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8 Easy Baking Recipes to Try This Weekend

Couponing 101

There’s something particularly comforting about freshly baked goods during times of stress, so it’s no wonder than many people are using their time in quarantine to whip up delicious treats. It seems everywhere you look on social media right now, everyone is baking fabulous cakes and breads from scratch.

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30 Free but Thoughtful Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

This list of thoughtful, but FREE Christmas gift ideas is proof that you don’t need to spend a lot of money on the people you gift to if you use your time, resources, and creativity. Browse the entire list and let us know in the comments which ideas you’re going to give and what free gift ideas you have.

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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

Family Balance Sheet

The season of family, faith, food, and…shopping… collective sigh… The spending part of Christmas can get crazy, so I’ve come up with a list of ideas to find some extra cash for your Christmas spending if you’re coming up short. I use this spreadsheet every year. Do you love to bake? Are you Crafty?

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Using Kids Crafts to Teach the Gift of Giving

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Teaching The Gift of Giving This year the grand kids are 5 and 8 years old and I want to demonstrate the pleasures of giving. Moms always love anything their kids give them! Something to use to write messages on the wet cement. I used the sandrete I already had. Pretty things to embed in the wet cement.

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A Few Shortcuts Weekly Recipe: Cinnamon Raisin Baked Oatmeal Squares

Nicoles Nickels

Amanda at A Few Shortcuts has a great bake-ahead breakfast bar this week. Cinnamon Raisin Baked Oatmeal Squares takes the yummy healthiness of oatmeal and makes it portable! I’ll have to give it a try. Recipes A Few Shortcuts Weekly Recipe: Cinnamon Raisin Baked Oatmeal Squares' Comments Pinned this.

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10 FREE (but Thoughtful) Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

There’s outside pressure during Christmas to spend lavishly only to have the recipient not really like the gift or even use it. It is possible to give thoughtful gifts with very little money or even no money at all. We give the gift of a home-cooked meal to my grandparents. Baked Goods. Are you good at baking pies?

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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

Family Balance Sheet

I use this spreadsheet. Whether you are scrambling to find money for gifts OR you could just use some extra cash this season, my hope is that this list of ideas (many we’ve done ourselves) helps you find some cash for Christmas. Are you fluent in another language or maybe you’re a math whiz? Do you love to bake?

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