Less than 3 months until Christmas. Can you believe it? If you are strapped for cash this holiday season, I have put together some ways that you can have extra cash. Christmas can get expensive! These are simple ways to either earn or save cash this holiday season. Who can't use extra cash? 20 Ways to Make Extra Cash Sell or consign old clothes. (At our local consignment store we can use our credit to buy new items in the boutique section.) Sell DVDs you are no longer watching Sell your … [Read more...]
Meal Planning Made Easy
Thank you to McCain Foods for sponsoring today's post. Do you meal plan? While we are at home in Washington we don't meal plan very well. Our life is busy and we just don't eat meals at home as often as I'd like. But when we are traveling on the road for my husband's job, 8 months out of the year, we meal plan. We are only in one location for about 5 weeks and we plan each week what meals we want to eat and make grocery lists based on those meals. This way, we don't have a lot of extra food … [Read more...]
Back to School Shopping Plan
Is it hard to believe that it is August already? The back to school season is here and we are all inundated with Back to School sales. The commercials on television, the internet, and radio all tell us where we should shop and how much we will save. The weekly store circulars are showing great deals and cute buys that we cannot pass up. (I mean when things are 1 penny or ten cents how do we pass it up?) Though we are simply doing homeschool PreK this year we still love to stock … [Read more...]
Frugal Traveling
We are hosting family, my sister in law and her husband and four children, this week in our corner of the country. It is always nice to have family come in the summer. This is their first stop on a summer RV tour. Their dream - bucket list, so to speak - was to buy an RV and travel around the country. They made that dream happen! We travel in our family eight months out of the year for my husband's work so though traveling across the country in an RV isn't on our travel bucket list, we still … [Read more...]
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Couponing
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Couponing includes: Understanding couponing basics Tips on finding and cashing in on coupons Advice on multiple savings offers, money-back coupons, and rewards programs The latest info on deal-of-the-day sites, rebates, and other online coupon options How to best plan and organize coupons The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing Review: In 2008, I was staying at home with a new baby, and I realized I missed work. Don't get me wrong, taking care of a … [Read more...]
7 Great Tips for Real Life
During the seminar I am my husband’s secretary. When people write down their prayer requests and put them in the large prayer request basket, I am the one who types them up. We always have a prayer team that prays over each of them. But while I am typing them up, I am also praying for that person’s prayer request. I have said this many times before, but I need to keep reminding myself: people have a lot of real issues going on in their life, many are hanging just by a thread and when I am … [Read more...]
Frugal Christmas Tip: Baking Gifts
Frugal Christmas Tip: My favorite frugal Christmas tip is to bake your friends and family treats instead of buying them a Christmas present. It can save you money and it is more personal - isn't that a great frugal Christmas tip? Plus, most people don't "need" more stuff in their house. Baked treats, like Christmas cookies, can be enjoyed by the whole family. Once they are eaten, they are gone, not cluttering the house. This year I made chocolate chip cookies dipped in vanilla almond … [Read more...]
