A Fun Family Frugal Blog
Did you ever think about how clean your washing machine is once it is DONE cleaning your clothes? No? Perhaps your should. I clean my washing machine about once a month. Just to clean out any soap residue, mold that might be starting from lack of air circulation and give the machine a good sanitation. [...]
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Step 1. Soak your peas so they rehydrate. This will give them a jump start on germinating. Don’t use hot water. You are trying to rehydrate them, not cook them. Step 2. Loosen the dirt where your peas will be planted. Step 3. Dig a ‘trench’ 1″ deep. This can be done with a a hand trowel or [...]
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I saw THIS post on pinterst on how to make a polka-dot cake. It looks SOO COOL. But once I read the instructions I read that ‘you needed a cake pop pan.’ Boo. I don’t own a cake pop pan. Plus this might be the only time I would be making this type of cake. I was not about to go out [...]
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This past weekend we celebrated my mothers’ birthday. She now has 4 grand children and all she really wanted was to have them around her on her birthday. We had the traditional birthday dinner of pulled pork (super simple…pork butt in a crock pot with 1/2 bottle of BBQ sauce over top on low for [...]
St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. I love Pinterest for ideas, recipes, and inspiration in general. I spent some time over on Pinterest and put together some of my favorite pins for St. Patrick’s Day on one board. here is a sneak peak of what you will find over on the board. Want [...]
This post started a week ago when my husband come home from a meeting just raving about a peanut butter and chocolate bar that was served. “It was cake but it was a bar but it had a chocolate layer….and they were still warm.” So being the wife who wants to please I texted my [...]
It is still the dead of winter in the north east and I have spring fever. I am longing to feel the sun on my face and the fresh grass between my toes. I want to hear the birds tweeting through my open window and smell the fragrance of flowers perfuming the air. I want [...]
I am in love with Pinterest. I have not met a woman and in some cases, men, who has not had the same sentiment. It is a wonderland of information, images, recipes, DIY, and silliness. I have wasted spent so much time over at Pinterest it is not even funny. I use to waste spend [...]
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A few weekends ago my family and I were visiting friends and we ventured to the Virginia Wine & Garlic Festival. Garlic? Wine? In the same festival? Yes please. We couldn’t walk away with out a few bulbs of garlic to plant when we got home. I have never grown garlic before and had always [...]
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I hate to clean. There. I said it. There is so much more to do in life than clean! Cook, garden, play with the kids, read books, go shopping, visit friends, save the whales, walk a dog I don’t own, take up knitting, watch paint dry. Pick one. I would rather do any of the above [...]
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One of my favorite pins on Pinterest is the melted crayon art canvas. I do not know who had the original pin or the orriginal idea for the project. I just know it was not me! It is one of those pins that you look at it and think how simple it must be to do. [...]
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Easter is tomorrow and I am probably a day late and a dollar short on this blog post but that is just the way things are around here. Do you ? If not you should. Not only penny pinching ideas but my boards give you my reader a peek into who I am through my [...]
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My family loves having this publication in the house. A local magazine full of fresh style, familiar face and events for our family. So for $5 this is a steal of a deal that is running today only! Now in its 15th year of publication, Susquehanna Style is a bi-monthly regional lifestyle magazine for the [...]
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I have kids. 3 of them as a matter of a fact. I love their finger (and toe) prints but I love them even more when they are made into art. I saw some CUTE prints turned into art at a amusement park and I will not even TELL YOU what they were charging for [...]
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Source: asmallsnippet.blogspot.com via Sarah on Pinterest This is one of my favoirites for a Valentine for kids to give to their frineds this year. I LOVED pop rocks as a kid. If you have a BJ’s membership I think pop rocks come in large boxes. This pin also includes a FREE printable for the topper [...]
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Here is my second installment of my Pinterest Picks. These particular pins came from a board I have titled ‘Possible Kids Party Theme’. Enjoy and repine if you like! My Pinterest Picks Source: impressionsbyrochelle.blogspot.com via Sarah on Pinterest I saw this and thought it was just the cutest little take away for a party. Directions [...]
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I am going to try and start a new blog series. Pins I have pined on Pinterest and why. If you have not found Pinterest by now you need to go sign up! It is a virtual pin board that you can pin your likes, interest, ideas, must do, want to do or basically anything [...]
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Surprise honey! You are getting an iPad for Christmas. My husband already knows he is getting an iPad for Christmas but it is a running joke in our house that he is suppose to be surprised on Christmas morning that is he getting and iPad. He picked it out. He paid for it. He wants [...]
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I have seen this on Pinterest and knew I had to make this one. I didn’t have a literature book but I did have an old hymnal book that I had purchased at a book reseller for $3. I had other plans for it for other craftiness but this one just ‘spoke’ to me. Here is [...]
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The garden is starting to produce and if your cucumber crop is like mine you are overrun … [Read More...]
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