Honestly, I have many fond feelings toward eBay. There was a double-house-payment period in our lives when we had NO extra money. I managed to make 40$ per week during that year, and we used the money to go out to eat on the weekends. In a difficult time . . . that 40$ was huge. Honestly, I have many fond feelings toward eBay. There was … [Read more...]
Bathroom Project Link-Up
Did you make some changes in your own bathroom this week? I'm enjoying my newly organized-for-the-real-us bathroom. One of the things I didn't mention in Tuesday's post was that I cleared out a cabinet shelf to store towels. Yes . . . we automatically know to look in the linen closet in other end of the house. But we don't necessarily … [Read more...]
How to Not Have to Check Gift Card Balances
Don't just look at the picture. Read the whole post. Because I've gotten even smarter since I came up with this really smart idea. Gift cards have come a long way in the past ten years. First, they changed to cards instead of certificates, and now you can even give a credit-card-based giftcard that will allow the recipient to use it … [Read more...]
Organizing the Bathroom According to How We Live
As I keep going in my deslobification process, I'm more and more determined to organize our home for the way we actually live. Not for how people in magazines live, but how we live. Not even for the way I wish we lived . . . but for how we actually do live. Today, I worked on the cabinets in my master bathroom. Hubby and I have separate … [Read more...]
Big Spender
I had one hundred dollars to spend. Do you know how much stuff this deal-lovin' mama can get for one hundred dollars? After Christmas, I had a one hundred dollar department store gift card burning a hole in my purse. My mind started to buzz with ideas of what I could do with that money. In the past, I've been known to hit the sales with a … [Read more...]
Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
I'm determined to use up (and discover!) what's in my freezer and pantry this month. So when the store I went to didn't have any deals on spaghetti sauce, I decided to make a batch of my favorite homemade sauce using the canned tomatoes I had in the pantry. And then wondered why I hadn't done that in a very long time. This recipe is based on … [Read more...]
Extreme Decluttering – And Come Link Up Your Decluttering Post!
Technically, this post should be a report on what I decluttered in December. But that was so last year. For some reason, I have no desire to even go look at my decluttering category. Not sure where this defiant attitude is coming from . . . but I'm just in the mood to look forward. To what I'm doing right now. And what I'm doing right … [Read more...]
Even Though I Know Better
I was cleaning the kitchen this morning. (Just so you know, if my husband is reading this at work right now . . . he probably just cheered loudly. I let busy-ness trump my Daily Checklist for two days, and it was bad.) As I washed the burned rice off of the bottom of my new stainless steel skillet, I started to stick it in the dishwasher … [Read more...]
Freezer/Pantry Clean-Out Month
I saw that Jessica from Good Cheap Eats and several other bloggers are hosting a pantry challenge this month. I participated in something similar two years ago in January. This time, though, will be different. First of all, I think I overdid it last time. I used up EVERYTHING we had, and since my couponing went on the decline soon after, I … [Read more...]
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