As I was whipping up a batch of homemade laundry detergent, I realized that it has been a really long time since I’ve talked about making your own detergent and caring for you laundry. When I went back into my archives I saw that this post was originally written in the spring of 2006! Definitely… Keep Reading
The Best of-Ground Beef Batch Cooking
This post was originally “aired” in my second month of blogging, but still gets hits fairly regularly from folks looking for info on “batch cooking”, so I thought I’d revisit it today. Batch Cooking is a wonderful way to take advantage of sale prices on meat (frequently one of the most expensive ingredients in a… Keep Reading
The Gift Box
Well, we are heading to our first birthday party of the school year today-although undoubtably not our last! I was so happy to be able to do the frugal, and easy thing and go to my gift box (which is actually a portion of the closet under our stairs) and pull out a Doodle Bear… Keep Reading
Quick Tip-Cards
As an auxilary to the Gift Box post of the other day, I was wondering, do you all keep a selection of greeting cards on hand at your place? If you don’t, you really should! If you have to run out and buy a card at the last minute you will usually spend about $4… Keep Reading
The Gift Box aka How To Avoid Last Minute Runs to The Toy Store
Yesterday on the way home from visiting my adorable 10 day old nephew, I stopped at Aldi’s to buy some milk and bread. Aldi’s is about 30 minutes from the house, and with the price of gas already up to $3.01 here in the upstate area I decided I better stock up on a few… Keep Reading
