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Q&A | cinnamon, SIM, jeans, and grocery spending

The Frugal Girl

I would like to ask, how do you freeze cinnamon bread? If you have a smaller household, you could cut the loaf in half and freeze each half separately; that way you can just get out half a loaf when you want some cinnamon bread. Also, you can slice the bread up before freezing it; that makes it very easy to grab just a slice or two.

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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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Five Frugal Things | with some tiny things

The Frugal Girl

And the rest was just enough to make some cinnamon bread , so I froze that, labeled appropriately, so that I remember what it’s for! So I took a needle and thread and just hand-sewed both of the ends closed. I will figure this out eventually. That happened on the shirt! We’ll see how long my fix holds!

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Balancing Cake and Bread

Work With What You've Got

It needed to be altered to fit in some way, but I can't sew. Got any other ideas for cutting up a tee that don't involved sewing? My BFF moved last year to a much smaller place, and as a result, she purged a lot of old tees. I ended up with a box full. This Tori Amos tee is one of the ones I asked for. It was huge. An XL maybe?

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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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10 FREE (but Thoughtful) Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

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. Are you a knitter, crafter or do you know how to use a sewing machine? Are you good at baking pies?

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Sustainable Gift Giving this Holiday Season

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My son was delighted with the used sewing machine my mother bought for him. From photography to woodworking to painting to sewing, you can use your talents to create personal and unique gifts. You can make dessert breads, cookies, candies, and a number of other items and give them as gifts. Buy Vintage. You can also bake items.

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