Category Archives: Frugal Living

Just a little spraypaint…

By Angela | Published: February 2, 2012
I’m having a great time at the new house.  The previous owners left quite a bit of stuff.  I’ve been cleaning up some of it and selling it on craigslist to help pay for the renovations.  Some of it is just trash, like the original bath rug with the backing that turned to dust.  And [...]
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New Food Budget Recommendations

By Angela | Published: January 31, 2012
Did you know that when the government calculates the rate of inflation commodities like food and gasoline aren’t included?  According to this site inflation rates for 2011 were 3%.  My food and gasoline went up a lot higher than that.  Take the lowly graham cracker for example.  When I first wrote the Grocery Shrink ebook, I was able to [...]
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Free Printable Menu for February 2012

By Angela | Published: January 29, 2012
It’s that time again.  Time to plan your supper’s so you don’t have to think about it the rest of the month.  To make it easier for you, here’s a cute little printable menu. Click on the picture below to download a printable pdf.
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Guestpost: The Pros and Cons of Layaway

By Angela | Published: November 7, 2011
Stacey Makes Cents is back today to talk with us about layaway.  (Hey–I’m a poet .   By now you should know that Barry and I are NOT fans of credit cards. If we don’t have the money for something, we don’t buy it. For some people, this is a problem at Christmas time. I try [...]
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Straining Yogurt

By Angela | Published: September 29, 2011
Here’s a quick video I filmed of straining the yogurt I made in my slow cooker. Since I made the yogurt during the day. I refrigerated it overnight. It still strained, but slower and a lot less whey came off then when I strained it warm. You can click here to get the slow cooker [...]
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Amazon Price Watching

By Angela | Published: September 29, 2011
I love it when you ask questions!  That  helps me write a post I know you can use .   The answer is Yes!  I price watch on Amazon by filling my cart with what I’m interested in and just not buying it.  Amazon saves my cart if I’m logged in.  I can log in every day and if the [...]
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I messed up

By Angela | Published: September 24, 2011
I teach the way I teach because it’s the right way to do things, and because I need to hear it too .  I messed up this week and now I’m out of grocery money and out of milk, bread, eggs, and hamburger. Produce will run out soon too. How does this happen?!!!  I know I [...]
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Crowning Renee Queen of Frugal!

By Angela | Published: September 21, 2011
Renee won our Frugal Activity contest with her 33 tallies!  Here’s her intervew: What is the ”single thing” that saves your family the most money?  I have to say it is educate myself.  If I’m not educated on how to handle the funds, make good and responsible choices, and make money work for us, well then I can’t contribute [...]
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Slow Cooker Greek Yogurt

By Angela | Published: September 12, 2011
I wrote about this in my newsletter and promised you could get a recipe on my blog, but when I did a search myself, I didn’t find it!  So here is the long overdue post. I like to do a whole gallon at once, because I use yogurt for a lot of things–eating with fruit, pancake [...]
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Local Deals and Time to Plan for September

By Angela | Published: August 25, 2011
If you haven’t done it already, this is a great day to start planning your meals for September.  For tips on meal planning click here.   You can download blank 2011 calendars for meal planning here. If you live near Kansas City, Hy-Vee has some amazing deals right now.  At the Noland and 40Hwy store, I just grabbed [...]
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