As adults, it becomes hard to use pencils once they have been sharpened too many times. They are too small for our hands to comfortable handle.
Does this mean that we must throw them out? Of course not! We can pass them along to young children. They have smaller hands than us, so they can still [...]
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What to do with Small Pencils
Posted in Goals: Save and Help, Homeschool Frugality, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged children, pencils, recycle, reuse on Friday, April 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Making New Crayons
Posted in Homeschool Frugality, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged broken, crayons, gifts, new, reuse on Thursday, April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Be sure that you are saving all of those broken crayons. Take the paper off and reuse them to make new crayons. These make great gifts.
You can use muffin tins, or baking pans with small, decorative sections.
Simply spray each section with nonstick spray, and place the crayon bits in them. Then melt in the oven [...]
Homeschooling: Saving Money on Materials and Supplies
Posted in Homeschool Frugality, Low-Income, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged homeschool, materials, money, saving, single mothers, supplies on Sunday, November 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently published an article on my Single Mom blog called Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 5: Saving Money on Materials and Supplies that you may enjoy. The article is one in a continuously growing series on homeschooling. Even if you are not a single mother, you will find each of the articles useful. To read the [...]
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 [...]
100 Things About Me #3: Low-Income Style
Posted in 100 Things About Me, Cheap, Homeschool Frugality, Low-Income, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged 100 Things About Me, book, landfill, Low-Income, stores, treasures, used, vacation on Monday, September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
#3 I love used book stores.
Even when I am on vacation in Salem, Mass., I go to a used book store. It amazes me the treasures that are found in these places. Books of all types at affordable places. Another beauty of the situation is that people didn’t throw these treasures into landfills. They are [...]
Feeling Blessed
Posted in Food, Food Cupboard Creations, Free, Homeschool Frugality, Low-Income, tagged donated, Food, food pantry, Free on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been the recipient of a few things this past week. Twice, a friend has given me cucumbers, and another time she gave me tomatoes as well. She also brought us over 2 cans soup, 1 sea salt grinder, 1 garlic sea salt grinder, and 1 bag dried beans.
Her husband purchased too many report covers, [...]
Freebies for Homeschoolers
Posted in Homeschool Frugality, tagged book-it, freebies, homeschool, old schoolhouse magazine, pizza Hut on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
1. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/brite00eyes/575659/ Win a year of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine- Digital Edition!!!
2. http://www.bookitprogram.com/enrollment/individual_hs.asp Book-It Program through Pizza hut offers homeschooled children a personal pan pizza free each month for participating.
Hope these are helpful!
Shannon
Wal*Mart Deals
Posted in Cheapskate, Clothing, Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, tagged bulk, caryons, Cheap, Deals, frugal, homeschool, messenger bag, notebooks, paper, prices, socks, tips, toilet paper, Wal*Mart on Sunday, July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While at Wal*Mart with a friend yesterday, I noticed that they were selling 1 subject notebooks for 5 cents each. I picked up $1.00 worth. I also picked up 4 packets of loose-leaf paper for 50 cents each. These are very much needed for our homeschool year. I also picked up a box of crayons [...]
Ways I Reuse Every Day Items
Posted in Cleaning, Food, Gardening & Yard Work, Goals: Save and Help, Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged baggies, binders, blankets, business, canvas bags, daycare, envelopes, environment, flower pots, Food, Frugally, gas, greening, homes, homeschool, household, Jars, jugs, low-flow shower head, milk, money, money savings, newspaper, plastic bags, plastic containers, programmable thermostat, rags, reuse, save, saving, scrap paper, shower curtain, toothbrush, utensils on Sunday, June 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are many ways in which we can all live more frugally while saving our environment. Greening our homes does not have to cost megabucks up front. We can take our time to learn, which will provide us with money savings down the road. With the money that we save, we can purchase helpful items [...]
