Archive | Being Frugal

19 October 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Make Your Own Funnel Cakes: Frugal Recipe for Large Families

Tweet Our family enjoys going to our town’s fair each year, but being a one income, large family with 6 kids, we rarely let everyone indulge in the food that they sell.  If we did, we could easily spend A LOT of money in one evening.  Instead, we figured out how to make funnel cakes at [...]

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16 October 2011 ~ 9 Comments

Do-It-Yourself Wedding Present

Tweet We were invited to a wedding reception of a “kid” that I’ve known from our homeschool group for several years.  He’s also been helping to instruct my children in karate for a couple of years.  When we decided to go to the reception, I knew exactly what I wanted to make as their wedding [...]

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11 October 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Baby Name Blocks – Tutorial for Baby Gift

TweetWhen my friend Amy, gave birth to her 7th child, Garin, I decided it was time to try my hand at crafting a baby gift, rather than my old standby of diapers, wipes and/or baby clothes.  Not only was it a more one of a kind gift, but more from the heart as well!  What You’ll [...]

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08 October 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Swapping Goods on Facebook

TweetHow to Have Access to Classified Ads closer to home.  We live in a small town of about 9,000 people and don’t have our own Craigslist location local to us.  The Craigslist that we do have is for the whole corner of our state.  Things are usually at least an hour away from us and [...]

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