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Five Frugal Things | on a Monday!

The Frugal Girl

I found some red thread in my sewing box. And then I set up my sewing machine. So, I sewed a scrap piece of denim on the inside, using yellow thread to hide my stitching. Then I used blue thread to hand sew around the hole, to keep the hole from getting any bigger. Chiquita was interested in the spare bobbin. She got it.

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30 Free but Thoughtful Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Pick a theme, such as cooking basics 101, family recipes, bread baking, or preserving /canning. My aunt gifts her nieces and nephews with loaves of homemade cinnamon bread every Christmas. We all look forward to the bread every year. I can almost taste the toasted cinnamon bread slathered with butter now. Cooking Lessons.

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How To Re-use Common Items

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Plastic containers from sliced lunch meat are great for leftover vegetable or casserole servings. Pumpkins are first used to decorate the porch for Halloween, then carved into jack-o’-lanterns and finally processed for use in pumpkin bread. They fit nicely into ice chests and won’t break.

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Hottest Amazon Deals for 10/28! Save on Pioneer, Skechers, T-fal & More!

For the Mommas

Lightning Deals:: 9 am EST: Bentgo Kids Children’s Lunch Box – Bento-styled Lunch Solution Offers Durable, Leak-proof, On-the-go Meal and Snack Packing (Blue). 5 pm EST: T-fal PF311E ActiBread Programmable Bread Machine Stainless Steel Housing Nonstick Coating Automatic Bread Maker with LCD Display, 2-Pound, Silver.