Origami Corner Bookmark
I love the idea of this bookmark. I love to read and being disabled I am not able to do the crafts I used to do. This would be something I could do and I could make them as gifts for the Holidays and for birthdays, anniversaries and other special days for family...
Tea Time - Tissue Box Tea Pot
Nice craft but it would have been better with full size patterns without the shadow of a hand on it.
Folded Christmas Tree Ornament
What a wonderful craft to make something a child would love to give to mom, dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt or Uncle or even a friend. I have to share this with my daughter who teaches in our Churchs Cubbies program in AWANA. I am sure that she and her head teacher...
Handcrafted Christmas Ornaments
I like the design of the craft but being a caner I dont use my rings for crafts. I think these would be nice if you found some smaller snowmen and used toilet paper rolls, or wrapping paper rolls. It would also be much less expensive
The Most Frugal Of All, Free Memories
My first memory is my father reading the Cleveland Plain Dealer to me every night when he came home from work. He started the day he brought me and my mother home from from the hospital. He taught me to read by the time I was 1 1/2 I was reading kiddy books...
Sherona (Chihuahua)
Your dog is cute. We have underground breading around here for designer breeds around here. They breed dogs and dont think about what the bad traits that may come out in the new breed. We have the most delightful dog who is about 13 right now. He is what we...
Princess (Chihuahua)
Your dog is so cute. I have a doxyuahua. Which is a doxhound and Chihuahua. I also have a pughuahua which is a Pug and Chihuahua. They are both small but the pug Chihuahua mix is smaller than the other dog. They are both sweet natured although the pug mix is...
Being Frugal Around My Home
I agree with the others that suggested the food stamps. You have growing children and they need their nutrition. I thank you for the hint about dog food. I will talk to the meat man at the grocery stores I shop at.
Consolidate Food to Save Pantry Space
I do that with many things. I put rice together in big containers, Macaroni, my flour. In fact just about everything I put into containers to keep it fresh.
Struggling with my Small Budget
My husband and I have a credit card that gives us money back for using it. We pay it off every month should anything happen to my husband I will pay the credit cards off and then cancel them all. I had trouble many years ago and I now have a good credit sore...
Our Throwaway Society
My younger years were not restrained but we did not waste things. Then in the late 50s my father a bricklayer hurt his back the last time and he had to leave bricklaying to work for the local school system. They say teachers dont make much money but the people...
Matching Glassware is Unnecessary
Thanks Judy: I am like you my cabinet looks like a mismatched shelf with all different sizes and shapes of glasses. My Coffee/Tea mugs looks the same. I buy them at yard sales looking for ones that will be good gifts for my husband and children also
Memories of a Thrifty Love Story
Your story reminds me of my love story of 47 years ago. We were both in the Military. I was in the Navy and he was in the U.S. Coast Guard. We met the Saturday of 1970. 2 weeks later we were Betrothed. Now in the Jewish faith a Betrothal is in many ways more...
Shave For $10 Per Year
I have always bought the disposable razors from the markdown basket at a store I shop at. They always mark them down after they have had them for about a year to a year and a half. About 10 years ago I bought my husband about 20 packages. He still has about...
Remembering Granny Rollins
I can remember my husbands Grandmother. Ma wasnt stingy but she was careful. She would buy 3 packages of mens socks at Christmas and open them and Each grown man in the family would get a pair of socks for Christmas. She would do the same for the children. The...
Remembering Granny Rollins
I can remember my husbands Grandmother. Ma wasnt stingy but she was careful. She would buy 3 packages of mens socks at Christmas and open them and Each grown man in the family would get a pair of socks for Christmas. She would do the same for the children. The...
Cake Mix Cookies
I like the recipe for quick cookies but I would use butter instead of shortening. Butter is a natural and better for you shortening where shortening is a chemical
Stretching My Meager Dollars
I am 64 and I have always used my clothing (anything) till they are no longer wearable. When they become too ragged to wear I will take the buttons, zippers and anything else I can salvage for other things and then I take and make rags for my husband to use...
20 Weeks Until Christmas
I have always bought gifts at yard sales. I look for coffee/tea cups that will speak to my family and they do the same. Being that both my husband and I are disabled Veterans we dont have a lot of money so I encourage my children to make gifts. My daughter...
Be Prepared For Lean Times
I wish I had a town 20 miles away that had a bread store, a Sams or Costco store near us. Our closest stores are 45 miles away and the Sams and Costco are 190 miles from our home. There are no bread stores their either. They have started to give the day old...
Of Misers and Motherhood
I loved your article. I was wonding if your fathers book was still available? If so would you share the information on the book so I can look for it. Sincercely Jackie S
My Frugal Life: This Is The Life of a Home Schooler
Robin: Congratulations for taking the step to homeschooling your daughter. I had not realized that Tennessee had changed the rules for homeschooling since I started to homeschool in the 80s. We moved to New Mexico in the 90s and I had not kept up with the laws...
Paper or Fabric? What Napkins Save the...
I use old washrag for cleaning up in the kitchen and do dishes. I have about 100 of these washrags that are just too small to use in the bathtub and they are just right for doing the dishes or wiping your hands. My son bought them for me in 1999 and they are...
Extreme Couponing
I dont see many hoarders when I watch Extreme Couponing. In fact I saw one man who filled his basement one day and then the next day he turned around and packed it into the local foodbanks truck and gave them everything he had. He saves very little for his...
Taya (Miniature Poodle, Papillon, Pincher)
I did not mean to be one of those who gave a cuties name to my mix breeds. That is what they were called when we adopted them. Teddy Bear (Just Bear when we got him) is the doxy/chihuahua mix and Brownie is the pug/chihuahua mix. When people ask what they are...
Designer Mutts
I have 2 Designer Mutts which were thrown away. My son got one from the breeder because it had some of the bad habits of his breeds he is a pugwawa which is pug and chihuahua, Hes a good dog but he barks a lot and people just didnt want him because of that...
Designer Mutts
I forgot to mention in my last answer that all 4 of our dogs are mixed breeds. By accident or by intent. We also had a Pooyote. She was one of the sweetest dogs you could find. But she had a lot of health problems doing with mix. She was part Mini Poodle and...
The Old Fashioned Way is the Cheaper Way
I am so glad to see someone who is willing to go back to the old ways. I have always used a clothes line even when I had load after load of diapers. Of course we have always had a drier for when the weather is incliment but we rarley use it. Another way that...
Adopting a Shelter Pet
We have always adopted shelter pets. We have never had problems getting our dogs from the pound. Right now we live in a small town and the woman who runs the pound knows everyone who lives around here and she knows which ones she can trust and those she cant...
Savings for Senior Citizens
Your idea is a great idea but because I have to be so careful with what I eat because of additives in everything from food to health and beauty aids to cleaning products. I never eat out. What we do is buy bulk when it is on sale (My husband was able to get...
