Welcome to Frugal Photo Friday! This month I am partnering with Crystal, from Money Saving Mom. Each Friday we are sharing pictures of simple ways that we save money. This week I'm sharing how buying gender neutral things for my kids saves money. I am a huge fan of buying gender neutral things for my kids. We have one girl and one boy, but we've been choosing gender neutral options before we knew would have one of each in our family. When Nate and I were expecting our first baby, we decided to wait to find out the gender. The nursery was gender neutral along with everything we registered for and bought for the baby. In the end, I … [Read more...]
10 Practical Tips for a Fabulous & Affordable Nursery
This post contains affiliate links. I am not very skilled at decorating, but there are several practical things that I've done with my children's nursery that I think make it fabulous. Plus these things were affordable for our low budget. 10 Practical Tips for a Fabulous and Affordable Nursery 1) Gender Neutral Theme - Waiting to finding out gender of my first baby saved me so much money. It is my number one money saving tip for new parents. Plus, sometimes the ultra sound technicians are wrong. They were with Noah! Why not play it safe and go with a neutral theme? 2) Organic Bedding - We spend more time on our beds than … [Read more...]
Happy Family Baby Food {giveaway}
*** This giveaway is now closed. *** I am picky when it comes to what I feed my babies. I love making my own baby food, but I also appreciate the convenience of store bought baby food. When I do make that special exception to use store bought food, I want to make sure that it is the best stuff I can buy. I always buy organic. Noah is going to turn one this month. (Yikes!) I made 99% of his baby food. We also leaned more towards baby led weaning this time around. A simple definition of baby led weaning is that you introduce table food fairly early and allow the baby to feed themselves. If you are curious, you can read more about … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Cloth Diaper Convert
Confession: I don't use cloth diapers. I suppose this really isn't a big secret since I wrote a whole post titled Why I Don't Use Cloth Diapers. I guess you could say that the real confession is that I think I should be using cloth diapers. I firmly believe that cloth is better for the environment, the baby, and the wallet (in the long run). Yet I still don't do it. Eh. I'm not perfect. When I heard that my blogging friend Erin, from The Humbled Homemaker, was writing the ultimate "how to" guide for cloth diapers, I knew that I was not the right person to write a review for her. ;-) Still, I knew that many of my lovely readers … [Read more...]
The Do’s & Don’ts of Helping a Friend After a Stillbirth
Kristen's beautiful son Cohen would have been 9 months old today. Instead he was born straight into the arms of Jesus when Kristen had a stillbirth at 38.5 weeks. I first told you about Cohen in my letter To Mothers with Empty Arms. Then Kristen shared with us what life was like 3 months later. Now Kristen wants to say "thank you" for all of your support. First, she would like to offer you some practical advise if you ever find yourself trying to help a friend after a stillbirth. Then she has a special gift for one lucky reader. I spoke with Kristen recently about what things were helpful and hurtful after her stillbirth. Together … [Read more...]
The Secret to Saving Money on a New Baby
This post contains affiliate links. There are common ways to save money when you are expecting a new baby (only buy the essentials and buy used or borrow from friends), but my number one money saving tip is a lot less popular. The secret to saving money on a new baby is... Don't find out the gender ahead of time! Waiting to find out the sex of our babies saved us a lot of money for 3 different reasons. 1. We were forced to buy gender neutral baby equipment. Every time Nate and I picked out a new item for our registry we asked ourselves, "Is this too girly? Is this too boyish?" We wanted to be sure that we could use … [Read more...]
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