I have a collection of old canning jars, as well as an assortment of food jars with lids. I also have many plastic food storage containers.
I have been rethinking many things over the past year, and the use of plastic is only one of those things.
I am giving away the plastic food containers to use [...]
Archive for the ‘Free’ Category
Reuse Glass Jars
Posted in Cheap, Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Free, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged containers, Food, Free, glass, Jars, plastic, reuse on Friday, June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Free Bread!
Posted in Food, Free, Low-Income, tagged bread, Free, savings on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, you read that right. I went to a friends WIC appointment with her to help her out with the children. While I was there, I was given two loaves of 100% whole wheat bread, and one package of 100% whole wheat and honey English muffins.
That is a savings of more than $7.00.
Shannon
Returnables
Posted in Free, Others, tagged funds, returnables on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I was curious as to how many of you pick up returnables when you notice them when you are out and about.
If so, what do you use the funds for?
Shannon
A Project and a Recipe
Posted in Cheap, Free, Frugally, Goals: Save and Help, Reduce Reuse Recycle, Winter Holidays on Saturday, December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hope you are all doing well.
One of the things that I did for the holidays was make tied-fleece pillows for my nieces. They loved the pillows, even though they were made from recycled materials. The gifts went over well. I did not have to pay anything to make these.
Yesterday, I had some Christmas leftovers to [...]
More Good Deals
Posted in Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Free, Low-Income, Personal Hygiene, tagged coupons, Deals, Family Dollar, IGA, sales, stocking up, taxes on Monday, November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I did a little more stocking up on things today. All items were either on sale, or came from the Family Dollar. I also used coupons for each item.
Family Dollar:
Most of these items used to be $1.00 here, but are now up to $1.10 to $1.25. The prices after coupon still came in at under [...]
Easy, Free Holiday Gifts
Posted in Cheap, Free, Reduce Reuse Recycle, Winter Holidays, tagged easy, fleece, Free, gifts, holiday, pillows, Reduce, reuse on Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I will be posting pictures of the pillows that my nephew and I are making. I have three child size tied fleece throw blankets that we no longer need, so we are going to turn them into throw pillows for my nieces. I have tons of fluff that we can use to fill them with, [...]
Furthering Our Educations
Posted in Cheap, Free, Low-Income, tagged Free, Low-Income, ASPIRE, diploma, education, care courses, writing courses, correspondence courses, pel grants, Financial Aid, ECHO classes, Add new tag on Saturday, November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(From the Site)
As a writer, I have found free writing courses online. Anything from FREE – $40.00 is usually reasonable.
Correspondence courses through the mail allow you to pay so much a month. Make sure the courses are accredited.
The ASPIRE Program (at The Department of Health and Human Services) should be able to help you with [...]
The Welfare Myth Part 2: Stretching the TANF Dollars
Posted in Cheap, Clothing, Food, Free, Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Low-Income, School Lunches, Utilities and Other Bills, tagged Angel Trees, ASPIRE, bills, cable, car repairs, child support, childcare, Christmas, churches, city hall, clearance, college, consignment shops, Department of Health and Human Services, dollar store, Ebay.com, electricity, expensive, flea markets, Food, foodstamps, free lunch, free milk, free winter boots, freebies, freecycle, fuel assistance, gas, goal, Hannaford, heap, heat, homeschool, housing, Low-Income, maine, MaineCare, money, payment plan, phone, raise children, rent, satellite, school, section 8, sewer, shannon buck, single mom, TANF, television, textbooks, The Salvation Army, thermostat, thrift shops, town hall, utilities, water, welfare, welfare myth, winter coats, work, yard sales on Sunday, September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Shannon Buck ~ © September 2007
As I mentioned in The Welfare Myth Part 1, it is a myth that welfare recipients have a lot of money to live off. Most welfare recipients really have little money for day to day expenses, once they have paid the bills. That is, if they can pay all [...]
No Money for Gas (Oh my!)
Posted in Cheap, Free, Health, Low-Income, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged 00 steps, 10, activity, adult, america, children, gas, gas money, goal, mile, money, overweight, save, walking on Thursday, September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Shannon Buck – Copyright July 2007
Well, they say that America is overweight, so this will certainly help some of us with that problem, including me. On average, each adult should be getting about 10,000 steps each and every day. How many of us actually do that? I rarely ever do. Children are supposed to [...]
Updating this Blog, Sort Of
Posted in Free, Frugally, Low-Income, Utilities and Other Bills, tagged blog, Free, pages, traffic, website on Thursday, September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You will notice that I am adding content to this blog today, and that it is not really “new” content.
What I am doing is getting rid of the website that goes with this blog, but I do not want to lose in information, as it will still help others. Instead, I will be posting the [...]
