Frugal Friday

Free 2 Year Subscription to Parents Magazine

June 24, 2009

Valuemags is offering a free two-year subscription to Parent’s Magazine. No strings attached. You’ll never receive a bill. I will take 6 to 10 weeks for your first issue to arrive.
Enjoy!

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Fancy Dinner on a Budget

February 6, 2009

The good thing about being frugal is that you get to save money on things that are unimportant so you don’t feel bad about spending on the things that matter. I know you don’t need a fancy meal to show your significant other you love them. But, you know what? It sure is a nice [...]

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Reusing Storage Bags

November 7, 2008

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Storage bags, chances are you have them at home and lots of them. They are very useful, help contain messes and make putting things away easy. We could go through lots of them fast and be wasteful but we don’t have to, we can reuse them.
To reuse them even [...]

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Higher Prices or Smaller Packages, What is Worse?

September 12, 2008

Earlier this week I visited my local Kmart to pick up some Nutripals bars for my 3 year old. they are a new item there and are on special sale for 2.99. I was very happy to pay this price, as the cheapest I usually find them is $3.94 at Walmart. The [...]

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Vinegar is your BFF (Best Frugal Friend)

August 15, 2008

Before picture: soaking in vinegar
Vinegar is one of those topics every frugal blogger has talked about at least once. I didn’t want to break protocol.
Besides using vinegar to clean my bathrooms I love to use vinegar to clean my pots. Before I found out about vinegar’s other uses I would spend a lot [...]

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Home Canning: Getting Started with Little Invesment

June 13, 2008

Last year was my first year gardening and I loved every minute of it. I was very lucky that I had a very bountiful harvest. However, almost every time a vegetable was ready to be harvested I was overwhelmed by the amount that I had available and how little time I had to [...]

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What to do with leftover corn on the cob

June 6, 2008

Summer is officially almost here. With it comes lots of grilling and in our home this means lots of corn on the cob. Fresh corn is usually cheap and therefore we always end up buying more than we can eat. It also seems that everyone can

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Repurposing Leftover Rice

May 30, 2008

It seems that every time we order Chinese take out we get more white rice than we can eat. I hate to throw it out and often freeze it to use later when I make broccoli quiche. Other times I use it to make fried rice.
This is a very quick an easy way [...]

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Pros and Cons of Trading Coupons

May 23, 2008

I love checking our mail everyday. On most days I get an envelope from a coupon trade I may have done that week. Every time I open an envelope and find coupons in it, is like found money to me. When I first started using coupons I was very excited about saving money. However, there [...]

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Make Sure You Are Paying For Meat NOT Water

May 16, 2008

During my last shopping trip at Walmart I decided to check the meat displays, to confirm something I read in June’s edition of Consumer Reports. The magazine warns readers to be careful to read the labels of any chicken meat they purchase.
Did you know that some chicken processing companies inject the chicken they process with [...]

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