February 2009

Recipe: Hamburger Gravy and Potatoes

February 19, 2009

I love a good meal, and it is even better if it is easy and frugal. When I first started teaching myself how to cook I came up with this recipe. I highly doubt that it is fully original, but I did make it up on the spot one night. We used to have it [...]

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Help Me!!

February 19, 2009

I need you to help me! I was interviewed by BlogInterviewer.com and now my blog is up for “Top Blog” on their site. If I get enough votes, I can win $50. Rock On! So, mosey on over there, and cast a vote for me..please. You can vote once every 24 hours, so try to [...]

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Just a Heads Up..

February 18, 2009

As part of my Finding Freedom Series, I will be putting a Mr. Linky up on Friday for Finding Freedom Friday. Finding Freedom Friday will be a chance for you to share tips on how you are Finding Freedom from the lender and ways you are cutting back. I hope to have themes, but for [...]

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Using up candles

February 18, 2009

I don’t know about you, but I have a major infatuation with candles. I love them, and they are all over my home. The only problem? I can almost never get the candle to burn all the way down to the bottom. Even if I follow all the rules to candle burning, it just doesn’t [...]

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New Coupons!

February 13, 2009

I’ve been a bit silent in the world of couponing lately, but I thought you should know about some great coupons out on coupons.com. Here are some of the good ones: $1 0ff Scott Extra Soft TP$1 off Reynold’s wrap$1 off Quaker Fiber and Omega-3 Chewy Oat Granola Bars.60 off Chex Mix Bars$1/2 Kellogg’s Frosted [...]

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Recipe: Black Eyed Pea Soup

February 13, 2009

I love an easy, frugal meal. I came across this recipe about 6 years ago, and it was an instant hit. The recipe was eaten by my recipe binder, and just surfaced a couple weeks ago. My husband was delighted to find out that it was on our menu plan this week. Black Eyed Pea [...]

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How Far Would You Go?

February 11, 2009

I’ve been dying to get a greenhouse since we started planning a relatively large garden for this year and we wanted to do it from seeds rather than plants. I know that seeds are a little more work than just buying the plants, but they are so much cheaper than the plants. We began the [...]

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Grocery Shopping Trip

February 10, 2009

I’ve been rather absent from the grocery shopping world for a few weeks. We experienced a sleet/snow/ice storm a few weeks ago, that was the worst one to grace our area in quite sometime. It took quite awhile for everything to melt away, but even then we didn’t return to school. Our high school apparently [...]

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Kitchen Organization Tip

February 10, 2009

I live in a relatively small home, I refer to it kindly as the “Shoe Box.” It makes me crazy some days, but there is just nothing that I can do about it right now. We must get this debt out of the way first. I’ve been highly annoyed with my kitchen over the past [...]