Use what you have, get creative and save!
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and see what life really was like back in my parent’s and grandparents day. I’ll drive through a small rural town with it’s shuttered storefronts and sleepy feeling and try to imagine what it must have been like back when each community had it’s own small… Keep Reading
How come kids come home from school starving every day? I swear I make them eat breakfast before they head out in the morning and then they really do have a packed lunch. Somehow the refrian still is when they come thundering in the back door “Mom! Is there anything to eat?”. Walmart asked me,… Keep Reading
Here at the Frugal Village Homestead we handle car purchases one of two ways. 1) We buy a new car and keep it for a long, long time or 2) We buy a good condition used car. Yankee Bill’s philosophy is that if you add up all the repair costs you spend in a year,… Keep Reading
I love creative challenges–so you know I was all over it when Rustoleum and Walmart asked me if I wanted to participate in a “Mystery Box” campaign as part of the Walmart Moms. They offered to send each of us random items that we were to transform using Rustoleum paints and/or stains. How much fun… Keep Reading
