Frugal Home Dec Tip: Electrical Outlet or Light Switch Frame

Here is simple home decoration project to spruce up your walls or sides of cabinets that have an electrical outlet or light switch plate. This electrical outlet pictured to the right is in a conspicuous place in our house and I found the yellowish white plastic color rather offensive, so I came up with the [...]

Frugal Thermodymics Part I: Limiting Sources of Heat in the Home

How to keep your home cool with basic scientific principles and thermodynamics. Save money on utilities and air conditioning with logical and simple methods.

DIM (Did-it-Myself!) Country Kitchen Storage Shelf

Our new DIY country kitchen shelf and frugal kitchen storage solutions for under $10.

Carnival of Debt Reduction No. 185: The Charles Dickens Debtor’s Prison Edition

Featuring educational debt and debtor’s prison quotes from Charles Dickens’ novels as well as quality articles on debt, money management, personal experiences and more.

Free Printable Craft Template: Birdhouse with Siding, Stucco Walls and Tile Roof

As the weather is getting warmer, and the neighborhood birds are returning from their winter holiday, I was inspired to make birdhouses for my next set of printables. These birdhouses can be used as gift boxes, storage, ornaments, or nesting boxes for small birds and pets (indoors only).
There are two kinds of walls, vertical panels [...]

Favorite Christmas Memory

The topic for this month’s PF Bloggers Group Writing Project is our Favorite Christmas Memories. My favorite memory is our first Christmas in our own house, which was 2006. We bought our house in November 2005, but we had to travel out of the country to attend a cousin’s wedding – actually we were bridesmaids [...]

101 Ways to Save Money in Your Everyday Life

Tiny leaks and evaporation put a constant drain on your resources. As discussed in our previous post, From Pennies One Million Dollars Grow, a few cents saved here and there can add up to be a significant amount. Here we offer 101 suggestions for plugging expenditures in various aspects of your life – around the [...]



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