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20 Fun (& Budget-Friendly) Christmas Activities

Family Balance Sheet

Pop some popcorn, snuggle up with blankets and find some hilarious Christmas movies on Netflix, cable or rent from the library. Attend Holiday Events at Your Library. Check out your library’s calendar. Bake & Decorate Gingerbread Cookies. Build & Decorate Gingerbread Houses.

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The 12 Days of Frugal Holiday Fun Recap

Family Balance Sheet

Day 2 ~ Attend Holiday Events at Your Local Library. Day 3 ~ Bake & Decorate Gingerbread Men Cookies. Day 4 ~ Build & Decorate a Gingerbread House. The holidays can be so hectic, so slow down and enjoy the frugal fun and the season with your family. Day 1 ~ Plan a Holiday Movie Night. Day 6 ~ Christmas Crafts.

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Seven Cheap Hobbies That You and Your Family Can Enjoy

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Building model airplanes, for example, might have gone by the wayside with the recession because it is a hobby that can quickly get expensive. With fishing, you can make small purchases over time to build up your fishing supplies, so that it is not very expensive all at one time. You can either purchase a few worms or a few lures.

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Meet a Reader | Mid-Atlantic Julia

The Frugal Girl

baking, library storytimes, and being involved in our church’s Bible study, meals for the sick, and other various ministries. This allowed us to build equity pretty quickly and that benefitted us greatly when we moved in 2022. In my free time I enjoy canning and preserving food (well, I enjoy the results of it, ha!),

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8 Fun and Free Winter Weekend Activities

Couponing 101

As long as you have warm clothes, you can build a snowman, make an igloo, make snow angels, and have a snowball fight without spending a dime. Families might go to the library together and each pick out a book they’ll read during the weekend. If there’s snow and the ground, you can go out and play! Read a Book. Guess what?

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Vacations on a Dime: Centsational Staycation Ideas

Saving Cents With Sense

First, visit your local library for information and books about Italy. Visit the library and learn all you can about the beautiful land of Ireland! Then, try building your own with old boxes! Visit the library and read all you can about the culture. They will help you plan a staycation that the whole family can enjoy!

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Summer Fun 2013

Saving SAHM Sanity

Baked Bead Sun Catchers A little artsy & A little craftsy 5. Make homemade ice cream, bake cookies, then use the two to make ice cream sandwiches! Join our library''s summer reading program 24. Build a fort with blankets. Make Something Monday 1. Shaving Cream Painting In Lieu of Preschool 2. Thinking Thursday 19.

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