I know I’m a tad late, but ABC Family is running their annual “25 days of Christmas”. Every day they play Christmas movies, from the classic Bass/Rankin claymation ones (including those you can’t find anymore like Nestor the long eared donkey, and Jack Frost), new “classics” like the Polar Express and made for TV movies…. Keep Reading
Snow Day
Today! The roads here in town aren’t so bad, but the country roads are pretty nasty. But instead of a Christmas shopping day with my girlfriend (hmmm, missing that may save me some money) the kiddos and I are going to just hang out for the day. We may try making some gingerbread cookies this… Keep Reading
Best Of-Family Traditions for Christmas-on the Cheap, Part II
Here is another installment of my “Family Christmas Traditions on the Cheap”: In Part I of Family Traditions for Christmas-On the Cheap I covered why I think traditions are important and the three ways that folks come by their traditions, A-got them from their family B-consciously decided on a tradition and C-a chance occurrence or… Keep Reading
Kid’s and Christmas Presents-or, How Not to Go Broke
The shopping madness is now truly upon us. Black Friday (and Cyber Monday-that’s a new one for me) have passed and many folks are up to their eyeballs in debt already. Buying and giving gifts is of course a big part of the Christmas season. For some folks this is a joy, and for others… Keep Reading
Best Of-Christmas After Action Report
Last year after Christmas I gave an After Action Review (also known as an AAR-want to know more about how to do one? Read “Frugal Skills, AAR“). Since with the move and all I have barely thought about Christmas, I thought this would be a good time for me to review what went wrong and… Keep Reading
Time to Think About. . . . . Christmas?
My husband’s family has hosted a “Christmas in July” party for the last 3 years. Why Christmas in July? Well, for two reasons. #1: Weather is often nasty in Upstate New York and New England (where most of Yankee Bill’s family lives) so travel is very uncertain in December. #2: The pre-Christmas season is usually… Keep Reading
Christmas After Action Review (Last Christmas Post-I Promise)
As mentioned yesterday, here is my Christmas After Action Review (AAR). I am not going to go over my entire plan-that would probably bore you all to tears. Lets just say that I had planned on doing all our Family Christmas Traditions as well as your other typical endeavors such as mailing out Christmas cards… Keep Reading
Quick Tip-Storing Christmas Clothes
Just wanted to post this while I was thinking of it! This is more an organizational tip rather than a money saver per say-last year I decided to pack away my Christmas themed clothing and table linens with my actual Christmas decorations. It worked like a charm. Instead of getting buried at the back of… Keep Reading
Frugal Skill-After Action Review
I don’t know about you, but in my household planning, revving up for and executing the entire holiday season somewhat resembled a military operation. There were lots of moving parts. There were different folks with different missions (mostly Yankee Bill and I at this point, although Cici, Nana and others had their missions as well)… Keep Reading
Quick Post Christmas Tip
Busy Busy Busy here, but wanted to write something so you’d all know I was still around! Something we did- If you’ve got so many toys that the little ones haven’t even gotten around to playing with some of them yet, you may consider this. Put them away. That’s right-hide them. I took the tinker… Keep Reading
