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Build Memories and Spend Less on Your Grandchildren this Summer

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Will it be a crafts camp with several different projects, a cooking camp – with the grand-kids planning, shopping, chopping and cooking a meal (with your supervision and suggestions of course), a music camp – with each of you playing your instrument or all of you learning new songs together?

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30 Free but Thoughtful Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Cooking Lessons. Are you an amazing home cook? Pick a theme, such as cooking basics 101, family recipes, bread baking, or preserving /canning. Offer these cooking lessons and send the food home with the recipient. When my grandparents were living, we gave the gift of a home-cooked meal to my grandparents.

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4 Hobbies for Adulthood

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It’s also a great hobby to teach children, grandchildren, or students. Cooking and Baking. Cooking also has psychological benefits. Gardening is another hobby you can pick up at any age. The activities involved are countless and can be adapted to just about any setting.

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Cheaper, Less Stressful Alternatives to Christmas Gift Giving

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Families playing football in the back yard after a turkey feast; grandparents watching Christmas Vacation with their grandchildren; decorating the Christmas tree and remembering just how each ornament came about. Everybody loves food, especially food that they don’t have to cook. Give an Experience.

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Upromise eCoupons for February 2011

Saving In Akron

1 Fisher Culinary Touch Cooking & Baking Nut Blend. 1/1 Farmland Fully Cooked Breakfast Links or Patties. $1/1 1/1 Farmland Fully Cooked Bacon. 1/1 Farmland Fully Cooked Breakfast Links or Patties. $1/1 1/1 Farmland Fully Cooked Bacon. 1 Jays Potato Chips. $1/1 1/1 Fisher Snack Almonds, Cashews, Mixed Nuts. $1/1

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Upromise eCoupons for January 2011

Saving In Akron

1 Fisher CulinaryTouch Cooking and Baking Nut Blend, $0.55/1 1/1 Farmland Smoked Fully Cooked Bacon. 1/1 Farmland Smoked Fully Cooked Bacon. If your kids are grown, you can save for your grandchildren, or your if you don't have kids yet, contribute for your nieces, nephews, friends kids, etc. 1 Krazy Glue.

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10 FREE (but Thoughtful) Christmas Gift Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

We give the gift of a home-cooked meal to my grandparents. I realize not everyone has family heirlooms to give away, but my grandmother has been downsizing and gifting her grandchildren pieces from her Fostoria Glass collection that were my grandparents wedding gifts back in 1945. STOP the madness and check out this list.

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