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How to Make Slime for Kids

Saving Cents With Sense

My son absolutely loved making and play with this slime. Borax (sold in laundry aisle). Food coloring (optional). If you are adding food coloring, add a few drops to this mixture until you get the color you want. This is really a fun DIY craft for kids any time of year, but around Halloween, it can be even more exciting.

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How to Learn Frugal Tricks in a New Town

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For instance, we regularly do the following frugal activities: Hang clothes to dry indoors on a wooden drying rack, Buy food in bulk when it is cheap and freeze the excess or store it, Buy used (for clothing and furniture), Cut my son and husband’s hair. Make our own laundry detergent. Have my husband dye my hair.

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Giveaway: Kiddo Tags $50 Credit

Saving Cents With Sense

You can get labels that are dishwasher safe or laundry safe, so you can stick them on school supplies, toys, cups, pacifiers, clothing and more. I love this next giveaway because how custom you can make the products. Kiddo Tags offer customizable washable labels that come in a variety of sizes and colors.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? an illustration I did for one of my son’s books. This is a butcher board table my husband and sons made when we were living in a rental with very little useful counter space.

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shoprite coupons eCoupons March 2016 – April

Coupons Do Work

ShopRite eCoupon site : $2/1 OxiClean Laundry Detergent 40 oz. 1 Schweid & Sons Burgers & Sliders exp 4/2/16. $1/1 Only 176 clipped eCoupons are allowed on your account at any one time. These are store coupons — that means they can be stacked with manufacturer’s coupons for additional savings. exp 3/26/16. $1/1

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Lazy Saturday Reads: The Potluck Club, Stars Collide and More Reads

For the Mommas

Though her sons have sold the house and sent her to a facility for the aged, she is determined to die in the place she lived her life, and somehow manages to find her way “home” day after day. Dirty Laundry: A Chick Lit Romance by Rachel Naples. Potluck Club, The by Linda Evans Shepherd. But for me?

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10 Savvy Ways to Save in 2014

Saving Cents With Sense

My son was constantly forgetting to turn off his bedroom light, so we installed a motion sensor light switch in his room. Household cleaners, body scrub, baby food, as well as many other household items are easy to make, and cost a lot less than the packaged items from stores. Make Your Own Laundry Detergent.

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