I’m not sure if overfriendly, talkative grocery employees are just part of being in the South or the fact that I usually buy a boatload of food, but the cashier or the bag boy/girl usually strike up a conversation about the food I am buying.  Have you ever had that happen?  Store employees commenting on your food choices?  It [...]

There are parts of every season that I love and parts that I dislike greatly.  I’m working on my New Year’s resolution of controlling my outlook and perspective on life to seeing things as being half full instead of half empty.  So, I will refrain from ranting about all the things I hate about the cold, bare [...]

It’s Monday and I had grand plans for getting my house in order on Monday morning to start the week off right.  Pregnancy does strange things and in my case, it makes me completely intolerant of chaos.  I guess it is that nesting instinct going into hyper-drive.  However, all my good intentions of getting the house [...]

Being one who loves to save money, I’ve been thinking a lot about frugality.  While this post may seem out of character, or possibly a bit controversial, I like to mix it up here on the blog and offer some “food for thought”, so to speak, on being frugal to a fault. 
Is it possible to [...]

Do you clean underneath your refrigerator twice a year?  Have you ever dusted the back of your refrigerator or underneath it?
I use to be one of those homemakers that mopped the floor once each day, ironed on Tuesdays and regularly cleaned under the bed and couch…and yes, the refrigerator!  However, after all my little ones came [...]

Laundry is apart of life.  I ran across this interesting article entitled Do-It-Yourself Laundry Detergent where it talks about ways to save money on laundry detergent and questions the amount of laundry detergent Americans use.  It even throws out the idea of not using any laundry detergent! 
You might be surprised to learn that, while clothing has been [...]

I love spring time.  I’ve been coming out of my morning sickness coma and getting back into the swing of things.  My house is still a wreck and while I am wanting everything immediately organized, I have to keep telling myself to focus on smaller tasks and don’t get overwhelmed by looking at the disaster! 
I [...]

Wow this week flew by for us!  I’m going on my 3rd week of using my homemade dishwasher detergent.  I’m loving the fact that it is not only cheap to make, but it is working!  My dishwasher is on it’s last leg too, so that is really saying something for our old washer.  We do [...]

As I mentioned before, we made homemade root beer this week.  For the cost of a little over a cup of sugar and and whatever a teaspoon of vanilla  and yeast costs, we made 1 gallon of root beer.  Now, it wasn’t like the A&W Root Beer you buy in the store!  But it did [...]

This Frugal Friday I wanted to share our homemade dishwasher detergent experiment this week.  I was looking for a alternative to the Costco brand dishwasher detergent I had been using.  I wasn’t looking to change dishwasher detergent because of expense.  The Costco brand dishwasher detergent is actually very inexpensive.  I was looking to change because [...]