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Family
Ultimate Family Christmas Advent Bucket List: Festive and Fun
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…
The Frugal Homemaker Holiday Planning Guide
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…
Shoestring Budget Thanksgiving Movie Night
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…
Homeschooling
25 Fun Homeschool Activities for St. Patrick’s Day
25 St. Patrick’s Day homeschool activities is filled with fun, creative activities to help engage kids in the holiday. St. Patricks Day is open to many fun ideas’. Imaginations run wild with the thought of a leprechaun scampering about creating havoc. At least that is what happens in our home. Most of the day my…
Easy Recycling Games for Homeschool
Good habits can be taught to children through homeschool games, and fun learning. My favorite thing to do is come up with new games and ways to practice a habit. One of my son’s has overheard me speaking about all of the litter that I have seen laying around our city. Everywhere we look businesses,…
How To Have A Clean House And Homeschool
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…
Homeschool Manipulative and Supply Organization
Homeschool supply and manipulative organization allows the year to start off right. Kids lose focus when moms are searching for what they need. Each time that I would sit down with my third grader (last year), suddenly I would need something to make a point. Searching costs time when teaching. Start the year ahead. Baskets,…
Homemaking
Weekend Activities to Teach Kids How to Save Money
*******This post does have affiliate links that support my family should you choose to use them. Weekend activities for our family of five get expensive. Right now we want to teach our kids how to have fun without spending money. It is easy to get caught up in the money traps of fun activities. Trampoline…
5 Ways Frugal Moms Can Find Money for Vacation
****Amazon links inside post. Frugal moms can make extra money this summer with a great side hustle. Not only that, but with these side hustles the kids’ can be involved! As we declutter our homes, there are ways to make money with excess. Extra income never hurts anyone. Frugal moms are already busy with budgeting,…
Money Smart Homemaking: Build Income Streams While You Stay at Home
Creative Income Streams Creative frugal moms can turn their gifts into an income source. Besides Etsy which is a great place to start a store and bring in a residual income, there are other opportunities. Another big online name is Teachers Pay Teachers. Both of these online avenues are available to start up stores, promote…
How to Lower Laundry Costs Without Fewer Loads
In America, almost every family is trying to figure out how to lower laundry costs. Nobody thinks of doing fewer loads because that would cause a buildup. Laundry is a daily chore just like doing the dishes. Each chore has its time during the day to complete. If you do one load of dishes a…
Lifestyle
Why Our Family Eats Leftovers (and Why we Love It)
Not every family eats leftovers. Ok, for me this was an astounding fact. I thought that leftovers were just a natural given for every family. Then I went to visit my friend and they do not eat leftovers. Eating leftovers saves so much money. Let me show you how: If the average…
How to Start a Grocery Delivery Business from Home
Starting a frugal moms grocery delivery service has never been easier. Now is the best time to get started in this up and coming new market. People are busy and have no time for grocery shopping. Starting this new service as second income, or growth into a larger business is up to how much time…
Basic Laundry Tips for Frugal Homemakers
Frugal home laundry tips is a stepping stone to ways that laundry saves us money. Laundry is a chore, but if done well the savings adds up. Everyone has laundry everyday. We have more laundry than mother’s of the past. We are blessed as a nation in many ways with the ability to go buy…
Frugal Cloth Diaper Care: Simple Homemade Recipe
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…