Stop! Before you buy what the stores say is the latest item, watch your little girl at play…an old pillow becomes a doll bed, school is set up with stray pieces of paper and an old white board, and the doll (her student) is dressed in mismatched clothes… Does she really need the most expensive […]
Homemade Christmas Gifts for Kids
Christmas gifts don’t have to be expensive to be meaningful and fun. Homemade gifts provide fun memories and don’t hurt your pocketbook. This post’s purpose is to get your creative juices flowing and help you think of gifts to make for your kids. Here is an idea list: (If you would like more information on […]
Homemade Bean Bag Bocce
“Mom, what can we do?” With freezing temperatures and the sun setting early…what should kids do for fun? (The answer is not play a video game. 🙂 ) The answer is to try playing Bean Bag Bocce! This is an excellent family game for cold winter nights! Each player gets two matching bean bags that […]
Thrifty Idea: Mascara –More for Less
“Mom, I need mascara again.” It feels like every time I go to the store the list contains “mascara.” I am frugal to the core so it got me thinking. How can we stretch the mascara dollars a little further? My daughters love volumizing mascara. The brush is awesome, but the amount in the container […]
Five Steps to Reduce School Paper Stacks
Divide and Conquer! First sort the papers into three stacks— Papers no longer needed (Don’t throw away the trash pile yet…there is another use for it.) Papers to “Keep” Papers/projects you’d like to keep, but they are a weird size. Now, here we go! First, get an expandable binder for the “keep” pile. Make a […]
Puzzle-ing Mac-n-Cheese
“When will lunch be ready?” Kids have a hard time waiting. It is a tradition at our house to begin making Mac-n-Cheese and then use the box to create a puzzle. You simply cut off the front of the box. Then cut it into puzzle pieces that fit your child’s ability—whether it is three pieces […]