Thrifty Living

Using Coupons on Organic Products

May 15, 2012

So over the last year as we scooted further into our journey of buying more organics I noticed I was gravitating further away from using coupons. We first switched over to buying organic foods so we still used coupons on health and beauty products but now we’ve been switching those over as well or making [...]

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Guest Post: Hanging Clothes

May 11, 2012

Little House Living readers please welcome Cindy, our guest poster for today! Last month I got pressed back into using my clothesline when my dryer malfunctioned and needed some repair. I’m no stranger to a clothesline; I’ve always been blessed with having a line in the back yard wherever I’ve lived. I’ve used the line off and [...]

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Creating a Moth Trap

May 10, 2012

I don’t know about where you live but the moths here on the South Dakota plains are just awful this year. Last night we snuck into the house in the dark without turning any lights on and still had over 30 moths in the kitchen when we finally did flip on the lights. A swarm [...]

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Why I’ve Been Shopping On Amazon

April 7, 2012

Truth be told the UPS man has been at my house a little more lately. You can always tell a blogger by the amount of cardboard boxes by their dumpster but not only am I a blogger, I live in the country. Alot of those packages I’ve been getting are from Amazon. Last year I [...]

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My Cloth Diaper Experiment

March 6, 2012

Pin It As I talked about on our Facebook page the other day, I was trying to figure out where to find patterns, fabric, ect for cloth diapers. I worked on my little experiment this week as I slowly figured out where to get the supplies. If anyone else is looking to make these I [...]

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Baby Pillow

February 15, 2012

Pin It I saw this cute Baby Pillow picture uploaded to Pinterest the other day and I thought that I needed to make that for baby to lay on so he lay next to me with I’m working. It was an easy and fairly inexpensive project to make. Try and buy fleece in the winter [...]

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How to Shop at a Surplus or Discount Grocery Store

January 10, 2012

We shop in a variety of ways. One of my favorite ways to “bargain hunt” is to shop at discount grocery or surplus stores. We’ve kind of made it our “thing”. Every time I go on vacation I first look up all the discount grocery stores that will be in the area we are going [...]

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Homemade Kid's Craft Items

November 25, 2011

Here are some fun recipes that you can use to create homemade kid’s crafting and projects items. Re-Purposing Old Crayons Put together all your old, broken up crayon pieces. Remove the paper wrappings from them. Use a muffin pan with liners and add in several pieces of the crayons into each spot. Place in the [...]

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Sprucing Up Boxed Meals: Guest Post

November 17, 2011

Thanks to Amy at Pounds for Pennies for this guest post! With many of us couponing or trying to save money we need to stretch those box meals a little further. For me a simple box meal just doesn’t feed all five of us. I like to have leftovers for little face and me for lunch the [...]

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Homemade Playdough

November 15, 2011

Here are some recipes for Homemade Playdoughs to use with kids who need something to do this winter. They are also great to make for birthday gifts or stocking stuffers. Homemade Playdough What you need: 1 c. flour 1/4 c. salt 2 T. cream of tarter 1 pkg. unsweetened kool-aid (any smell you would enjoy) [...]

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