Posted in Cleaning, Clothing, Food, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Personal Hygiene, Utilities and Other Bills, Winter Prep, creating a pantry challenge, low-income, tagged "dog house", #2 oil, air dry, banking, blankets, comforters, coupons, discount stores, dishwasher, drafts, Dryer, electric bill, electric company, energy efficient, few dollars, fleece, Food, heat, household items, kerosene, laundry, money, oil tank, payment plan, personal hygeine, plastic, porch, programmable thermostats, quitls, sales, save, save money, save on costs, shannon buck, slippers, slowcooker, steps, stove, temperature, warm clothing, warm jammies, windows, winter, yard sales on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
(Two years old, I know. Perhaps I’ll have the opportunity to post a more updated one soon.)
Preparing for Winter
By Shannon Buck - Copyright September 2006
Winter is not far off, and we are beginning to prepare for this now at our home. These are the steps that we are taking this year. Hopefully some of the [...]
Posted in Cleaning, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, cheap, low-income, tagged Cleaning, clean, purchase, household, dollar store, supplies, coupons, shannon buck on Thursday, September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Shannon Buck - Copyright July 2007
Believe me, this happens in our household as well. I try to always have a few things on hand:
a large bottle of vinegar (The vinegar smell does not stay in the home that long. Only use a small amount with water.)
a few large boxes of baking soda
salt
dish detergent, purchased [...]
Posted in Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Goals: Save and Help, low-income, tagged tips, garden, plants, sunflower, succession planting on Friday, September 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My little garden did okay this year. I learned a lot from the experience, things that I will use when planting next year. I had planted:
strawberries
rhubarb
Jack-be-Little pumpkins
cucumber
carrots
beans
peas
cherry tomatoes
lettuce
cabbage
parsley
broccoli
Some things did not take at all: Broccoli, rhubarb, beans, strawberries.
The cabbage that I planted in one bed gre well, while the ones that I planted in the other [...]
Posted in Goals: Save and Help, free, tagged blades, free, Infinity Razor, venus razor on Sunday, August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, I purchased two of these this past spring, and already they need to be replaced. I am not happy about this. I have to send them back the entire razors to get new blades, which means that I will be paying shipping to get new ones. I might as well just go back to [...]
Posted in Food, Food Cupboard Creations, Frugally, Goals: Save and Help, low-income, tagged frugal, recipes, salad on Friday, August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Go to Frugal Recipes to find out how to create a
Yummy, Simple Salad
Happy Eating!
Shannon
Posted in Cleaning, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Reduce Reuse Recycle, free, tagged free, kitchen, dish towels, bathroom, wash cloths, rags, making rags, dish cloths, towels, hand towels on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | No Comments »
It looks like we will be needing rags again. The old ones seem to have outlived their usefulness. I have been saving new dish cloths and dish towels for when I could no longer use the old ones for kitchen use.
The old towels and cloths are very old, stained and yucky looking. I will cut [...]
Posted in Food, Goals: Save and Help, Kitchen Needs, Reduce Reuse Recycle, School Lunches, low-income, tagged lunch, Napkins, foods, school, sales, clearance, affordable, reuse, containers, yard sales, dollar stores, School Lunches, lunchboxes, silverware, thriftshops, thermos, lunch packs, cloth napkins, value of a dollar, wasteful, thrifty, landfill, waste, Reduce on Monday, August 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I know that children love those character lunchboxes. My daughters had them when they were young but, in retrospect, I would do a lot of things differently now.
First, I would buy lunch packs rather than lunchboxes. The ones with the lining to help keep things cool. They usually come with a pocket to hold silverware, [...]
Posted in Food, Food Cupboard Creations, Goals: Save and Help, cheap, tagged frugal, frugal recipes, pasta sauce, recipe on Thursday, July 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Frugal Recipes now features the pasta sauce that I have been making for the freezer. Please check it out at:
http://frugalrecipes.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/pasta-sauce/
Posted in Cleaning, Clothing, Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Reduce Reuse Recycle, cheapskate, tagged cleaning supplies, clothes, compost, curtains, donate, food cupboard, freezing, fruit, pasta sauce, reuse, soil on Thursday, July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, there is still no luck on the job front, but I am not giving up. My sister has an application in at Wal*Mart, and I still have those two in over town, and the online ones.
I will post again for childcare as well. I will leave open hours for evening shifts as well as [...]
Posted in Clothing, Goals: Save and Help, Reduce Reuse Recycle, cheap, cheapskate, free, tightwad, tagged frugal, jammies, pants, recycling, shorts, summer on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I wear stretch pants. They are not the most economical, but they are the most comfortable. I have to buy new pants every 5-6 months, because they wear out so fast (which is why they are not really economical). I refuse to wear jeans until I lose some weight. Stretch pants are more comfortable anyway.
I [...]
