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

The Frugal Girl

The repeated defrosting cycles tend to cause freezer burn on foods pretty quickly, so I try not to keep things in my kitchen freezer for long at all. Related: A post about freezing food in glass jars. And here’s a post about freezing food odds and ends. I want to repair a pair of jeans.

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Ways to Make Do With What You Have

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Get some shoe polish and shine up those old shoes, take them to a shoe repair shop to have the re-heeled or soled if they are worn down. This used to be a common occurrence with a shoe repair shop on every main street. Learn to hem and patch and sew on buttons to repair minor issues with clothing. Use up your food.

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30 Free but Thoughtful Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Offer these cooking lessons and send the food home with the recipient. What a delicious gift of food! Offer your services by the hour or an afternoon to help with easy fixes & repairs. Cleaning Services. If you are a… neat freak …neat person who loves to clean, offer home cleaning services. Oil Change.

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10 MORE Free (but Thoughtful) Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Offer your services by the hour or an afternoon to help with easy fixes & repairs. Cleaning Services. If you are a… neat freak …neat person who loves to clean, offer home cleaning services. Gift them with a certain number of weeks of home cleaning. clean gutters. Oil Change. Online lessons.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

With the time and effort it often takes to clean up a room, house or office, professional organizing has become a service that people are willing to pay for. Food truck Food trucks are hugely popular, often offering unique, specialty foods that often wouldn’t sell as easily in brick-and-mortar restaurants.

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Tips From Working Moms On Decluttering Your Kid’s Room

Penny Pinchin' Mom

That’s because you can’t remember the last time you saw it free of small toys, tossed around clothes, books, food wrappers, and dirty socks. It also ensures that they have invested in not only getting the room clean but also keeping it that way. Labeled bins will work best for keeping your kids room clean.

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The Cost of Personal Grooming

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We all want to interact with people who don’t smell, keep their hair clean and don’t have food fragments stuck in their teeth. Men use shavers, razors, hair cremes, hair removal (for the face, back, nose, etc) as well as the soaps, deodorants, shampoos and conditioners, mouth rinses and tooth cleaning products.

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