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Category Archives: living on a shoestring

Announcing EcoBrain!

17-Jun-08

EcoBrain is a new site for digital downloads offers a freebie (and paper free!) book of the week. EcoBrain focuses on educating people of all ages about the environment. EcoBrain offers titles about cooking, green architecture, composting, farming, gardening, environmental science and kids books too. Visit EcoBrain.com this week and download “The Monkey Thief,” by [...]

Mother’s Day bargain

12-May-08

Mother’s Day bargain at the Grocery Store We had Kroger Private Selection’s Stone Fired Spinach Pizza for Mother’s Day dinner last night. I liked it. However I found the dough to be a bit dry, but that could be due to my oven or how long we cooked it for. Regularly priced each pizza costs [...]

Freebies at Wal-Mart on Earth Day

03-Apr-08

As part of Earth Month 2008, Wal-Mart will be giving away a million custom-made reusable shopping bags on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 8:00am Local Time.* Plastic bags can take as long as 1,000 years to degrade. If you miss out on the free reusable shopping bag, don’t panic. Wal-Mart sells their reusable shopping bags [...]

Grocery Relief & Help Your Neighbor

24-Jan-08

Angel Food Ministries is a non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to providing grocery relief to communities throughout the United States. Angel Food Ministries also participates in the U.S. Food Stamp program, using the Off-Line Food Stamp Voucher system. This is also a great way to help out our senior citizen neighbors. Please visit their site for [...]

Frugal Household Ideas

20-Jan-08

I found this list and wondered if anyone tried the following and found them to be true or false. 1. Mayonnaise – will KILL LICE; it will also condition your hair 2. Elmers Glue – paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off dead skin and blackheads 3. Shiny Hair – use brewed [...]

Couponing

20-Jan-08

My aunt sends me lots of coupons. Gotta love it! Anyway, since we’ve moved and most things are in storage (I won’t be able to get to them or find them until the Spring Thaw) and don’t have my coupon box (something My Mother made a long time ago – I’ll post pictures when I [...]

Getting Organized: Storage

01-Jan-08

Decorative Container Ideas such as craft-supply holders and plastic-bag dispensers can be inexpensively made using detergent & cracker boxes.

Common Household Appliance Energy Use

01-Jan-08

Listed at this website are some common appliances, their wattage and an estimate of operating costs. There is also a simple formula for calculating operating costs. Note: I do not know how current that website is.

A game I’m working on

13-Jun-05

I’m working on a science game about simple machines. I’m just getting pictures together now. It will be a spinner path game. Hoping to have it done by tomorrow.

Auto Schooling

12-Sep-04

Since we are going to be on the road for quite a while, we are taking our GeoSafari Laptop, Math Shark – an electronic math game, poetry magnets, jazz and classical music cd’s, homemade sandwiches, bagged snacks and bottled water. For me there seems to be times especially when traveling that I do not do [...]




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