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How Will You Entertain Your Older Kids When The Power Goes Out?

How Will You Entertain Your Older Kids When The Power Goes Out?

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Let’s face a fact: most kids are very happy playing with something that is electronic. They would play them all the time if they could. I know the pain of that statement because I had a preteen son who was the same way.I worried about how he would entertain himself if the power went out and the batteries on his Nintendo 3DS died. I worried about how my two daughters at home would entertain themselves without cell phones, computers, Kindles,…

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Monthly Frugal and Homesteading Update – August/September

Monthly Frugal and Homesteading Update – August/September

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August is in the books! Yeah! The kids went back to school on the 20th and we have settled very quickly back into a routine. School was a bit more expensive this year to enroll. In the past six years, we have qualified for free lunches which also qualifies us for free registration. While I do not care for the program, it did give me some breathing room in the budget and it does help the schools out a lot…

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Make Your Own Face and Eye Cream

Make Your Own Face and Eye Cream

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One of those areas I haven’t given up my vanity on is my face. I don’t wear a lot of cosmetics, just concealer and mascara. After I get out of the shower, I put on clear lip balm to keep them from chapping. Then I put on eye and face cream. I ran out one morning and decided to go to the store to buy some more on my lunch break. What I saw just about made me lose my…

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Monthly Frugal and Homesteading Update

Monthly Frugal and Homesteading Update

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This month has been a bit busy and my mind has been going in a different direction. July has been a no spend month. I was very unintentional about it, but the budget demanded it. The budget is going to demand it for August also so no spending unless necessary. The great thing about having a no spend month in the summer is that my garden and everyone else’s garden has been exploding with goodness! My garden was being a…

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Want To Save Money? Start Gleaning!

Want To Save Money? Start Gleaning!

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Gleaning is one of my favorite ways to save money! Gleaning helps supply our food stores, gives me more to can, and helps food not go to waste. Gleaning is responsible and helps one to be sustainable as well as economical. But what is gleaning? Gleaning is gathering and collecting food from a field or a garden after someone else has harvested what they wanted. Historically, people would go into the fields after farmers were done harvesting and collect any…

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Tuesday Homesteading and Frugal Update

Tuesday Homesteading and Frugal Update

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The garden is growing! The garden is growing! And so are the weeds… I have been weeding almost every night and have decided that I need to go back to my original plan of weed blocking material and straw/hay to control the weeds. I didn’t really want to, but the weeds are growing as fast as the vegetables. With weeding all the time, I am not getting much else done like canning strawberry jam! Typical gardener issues, I know. We…

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