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Last night it was brought to my attention that blogger wasn't allowing most people to comment, making it difficult to enter the giveaway...

How to Save Money on Healthcare

These days health care costs are a big deal. So many people have overwhelming financial struggles because of their health care bills. As a n...

Saving Is An Attitude

There were a couple things that I considered writing about for today, but they didn't work out. And I can do internet searches and find ...

To Buy or Not To Buy A House

Buying a home is a huge deal, and there is something very satisfying about having a place to call your own. Plus there are supposedly variou...

Book Review- Pay It Down! From Debt To Wealth On $10 A Day

In lieu of America Saves Week, every post this week is in regards to saving money. Here is this week's book review: Pay It Down! From De...

Savings Week- 10 Tips to Save and Cut Expenses

This year's America Saves Week is February 21-28. Yesterday's newspaper (both the Des News and the SL Trib) had this great list of w...

RSV- What it is and what you need to know about it

RSV stands for respiratory syncytial virus and is most common reason for infant hospital admission. (Although metapneumo virus or MPV will ...

Giveaway- I Dare You To Eat It

Hey readers (and anyone else who just stumbled across my blog) I'm having a giveaway. I am giving away a copy of I Dare You To Eat It by...

Book Review-The Essential Food Storage Cookbook

I love getting new cookbooks, or even rediscovering old ones. They can help pull you out of a cooking rut. And yes, really you can find almo...

Kitchen Experiment- Chicken Tabouleh Salad

The recipe for this Middle Eastern dish came from Brown Bag Success . It was not a big hit in our house, even after I made my own alteration...

How to Survive Road Trips with Small Children

As our closest family is four hours away, I have mastered the art of a successful road trip, and have had many an unsuccessful road trip als...

Valentine's Day on the Cheap

 This year for V-day I made beef jerky for my beloved. He will know this truly a sign of my love because I HATE touching raw meat, which is ...

The Pantry Challenge

 Recently I stumbled across a blog called Money Saving Mom as she was discussing her pantry challenge for the month of January. It sounded ...

Book Review- Brown Bag Success

While working on a project that I will talk more about later, I came across a cookbook in my cupboard that I had never actually tried. It...

Help fo Haiti Part 3- Hygiene Kits

In my last post in reference to Haiti I mentioned humanitarian kits. Here's the instructions to make a hygiene kit: Place the following ...

Things to do with a slice of bread (besides eat it)

About 8 months ago I started reading Reader's Digest's Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things: 2,317 Ways to Save Money and Time . ...

Where I shop for children's clothing

On a several occasions I have been asked where and how I get such good deals on children's clothing. Here's the breakdown: Online: (...

Laughter- The best way to deal with stress

Laughter is one of the things that makes life worth living. And I find that I am less stress if I can find a reason to laugh about a situati...

Upromise- start saving for your children's college without having to think about it

Previously I gave a list of websites that I use to save money, but I didn't go into a lot of detail on each. So I'll expand on them ...

My latest way to sneak veggies to my children

If you're like me and many other moms, you struggle to get your kids to eat veggies. (Click here for my favorite means of sneaking it t...

Book Review-I Will Teach You To Be Rich

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi I recommend this book to everyone . Especially anyone under forty who wants to know more about ...