Today’s guest post was written by Sharon from Real Life Deals. If you know me, you know I’m extremely frugal. (ok….sometimes even cheap!) I always want my kids to have ‘big’ birthday party memories but I don’t want those memories to cost me big bucks! Here are some ways we keep the cost down while…
Professional portraits are a fun way to capture changes in your family over time. It isn’t always so much fun to pay for these photos! Thankfully, I’ve been able to have Grace’s 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 1-year and 18-month pictures taken for free. When I was pregnant with Grace I started getting coupons for all kinds of things…
Last year I shared how now is the time to buy ham. Grocery stores often have a sale on ham around Easter. Also, there should be a coupon in the Sunday paper for ham. Pair these two together and you could find yourself with some cheap meat! Last year I used a $3 off coupon…
I can’t stand throwing things away. If there is any good that can come from the item, then it must be saved from my trash can. My mother would tell you that I have been this way since birth. However, I think it really got serious for me when I was living in Guatemala. The phrase…
Years ago I decided to splurge on myself and sign up for Netflix. I loved it! Nate and I got one of the cheapest plans. We signed up to receive only one movie at a time, but there was no limit on how many movies we could watch each month. After awhile I discovered that I could…
Happy Valentine’s Day! Are you one of the lucky ones that is getting flowers today? If so, please don’t rub it in. There are several tricks to keeping fresh cut flowers alive longer. Things like adding flower food to the water, recutting the stems on an angle, blah-blah-blah… Those things are all good and helpful,…