The Frugal Girl
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
I’m using metal containers to pack my lunches Reusable containers make for a greener lunch, and a cheaper lunch. I love glass containers for food storage at home, largely because they are see-through. But for lunches, I love metal containers. That’s the best kind of hole for mending.
The Frugal Girl
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
I always skip the blowdry/style service because it costs extra and my hair is so thin, it dries on its own by the time I get home anyway! I’ve been faithfully packing my lunches My building at the college has an in-house Chick Fil A, and in my two years of attending classes there, I’ve managed to not buy food there at all.
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
DECEMBER 29, 2011
Here are a few: Come Home ([link] My Family ([link] Family Lobby ([link] Family Website ([link] FamDazzle ([link] Adorable ([link] Your Family Site ([link] or Your Family Website ([link]. Learn to crochet (knit, sew, build a birdhouse, build a model, play chess). What do you know how to do? Is your child old enough?
Family Balance Sheet
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
They will appreciate the thoughtfulness and might also be looking to reduce the sheer amount of unnecessary stuff that comes into their homes during the holidays. Are you an amazing home cook? Offer these cooking lessons and send the food home with the recipient. Gift them a certain number of weeks of home cleaning.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 23, 2014
home-managment. home-schooling. Blog at Home Mom by Christin Slade. Filling Hearts While Cleaning Homes: Five Minute Devotionals for Families by Lindsey Stomberg and Jennifer Thorson of PurposefulMom.com. Hospitality – The Duty of the Christian Home by Kathy Brodock. Sewing School 101 by Nicole Bennett.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Last weekend my grown son was home for our autumn family picnic. Plastic containers from sliced lunch meat are great for leftover vegetable or casserole servings. I pulled out our Coleman water jug and his chin fell on the floor. That thing predates me!” he exclaimed (he was born in 1978).
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JANUARY 14, 2015
If you want to get fancy, draw, paint or sew buttons on it for eyes. My recurring problem, of course, is that the cookie tins seldom come home to be refilled. You all know you can make puppets for kids from an old sock. Just slip it over your hand and use your thumb and fingers to make a mouth. Clothes pins. Coffee can.
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