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Cloned Coffee: Mock Coconut Mocha Frappuccino

Filed under Frugal Living, Kitchen & Cooking by Kimberly on March 24, 2012 at 1:43 pm {4 comments}

Super Simple Homemade Coconut Mocha Frappachino Recipe

Last summer, Starbucks got me addicted to the Coconut Mocha Frappuccino, then stopped selling it. Want to know how to make your own at home? Here’s how! Last summer, a web design client very sweetly gave me a $50 gift card to Starbucks as a thanks. I still had money on my card when the [...]

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Saving Money with Top Down Budgeting

Filed under Frugal Living by Kimberly on March 14, 2012 at 5:10 am {5 comments}

When we, as moms, try to “save money” or shave some extra dollars off of our household budgets, we usually do so in one primary category: the grocery budget, with toiletries and cleaners thrown in there. I get that. I save money that way too, and even wrote a book about it (Shopping and Cooking [...]

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Saving on the Electric Bill

Filed under Frugal Living by Kimberly on March 12, 2012 at 5:36 am {3 comments}

Tasty Tips for Saving Money from Grocery Store to Dinner Table

I don’t know about you, but electric bills always seem to be a bit esoteric in a way. It hard to wrap my head around ways to start saving on something that I can’t really see or tangibly feel. But that’s the point, I guess. We often don’t realize the electricity we are using, but [...]

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Paper Floors: An Eco-Friendly, Frugal Idea

Filed under Frugal Living, House & Home, Projects by Kimberly on February 28, 2012 at 3:30 pm {5 comments}

Craft Paper flooring Project for bedroom floor

As I wrote earlier, we did some small, frugal repairs and remodels to our house, only out of extreme necessity, and spending the bare minimum. We are in the process of foreclosure (still not notice as to when, so for that we’re thankful) but we had some cracked plaster walls, and a few other issues. [...]

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Homemade Bath Fizzies

Filed under Frugal Living, Projects by Kimberly on February 14, 2012 at 6:15 am {4 comments}

Because it’s Valentines’ Day I feel like I need to talk about something romantic…but this week, I’ve planned to do posts for all of the frugal organizational projects I’ve done lately. This is a slight deviation. It’s a frugal project, but with a heart theme I wrote in my book, Shopping & Cooking Frugally, I [...]

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