A Frugal Moms Tips to Pinch that Penny a Little Harder

Have your family save all their change for the year. You will be surprised at how quickly your pocket change ads up! Save it as a family to use for next years vacation or for something the family you all have agreed on. Have some family time by saving your coffee cans. Have each member of the household decorate them up, cut a slit in the top and your set to go!

Stop wasting money on expensive coffee on your drive to work. Get a cheap insulated mug with a lid. Daily coffee runs can really add up! Brewing your own only costs pennies.

I use powdered milk to cook with and my daughter drinks it. My husband refuses to drink it. He Say's he will only drink 2% but what he doesn't know is that as the level of milk goes down I replace it with water! By the time it's empty I'm sure it was less than skim milk. Oh if he only knew! Shhhh!

I won't waste money on training pants while I'm potty training my daughter. I about fell over when I priced them at the store! I purchased 8 pairs of the good Ole fashioned plastic training pants, regular little girl panties, and for night time the thick cotton training pants. She is just so proud of her big girl panties!

CANCEL cable TV! Our family did this about six months ago. We rent movies from the Library which is FREE! We also pick up movies at Garage sales.

Check out http://www.freecycle.org Everything is completely free! Post your items you no longer need or want instead of tossing in the trash.
Craigslist also has a FREE section!

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Free Samples and Coupons!

I love to get free samples and coupons! With today's economy how can we not use coupons to get us by?

At Parents Choice you can request a free sample of a days worth of infant formula! You can choose between Milk Based or Gentle Formula. I requested both kinds! Even if you don't have an infant it's a great to tuck into a gift basket for a baby shower!
Free Formula Samples Click Here

Go here to get $30.00 coupon book. I have requested this several times and got it each time. There are some good coupons in it. Coupons include: Mr Clean, Swiffer, Fabreeze, and Cascade, It even includes a coupon for a FREE 8.45oz Cascade Crystal Clear Rinse agent! Click on any of the coupons to on the web page and it will bring you to the request form for the coupon book.
Free $30.00 Coupon Book Click Here


Tide is offering a Free $1.50 off the New Tide Booster Stain Release!
Tide Coupon Click here

Free Sample of Tide Total Care!
Free Sample Click Here

Free $1.00 off coupon for Tide to Go!
Tide to Go Click Here

Free 3 pack of Huggies Pure Natural Diapers!
Free Diapers Click here

Free Underjam Boxers for Bedwetters!
Help keep your child’s bedwetting private with UnderJams® Absorbent Night Wear, bedwetting pants that provide nighttime protection without the world having to know.
Underjam Boxers Click Here

Sign up to receive a free Juicy Juice® Sippy Cup and Water Bottle. Our great plastic Sippy Cup is perfect for serving nutritious JUICY JUICE products. Fill up our 14oz/400ml reusable Juicy Juice bottle with your favorite flavor of JUICY JUICE!
Juicy Juice Cup Click Here

Free Sample of Rachel Ray Nutrish Dog Food!
Click here!





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Shop on Amazon for Free!

It's for real! Just do the surveys, or complete offers. You earn points to cash in at Amazon.com! Or you can cash in your points. 100 points = $1.00. If you need any help getting started or any questions just ask me!


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Fun for the Kids!

Here are some DYI recipes for fun kid crafts! Inexpensive and fun! Um except for maybe the clean up after the kids get done! Isn't it worth it? Wait, even better send the recipes with your kids to overnight stays with Grandma;)

FINGERPAINTS
Recipe 1
Mix 1 1/2 cups starch with enough cold water to make a paste. Slowly add 4 cups boiling water, stirring constantly. Cook until clear, avoiding too hot a fire. While still warm, stir in 1 1/2 cups soap flakes. Add 2 tablespoons glycerin. Add food coloring to portion which will be used immediately and store the remainder in the refrigerator in a covered jar. These paints work best on glazed paper such as shelf paper.

Homemade Chalk

What You Need:

• Toilet tissue tube (or an ice cube tray to create smaller chunks)
• Duct tape
• Aluminum foil if you are using a toilet paper tube (or petroleum jelly if you’re using an ice cube tray)
• Disposable plastic container
• Plaster of Paris
• Water
• Liquid tempera paint
• Spoon

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Now What:

1
Cover one end of the toilet paper tube with duct tape. Loosely roll an 8- by-41/2-inch piece of aluminum foil and slip it into the tube so that it lines the inside, fitting snugly. (Or coat the inside of the ice cube tray with petroleum jelly.)

2
Set tube upright (duct tape side down) on protected surface.

3
In a disposable plastic container, help your child mix 1 cup plaster of Paris with 1/2 cup water. Stir slowly and thoroughly until plaster is dissolved, about 1 minute.

4
Immediately add 2 tablespoons paint (or more for brighter chalk color, but be careful it can stain). Mix thoroughly.

5
Spoon into the tube (or ice cube tray). Tap gently so mixture settles to the bottom.

6
Let dry overnight before using.

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Play dough

3 cups flour
1.5 cups salt
6 tsp cream of tarter
3 tbsp oil
3 cups water

1. Dissolve salt in the water.
2. Pour all ingredients into a large pot.
3. Stir constantly over medium heat until a ball forms by pulling away from the sides.
4. Knead the dough mixture until the texture matches play dough (1-2 minutes).

Store in plastic container. Should last for at least 3 months

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Silly Slime

What you Need(Corn Starch, Water)

Mix 1 cup of corn starch with 1 cup of water. Use your hands to mix it until it is a smooth texture. You can change the texture by adding a 2ND cup of corn starch. You can also add food coloring!

Store in a covered container. It will keep for several days.

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Care

I found this cool site today called care.com. It's a website that you can search for childcare, nannies, senior care, pet sitters, and house keepers. I am looking for someone to sit for my dog over memorial weekend so I don't have to take him to the kennel. This site is awesome! You can sign up for free or with a fee upgrade to run background checks on all the peeps you are interested in hiring. You can also post on there that you are looking for an evening babysitter or like me a dog sitter for the weekend. When I searched in Topeka there were a lot of people looking for jobs as care givers and house keepers. Just wanted to share my new resource! Check it out!;)

Here is the link:

care.com

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WEED AND SEED

Operation Weed and Seed, a U.S. Department of Justice community-based initiative, is an innovative and co mprehensive multi-agency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention and community revitalization.The strategy involves a two-pronged approach: law enforcement agencies and prosecutors cooperate in “weeding out” criminals who participate in violent crime and drug abuse, attempting to prevent their return to the targeted area; and “seeding” brings human services to the area, encompassing prevention, intervention, treatment and neighborhood revitalization

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This is me

The first summer following the purchase of my home I found an abundance of beautiful purple flowers blooming behind my garage. Excited I got to work right away transplanting these flowers into my flower garden. I spent hours doing this! Proud of my find, I bragged to a co worker who is the daughter of a florist and an avid gardener. I invited her to my home to admire them with me. She took one look smiled and began to laugh, exclaimed "Victoria those are not flowers those are WEEDS!

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Honda Bike For Sale

Hubby want a bike? Or know someone that wants one?

1989 Honda nx 250 enduro stlye dirt bike. great shape for year. 6,700 miles, runs good,looks good, new tires,new battery,electric start,liquid cooled --most dirt bikes are air cooled. super great gas mileage. shifts smooth, everything works. do your homework before you buy a Chinese bike claimed to be a Honda clone, there is a reason they are so cheap for a brand new one ----reliability. this bike is reliable. $ 1500

785-383-3352 (Dustin's Cell) or E-mail him at mcphersonds@aol.com or of course just respond to this post!:)

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Join Me!

Topeka Weed and Seed is hosting a neighborhood family party Sat. May 2nd at 1534 SW clay. 11:00am - 2:00pm Lot's of free stuff for the kids to do. Face painting, Topeka Zoo is having a booth, Karate demos, Free Hot dogs, lots of other things too! I think it's going to be a fun day!

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In it's Banana Cage

If you come over to my house and your nose picks up on a funky odor, please don't be alarmed, it's probably just my 2 year old daughter's left over snack. If you ask her where she put her banana she will innocently throw her hands up shrug her shoulders and say "I was done with it, I put it in it's cage" So please if you know what a banana cage is please let me know! I guess now it's just a waiting game for the rotten smell and gnat's to lead the way!

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Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks!

Baseball has been a part of me since being in my mothers womb. I cherish the hot sticky nights watching the yanks play on T.V. with my family. Sitting out in the sun at the community ball park watching my brother play, and my Daddy coaching.My dad used to be a runner. On occasion I would accompany my dad. I would play and wait with anticipation for him to run that final lap around the high school track. Then we would climb to the top of the bleachers and "watch" Chicago Cubs games together. I of course would treat my dad to the closed concession stand hot dogs, soda, and crackerjacks. Can't watch a game without it! Easter Sunday my brother and I headed out to the ball park to watch our Yanks play the Royals. It was cold, very cold. It rained on us almost the entire game. The wind almost blew us away. I am not smart enough to put on a jacket and even dumber for sporting my pink flips. I think my pigs are just now in the last stages of thawing. We were almost alone in our section. I take that back I think we almost had the park to ourselves. Real fans stay until the end. Rain or blistering hot sun I'm dedicated to my boys until the end. We lost that game. Disappointed at the loss, cold and wet; that day at the old ball game with my big brother ranks at the top of my favorite days list. I had a blast! Thanks Brian! One day I will see them on their turf in NYC.

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Roar and Slither Squawk and Coo, Things are happening, At the Zoo!

Roar and Slither Squawk and Coo,

Things are happening, At the Zoo!

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