If your kids are anything like mine, they love to take part in crafts. Painting, gluing, cutting paper, they love it! But sometimes craft time can get crazy expensive. Especially when the craft isn't kept exactly to the scope of the original project. And let's be honest, kids do love to go a little … [Read more...]
Building a Bountiful Gift Closet on a Budget
Who doesn't love a good celebration? In the U.S and around the world we like to find any reason we can to celebrate. We celebrate engagements, wedding nuptials, anniversaries, arrival of babies, christenings, birthdays, graduations, moving into a new home, retirements, mother's, father's, … [Read more...]
15 Unusual Dental Floss Uses
Everyone knows what dental floss is used for, but if you're living a frugal lifestyle you know that it does so much more. This thin little string can do some stuff that will make life a little easier. Currently I have over 20 packages of dental floss sitting in my cupboard. A couple of weeks … [Read more...]
24 Uses for Baby Oil
The original use for baby oil was to moisturize babies' delicate skin after bathing. However, over the years our ingenious grandmothers discovered many frugal uses for this common household product. One way that I have used baby oil over the years has been on all of the leather and plastic parts in … [Read more...]
Household Tips: 30 Unusual Uses for Baby Powder (WWII Series)
I don't know what exactly triggered the idea to do a WWII post on Baby Powder, but when I sent out the call to family and friends I was pleasantly surprised at how useful this little bottle can be. We were able to come up with a list of 30 Frugal Living Tips from WWII. Who would have thought that a … [Read more...]
Household Tips: 35 Unusual Uses for Coca-Cola (WWII Series)
If you've been following this series you know that it is dedicated to my grandmother and the wonderful household tips journal that she put together during WWII. Throughout this series I've learned so much about what kind of a woman she was, I wish that I had known her personally. Unfortunately she … [Read more...]
Household Tips: 32 Unusual Uses for Nail Polish (WWII Series)
I think that I have just about every color in the rainbow of nail polish colors. The funny thing is, I hardly ever wear it because of all of the crafting, remodeling and refinishing that I do. It's really hard to keep your nails looking nice with all that. However, my 2 year old glambaby loves it, … [Read more...]
21 Unique Ways to Use Bread
Fluster: Wasted bread One of my major flusters is when I spend my money on something and it doesn't get used, it's money down the drain as my mom used to say. When we were growing up we didn't have much and every dollar that was spent had to have significant value. There was no waste and if there … [Read more...]