Keeping your family budget in check is one of those things that for the vast majority of people is hit or miss. You either nail it on the head and things run smoothly or you have trouble finding a budget that works for your family and you struggle with your family finances each month. If you're ...
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25 Simply Delicious Zucchini Recipes
Growing up, there was always someone in the family or at church who was making zucchini bread or one of their other yummy zucchini recipes. I grew up loving it and I still do to this day! It just isn't summer or fall without a warm piece of zucchini bread or a ...
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How to Save Money on Printer Ink
My family prints a lot. We have two printers in our home, one business and one personal and let me tell you. Between business reports for 3 different companies, financial reports, homeschool worksheets and records and the everyday day to day printing we do, I could easily go broke. As our printing ...
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30 Easy Ways to Boost Your Savings Account
The other day I had a conversation with a good friend who had shared a meme from Tumbler. This particular meme basically said that poor people will always be poor because there isn't any other way out. I highly disagree with the original poster (my friend shared it as a conversation piece) and in ...
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9 Reasons for New Moms to Use Cloth Diapers
If you're a new or expecting Momma, you've very likely already got a plateful of decisions to make and one of them is whether or not to use cloth diapers or disposable diapers. Having a baby is hard enough especially if you're trying to prepare your finances for a new baby before you get ...
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9 Reasons To Become a Homesteading Family
My entire life I have dreamed of more. Not more as in "more stuff" or "more money," but more to life. I don't know about you, but I get seriously worn out by amount of technology, political correctness and other "requirements" that we are "required" to do on a daily basis. I've dreamt of simple and ...
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30 Ways to Use WD-40
As a child, I remember my Dad always had a can of WD-40 in the trunk of the car and in the house under the sink. It stayed right beside his rolls of duct tape. When I was little, I used to think that it could only be used to loosen a tight bolt or fix my bicycle chain when it needed greased. These ...
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DIY Pallet End Table
It's only a small secret around here that I love upcycled projects. From upcycled denim projects, ways to upcycle milk jugs, ways to upcycle sheets and even ways to upcycle towels, I love finding a new use for something to give it life where it may not have any of its "conventional" life left. ...
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Why Every Child Should Go Camping on the Beach
Have you ever been camping on the beach? I don't mean renting a cabin near the beach either. I mean taking your tent and parking that bad boy right near the water, in the sand, with no one but you and God's creation around. If not, you should. Recently, Emma and I, together with some friends o ours, ...
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27 Sweet and Tangy Lemon Treats
I adore lemon recipes. For real. I could eat lemon bars everyday for the rest of my life and never get tired of them. They scream summer to me so when it's the middle of winter and cold out, a sweet and tangy lemon recipe has the ability to perk me up and make me long for beach weather. The great ...
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