Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Offer these cooking lessons and send the food home with the recipient. I realize not everyone has family heirlooms to give away, but my grandmother was downsizing and gifted her grandchildren pieces from her Fostoria Glass collection that were my grandparents’ wedding gifts back in 1945. What a delicious gift of food!

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Christmas Gifts Home and Garden Flowers and Gifts 130

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 8, 2012

They barely have food to eat, and the mother, who is pregnant, prepares for the new baby by sewing feedsack nighties for him. My aunt and uncle never had a lot of money to donate to their church, but every weekend they volunteered to help set up for weddings or clean up after them in the church hall.

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Giving Money Swagbucks Donation 235

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We also used the 40 year old burnt orange coffee pot to make coffee that day as well as the 20 year old ice chest and 25 year old rain ponchos from the local amusement park, old plastic forks and spoons, unused condiment packages from fast food restaurant stops and plastic tablecloths used at last years wedding shower.

Re-use 235

Re-use Used Reuse Amusement Park 235

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

If you sew, take off the buttons, zippers, lace, netting or whatever to use later. Use pumpkins at your wedding as flower baskets. We passed around pieces of food in the dark and told a story about how the pieces were parts of a body. After Halloween, the parts go back. Re-purpose the used costume.

Halloween 138

Halloween Green Reuse Garage 138

The Frugal Girl

MARCH 4, 2024

My mom cut coupons and sewed her own clothes and mine, as well. We knew it would be a balancing act, so we were working on saving money long before the wedding. I enjoy good food even though I don’t like to cook it – maybe especially because I don’t like to cook it. The food you will actually eat is what is worth buying!

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Green And Frugal Kids and Family Hotel Frugal 177

For the Mommas

MAY 16, 2016

Wild Raspberries by Connie Chappell: When Callie MacCallum sews her first quilt after the death of her lover Jack Sebring, she doesn’t realize she’ll be drawn into a Sebring family battle between wife and daughter-in-law. Megan Sullivan is a single mom with a rather ordinary life.

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Lighting West Virginia Bestsellers Wedding 40