Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MARCH 5, 2012
Food and Drink. You don’t even have to make the party an official potluck, and you can enlist family members to help you prepare all the food. Be Casual – Don’t focus on expensive food and drinks. Your guests want good food and a good time, which doesn’t necessarily mean that they want things like crab tartlets.
Saving Cents With Sense
JUNE 24, 2013
Head to your local craft store and buy a bottle of glow in the dark paint. Using a paint brush paint them with the glow in the dark paint. While you enjoy the music serve inexpensive drinks and snacks such as fruit juice and popcorn. It won’t cost you any more than $4.00 Toss them around the yard. How cool is that?
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
APRIL 7, 2013
To the same effect of cleaning out your closet, having less food will help make this job easier. If the ingredient stays in my pantry for longer than two months after having done this, and it’s not crossed off of my “inventory” list, I donate it to the Food Bank. When do you start on spring cleaning?
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JUNE 1, 2015
I save tape and paper and old paint drop sheets. I had to part with $35 to buy one of those paint masks to even be able to apply it. The paper is pretty inexpensive at around $3 a roll. Endanger my heath with sub standard food, drugs or doctors. Help me out, am I being cheap or just smart about money?
Saving Everyday
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Homemade sidewalk paint –Holy cow, this stuff is expensive at the store, but oh-so-popular with the kiddos! Well, here’s an inexpensive homemade version found over at the blog Domestic Charm. Even better?
Saving Cents With Sense
JUNE 18, 2013
Mix food coloring with small amounts of water to act as paint and then brush the colors on to your ice globes. Fill a tub with water and fill with measuring cups, floating boats and toys, a funnel, squirters, and even a drop of food coloring or two if you wish. Fill balloons with water and tie shut. Now that is “cool!”.
Frugal Luxuries
JULY 6, 2011
Painted the clean, dry lids with leftover white spray paint. Instead I used what I had on hand which were the rolled oats, shelled sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds (aka Pepitos), snips of dried cranberry and ginger and substituted raw coconut oil (found at Sprouts or Whole Foods) for the vegetable oil. Katie LOVES it!)
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