on clothes…
Frugal home cloth diaper cleaners are better for baby because of the all natural recipe. I have made our laundry detergent for almost 12 years now. Prior to that I used a store bought laundry soap. When I became an informed consumer and found out all of the chemicals they were placing in our…
Frugal home heat hacks opens the door to additional ways to heat in the winter. Saving on energy bills is important as other costs rise. If your frugal home seems to be under attack from rising costs, no worries, there is hope. My hope is to share ways with you that will help you keep…
Beans are easy to grow. In the ten years’ that I have been working on frugal gardening, my beans have always been plentiful. Now they are a garden staple for our quaint frugal garden. I don’t plant what we do not eat. That would be silly. We eat a lot of green beans so that…
This winter is supposed to be cold, so I am prepping with some frugal home hacks to save on heat. My pet peeve is to be cold. Nothing about the cold is my favorite thing, except for snow. I do like the snow and sledding, but not the cold. However I live in a colder…