Pecuniarities

We have decided to start a new section in our blog devoted to providing printable paper products for your personal use. These will include such items as greeting cards, gift bags, boxes, tags, invitations, and other stationary designed especially for Our Fourpence Worth. You only need to open and print templates, and possibly do a [...]

This is a re-post of one of our earliest articles first published February 27, 2008. Conversion of a Common Coniferous Conundrum When we moved into our own home, my sister and I decided to make our first Christmas a memorable one, which included the purchase of a 7 foot tall Christmas tree. Another occasion which [...]

Semiannually, I take a pair of scissors and work my way through box after box and bag after bag of yarns which seem to have the ability to form tangles without human assistance. I untangle what I can, cut loose impossible knots, and roll up dozens of tidy yarn balls which will somehow unravel themselves [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to the 24th Edition of the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights! If you are unfamiliar with this fairly new carnival, this carnival is for bloggers, blog readers and anyone interested in financial and frugal reading. Visit the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights page to learn more. Looking for Blog Carnival Hosts We are looking for personal [...]

As of this writing, “No-Air Conditioning Summer” is over for us (thank goodness!), but before I talk about how and why it ended, I thought I’d offer some tips on staying cool for those who either choose to or have to live without A/C for frugality’s sake or due to power outages, etc. Before we [...]

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