Couponing 101
DECEMBER 11, 2019
There’s no doubt about it: stay-at-home parents work hard. Luckily, with remote work and work-from-home jobs growing so rapidly these days, there are plenty of great side hustles for stay-at-home parents. So, without much further ado, here are some of our favorite side gigs for stay-at-home parents. Online Teacher/Tutor.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JUNE 10, 2013
If you are like most parents, you want to raise your children well – to develop their mental and physical aspects completely. Busy Bee Kids Crafts has a bunch of ideas, one of which is making paper plate tambourines. For the more sophisticated, try crafting a vegetable instrument or band. Garage sales – I found a guitar for $5.00
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
DECEMBER 16, 2013
My parents and their siblings were of the generation that grew up during the depression in the 1930′s. I bought a roll in 2011 and have been using it for everything from Christmas wrap to kid crafts to posters to mailing packages every since. Dress it up with artwork or natural greenery as shown in this post from Parents.
Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
If you have the knack for your DSLR, a photo session would be a perfect idea for new parents, soon-to-be high school or college graduates, or a family portrait. If so, give the gift of organizing a closet (or 2), kitchen cupboards, a basement, garage, etc. Homemade Crafts. Give your Gift of Organization. Give your Perennials.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JUNE 15, 2014
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? Hold a garage sale together.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
APRIL 3, 2013
In many parts of the US, people learned to sew as part of their life skills – from parents or family or schools. For those with the desire and aptitude to design clothing or home decorations or craft items and then make them, sewing is an avocation and a delight, and sometimes even a business. Clothing is cheap, sewing is not.
Saving Cents With Sense
JANUARY 19, 2013
As an expecting parent, it’s tempting to buy that beautifully detailed changing table or the crib you saw last week in the window of an upscale boutique. Buy a dated, smooth-gliding rocker at a garage sale for next to nothing and customize it with several yards of fabric and a staple gun. Reupholster Second-Hand Furniture.
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