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10 Evening Activities Your Family Can Enjoy for Less!

Saving Cents With Sense

While you enjoy the music serve inexpensive drinks and snacks such as fruit juice and popcorn. Find some fun tunes and grab some glow sticks from your dollar store or Amazon.Then, get decked out in them and dance your tails off in the dusk! Visit the local dollar store for inexpensive door prizes you can raffle off each hour.

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How to Save on Your Holiday Dinner

Saving Cents With Sense

Take a look below at how to save on your holiday dinner while still enjoying all of the foods you love! Give each person an inexpensive ingredient or side item they can be in charge of so some of the financial burden comes off of you. Focus on inexpensive fillers. This Easy and Inexpensive Pumpkin Dip is also a fun option.

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10 Fun & Budget-Friendly Christmas Party Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

To make clean up fairly easy so that you can enjoy your guests, I have found really cute and inexpensive party supplies, paper plates, cups, and napkins at the dollar store. Some gift theme ideas: Set a challenging, but low dollar limit where party-goers will need to get creative. Gifts must be from a thrift store.

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50 DIY Christmas Gift Ideas

Couponing 101

DIY Lavender Bath Salts via Real Food Enthusiast These bath salts will help you relax while soothing your achy muscles at the same time. Peppermint Sugar Scrub via Real Food Enthusiast Bath & beauty stores make a killing on this stuff because most of us don’t realize how simple it is to make at home.

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Birthday Parties: Saving Money as the Host/Hostess or Guest

Saving Cents With Sense

Stop by your dollar store and get some stickers, lollipops, sunglasses or things that are inexpensive. Think of it like this – if someone invites 20 people and purchases food, etc and plans on that many and only 4 show up – look at the wasted money. Why not stop by the dollar store and pick up a roll of paper and card ?

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Guest Post: Infuse Some New – On A Budget

For the Mommas

Look at the dollar store or craft stores for inexpensive items to give an additional “POW&# to your area. And besides being a coupon ninja, she believes that life is too short for bad coffee, wine or food (but not necessarily in that order). Use mesh bags from produce to add another level of texture to items.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

I also will pay more for some specialty food items, as I have several food allergies to deal with, and we eat a no-sugar diet. I also splurge on our cat’s special allergen-reducing food, which makes it possible for Ms. Easiest part of being frugal: Not buying things like junk food at the grocery store.

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