Posted in Food, School Lunches, The Autumn Holidays, tagged bake, cheese, children, frugal, pumpkin, recipe on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Visit Frugal Recipes for a Baked Cheese Pumpkin recipe that your children will love.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Food, Homeschool Frugality, Kitchen Needs, The Autumn Holidays, tagged apple, apple bars, apple crisp, apple sauce, autumn, breads, chidren homeschool, cookbooks, freezing, frugal, holidays, life skills, math, muffins, pancakes, pictures, pies, project, reading, recipes on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
This would make a frugal family or homeschool project. It will teach math, reading, life skills and more.
You would first need to do some online research about the elements you would like added to the cookbook. Some suggestions are:
table of contents
this for that information
measurement information
information on the different types of apples
classify baking apples
information on freezing apples, or [...]
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Posted in Food, Homeschool Frugality, Kitchen Needs, The Autumn Holidays, tagged , autumn holidays, breads, cookbook, freezer, freezing, harvest, homeschool, muffins, pancakes, pies, project, pumkin puree, pumpkin, pumpkin bars, roasted pumkin seeds on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
This would make a great family or homeschool project. You would first need to do some online research about the elements you would like added to the cookbook. Some suggestions are:
table of contents
this for that information
measurement information
information on the different types of pumpkin
information on making homemade pumpkin puree, by baking or boiling
information on freezing pumpkin, or the [...]
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Posted in Food, Homeschool Frugality, Kitchen Needs, The Autumn Holidays, tagged autumn holidays, breads, cakes, cookbook, freeze, freezer, freezing, muffins, recipes, zucchini on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
This would make a great family or homeschool project. You would first need to research what elements you want to add to your cookbook. Some suggestions are:
table of contents
this for that information
measurement information
information on zucchini
information on freezing zucchini, or the finished recipes
how to clean and shred the zucchini
You may also want to add a photograph [...]
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Posted in Homeschool Frugality, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Others, Personal Hygiene, Spring Holidays, Summer Holidays, The Autumn Holidays, Winter Holidays, tagged bathroom, cheaper, clearance, deal, dollar, DVD's, holidays, homeschooling, houshold, hygiene, kitchen, laundry area, livingroom, need, notebook, personal, prices, projects, resale, sales, shops, stores, want, yardsaling on Sunday, October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
This is a small notebook where we write what we want/need and regular prices. My goal is to find it cheaper by yardsaling, and shopping clearance sales and dollar stores, as well as resale shops and online shops.
There is a page for each of us, as well as a page each for DVD’s, the kitchen, [...]
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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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Posted in Decorating Frugally, Food, The Autumn Holidays, tagged muffins, savings, cost, free, maine, Raodside, freebie, pumpkin, garlic, potatoes, farmer, economy, gourds, zucchini, corn stalk, halloween, thanksgiving, pumpkin seeds on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Skye and I stopped into Dawn ’til Done on the way home Saturday. We purchased a good size pie pumpkin for $1.50, a pumpkin for Skye, and some garlic. The total was just over $3.00.
Then we stopped at a stand where a farmer was selling squash and potatoes. He was selling the potatoes in big [...]
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