Waste
We’ve spent the past week packing and now unpacking, and the result is that we’re eating lots of fast food and prepared meals from the grocery store. This is not how we usually live. I’m frugal and...
View ArticleSpending Too Much Time Shopping for Food and Supplies
If you’ve read my last book or visited my website, you know that I’m a huge fan of keeping extra food, household supplies, and medicine in the house. (I call my stored supplies my stashes, and I think...
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Exercises in Frugality
R2D2, aka DAKFrugality, one of my favorite topics, continues to increase in popularity as the economy negatively affects more and more families. Some people apparently take frugal tips pretty...
View ArticleExercises in Frugality, Part 2
Hot Chocolate Mixes Living here in chilly Wisconsin, we love our hot chocolate. I usually buy big boxes of hot chocolate mix at Sam’s Club, but decided to try to save a few dollars by making my own....
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Exercises in Frugality, Part 4
Homemade Laundry Detergent I’d been meaning to make my own laundry detergent for ages. Now that I’ve done it and seen how easy it is, I can’t believe I didn’t do it sooner. Recipes for liquid laundry...
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Want to Learn How to Sew?
Just had to share this cool new book with you! I’ve been sewing since I was a kid, so I don’t need a basic how-to-sew book. But the projects in this book, as easy as can be, are also so cute that I...
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Homemade Baking Mix I was raised on Bisquick baking mix. My mom was sick a lot, so when my dad came home and found four hungry little kids waiting for dinner, he’d whip up a batch of pancakes made from...
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New Homemaking Tips
After so many years of reading homemaking tips in books and magazines, and later on at websites, I thought I’d read them all. But this week I stumbled onto two tips that I’ve never heard of, and now I...
View ArticleAnother Homemaking Tip I Should Have Thought Of
With four kids and eight nieces and nephews, we’ve wrapped a lot of Christmas and birthday gifts over the years. Wrapping big gifts and small ones leaves lots of odd-sized scraps of gift wrap, which...
View ArticleSaving Time and Money with Stashes
Gas is nearly $4.00 a gallon here in northeast Wisconsin. My husband and I are fortunate that we both work at home, so we don’t have commuting expenses. But there are still many places we have to go....
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Blast from the Past: Lovely Leftovers
Go to your wallet, take out two or three dollars and throw them out in the street. Sounds silly, but that’s what you’re doing when you pitch leftovers. Leftovers get a bad rap, but when you throw out...
View ArticleBlast from the Past: Re-using Things
When I think of the frugal habits I’ve developed over the years, one thing that stands out is being able to re-use things, i.e. to make one thing into something else. Some of that requires creativity....
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Blast from the Past: Frugal Tools: Sewing Machines
In Stitches Being able to use a sewing machine is such a gift. I learned to sew at the age of 12, and I can’t even imagine how much money it has saved me over my lifetime. I’ve made my own clothes as...
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Blast from the Past: Make Sewing Part of Homeschooling
The Sewing Class Many homeschooling moms want their children to learn to sew, but they can’t teach them because they themselves don’t know how to sew. Yes, you can all learn together, but I think the...
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