Posted in Decorating Frugally, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Winter Holidays, tagged cheapskate, treasures, yard-sale on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
There was a benefit yard sale here in town last weekend. I went and spent $8.oo on:
$2.00 on 2 handcrafted angel pins for charity
.50 for a brand new stationary set
$2.00 on a holiday quilt that looks brand new and hand made
$1.00 on a cast iron baking pan with mini snowmen (will be great for my [...]
Posted in Decorating Frugally, Others, tagged good buys, yardsales on Monday, June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday I decided to spend some time walking around town. I stopped into a couple of yardsales where I found a few good buys:
A novel for 15 cents
A holiday towel, oven mitt and pot holder set for 50 cents
A fabric wall hanging (How to Build a Snowman) for $1.00
A bright orange tote for my daughter [...]
Posted in Clothing, Decorating Frugally, Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Winter Holidays, tagged Clothing, save, prices, frugal, money, free, yard-sale, home, clearance, holiday, thrift shop, shopping, gifts, buy, cheapskate, bargain on Friday, May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Today was a good day for me. I was being my frugal self, and needed to procure some things for my home and the upcoming holiday season. After taking the children up on the bike path to collect samples from the pond to look at under the microscope (which was, by the way, a free [...]
Posted in Decorating Frugally, Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Personal Hygiene, tagged free, school, need, neighbors, help, first apartment, give away, kids, young adults, supplies on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
You may remember that I had been helping out the neighbors off an on this past winter. They have been sending me home with many things. At first I was doing this for free, but they have insisted on paying me since Christmas. I can use the money, so I am not complaining.
However, this a [...]
Posted in Clothing, Decorating Frugally, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Spring Holidays, Summer Holidays, Taking Care of Baby, The Autumn Holidays, Winter Holidays, tagged baby clothes, blinds, cases, clothes, Clothing, coasters, curtains, doilies, dollar store, drapes, fabric, Frugally, garage sale, holiday, homemade, jeans, old, ornments, oven mitts, pillow shams, place mats, pot holders, projects, purses, quilting, quilts, runners, stockings, table, thrift shop, tote bag, tree skirts, yard-sale on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well, I don’t have a pattern as I have not quilted anything yet. My sister is quilting using our father’s clothes and store bought fabric. Our father passed away a year-and-a-half ago, and she is making us memory pieces.
I was thinking that we could do different things with old clothes, and here are some ideas [...]
Posted in Clothing, Decorating Frugally, Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Taking Care of Baby, tagged frugal, children, homemade, clothes, decorate, baby, purses, curtains, pillow cases, sheets, rooms, mittens, scarves, hats, sweaters, fleece, valances, baby sheets, tee shirts, night shirts, jean pockets on Monday, January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are frugal things that you can do with old clothes, sheets, pillow cases and other items that will help you more cheaply decorate baby rooms, and young children’s rooms, as well as to help clothe them.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
* Homemade mittens, scarves and hats from your old sweaters and fleece [...]
Posted in Clothing, Decorating Frugally, Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Others, Spring Holidays, Summer Holidays, The Autumn Holidays, Winter Holidays, tagged boys, celebration, Christmas, clearance, decorations, giftwrap, holidays, New Year's Eve, patrick's, prices, st, tags, thanksgiving, tissue, valentines on Thursday, January 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Now is a great time to purchase clearance items for 50%-75% off their regular prices for both Christmas and Thanksgiving. These items can help you out a lot when next years holidays roll around.
What to look for:
gift-wrap, boxes and bags (Plain Red: Also good for Valentines Day, birthdays. Plain Green: Also good for St. Patrick’s [...]
Posted in Decorating Frugally, The Autumn Holidays, tagged , american, bale, baskets, candle, cheap, corn stalk, decorate, decorations, gourds, halloween, hay, ideas, native, pilgrim, pumpkin, savings, scarecrow, thanksgiving, turkey on Monday, November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Today, as we were leaving the trailer, I told my daughter that our porch looks naked. She had taken down all of the Halloween decorations, and my other daughter put the outdoor furniture, in the shed over the weekend. We were both in agreement that I should decorate the porch area again.
How can we decorate [...]
Posted in Decorating Frugally, Food, Kitchen Needs, tagged bake, beans, breads, candle, chili, cookies, freeze, muffins, pancakes, pies, pumkin bars, pumpkin, puree, roasted pumkin seeds, soup, soup base on Friday, October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Some of you may be wondering what to do with your pumpkins once you have them. In fact, there are many things that you can do with them, even after the autumn holidays are over.
We carve some, but not all, of our pumpkins. This year, we are going to try our hand at roasting the [...]
Posted in Decorating Frugally, The Autumn Holidays, tagged save, money, homemade, cheap, gourds, autumn holidays, decorating, pumkin, corn stalks, straw bales, jack o' lanterns, baskets, cornucopia, yard, porch, table, autumn leaves, clearance sales, sales on Friday, October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
There are a few things that you can do to decorate for the autumn holidays, without spending a lot of money. You can decorate your yard, porch and table quite frugally, as a matter of fact.
At this time, Rite Aid is having 50% off sales. You can also visit the dollar stores. My favorite thing [...]
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