One way to spend your Valentine’s: Babysitter: $5/hr for 4 hours Total    $20 Meal Out: $8 – Entrée $8 – Entrée $2 – Drink $2 – Drink $4 – Tip Total       $24 Gifts     $2 – Card for him $2 – Card for her $10 – Gift for her $10 – [...]

I know this is post-Christmas, but I thought it still might be useful for future-Christmases or birthday presents. Here’s a few of the low-budget gifts we gave this year: Home-made hot cocoa mix. There’s a lot of different recipes out there, but I stuck close to this recipe, only I used french vanilla creamer. This [...]

Sometimes I feel like just making a random, miscellaneous post…and that’s how I feel right now. Random Thing #1 I haven’t done much cooking with deer meat, but in the last month we’ve had quite a bit given to us, so I’ve started learning! I used ground venison to make  chili. I did it exactly [...]

Key holders are my best friend! I think I would lose keys every day if it wasn’t for having one hanging at the front door. When we moved, we got rid of the one we had, but never fear! Cameron came to the rescue! He went outside and found some wood and sticks just lying [...]

People weren’t kidding when they told me kids grow up fast! Wasn’t it just yesterday Gracia was that little baby crawling around the house? I miss hearing her little hands on the ground as she would follow me wherever I went. But even though I miss that stage, there are a lot of things I’m [...]

Yesterday was a fun day! I had a play date with a couple of ladies from church and their kiddos. We made play dough. It was the first time I’ve ever made it and it was a success!! I used Tammy’s recipe, although we didn’t add any scents and we added the food coloring at [...]

See what I got for Valentine’s Day? Cameron and Gracia made me an edible arrangement! Not only was this probably far cheaper than the ones you buy, but it meant more to me that he put the thought and effort into it and he was able to make it just how he knew I’d like [...]

I keep thinking I’m done with gift wrapping, then realize I’m not. Last night I pulled out Gracia’s Duplos (which by the way we got for only $20 on Amazon), thinking I might have a gift bag big enough for them….nope. So I grabbed the biggest roll of wrapping paper I stilled had left from [...]

Here’s most of our gifts for family, other than ones I already sent and a few I hadn’t gotten yet. As you can see by the picture, I did wrap many of my gifts with wrapping paper, but it was all wrapping paper I already had. I haven’t bought wrapping paper or gift bags in [...]

When you’re spending money on gifts, decorations, special foods and travel, the least you could do for your budget is not spend money on wrapping paper. Here’s a slew of ideas to help make this a cheaper (and greener) Christmas: Put your gifts in re-used gift bags. Use cloth gift bags, these will hold up [...]