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Homemade Bath Fizzies

Filed under Frugal Living, Projects by Kimberly on February 14, 2012 at 6:15 am {no 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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Simple Clothespin Hat Hanger

Filed under Frugal Living, Motherhood, Organizing, Projects by Kimberly on February 13, 2012 at 7:42 am {2 comments}

Well, this hat hanger out of clothespins could actually actually hang pretty much anything, not just hats. Simple, cheap, diy goodness! This is one of the projects I did to help my younger girls organize their room better, after we decluttered of course. E. has lots of hats and so I wanted to figure a [...]

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Day 31: Just Do It

Filed under Frugal Living, House & Home, Kitchen & Cooking, Organizing by Kimberly on February 9, 2012 at 6:31 am {no comments}

Well, we’ve come to the end of this series on being more Organized with our Menu Planning and Shopping, so as to help us save time, money, and sanity while preserving our family meal time. The most important instruction is this: Just do it. Start. Start small if you need to. Or start big, if [...]

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Day 30: Other Menu Planning Methods

Filed under Frugal Living, House & Home, Kitchen & Cooking, Organizing by Kimberly on February 8, 2012 at 6:16 am {no comments}

As I said at the start of this series, mine is not the “one right way” to plan your menu. You have to do what works for you. Well, in discussing the matter with several friends, it would seem that most people either plan for a month (some even shop for a month and some [...]

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Day 29: FInding Local Sources for Your Favorites

Filed under Frugal Living, House & Home, Kitchen & Cooking, Organizing by Kimberly on February 7, 2012 at 6:41 am {no comments}

One thing that will make the implementation of our menus more organized and frugal is figuring out the best places, locally, to purchase ingredients for those items on our regular menu. Our family lives rurally, so everything for us is a drive in one direction or another. I have to be orderly about how I [...]

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