Cleaning Mechanic's Hands

Cleaning Mechanic’s Hands

Cameron and I recently discovered a trick for really greasy hands. He’s been working on our car  lot. I was in a minor fender bender. Anyways….back to the matter at hand…or rather on Cameron’s hands…haha! He wanted to wash his hands with something to get all the black car grease off and I thought we [...]

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Frugal Photo Friday - My New Sheets!

Frugal Photo Friday – My New Sheets!

I’ve been wanting new sheets, but I just couldn’t justify buying them. Afer all the sheets I had were doing the job. There were no holes in them or anyting. I was just tired of the pattern on them and they were getting faded and kinda grungy looking (even after being washed). So I kept [...]

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Unfrugal Photo Friday - Food Waste

Unfrugal Photo Friday – Food Waste

Today instead of a Frugal Photo Friday, I have an UNfrugal photo, actually two. They’re both of some wasted food. Sour Cream that was left out of the fridge way to long, veggie soup that I got tired of eating as a leftover so I just kept ignoring it, and some leftover oatmeal of Gracia’s [...]

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Frugal Photo Friday - Cheap Books, Free Clothes and the Magic of Vinegar

Frugal Photo Friday – Cheap Books, Free Clothes and the Magic of Vinegar

This Frugal Friday Photo I have a picture of Gracia playing with a really cool Arthur book. It has little figures from Arthur and throughout the book there’s slots you can put them. I got it for Gracia at a thrift store along with a coloring book that had stickers in it. Both books were [...]

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Frugal Photo Friday - Easy to Make Finger Paint

Frugal Photo Friday – Easy to Make Finger Paint

Need a fun activity for your kids this summer? Just whip up some frugal finger paint. All you need is water, cornstarch, and food coloring. Here’s the site I got the recipe from. Today was the second time I’ve done this with Gracia and she really likes it, especially since she gets to pick out [...]

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Frugal Photo Friday: Free Cat (or dog) Food

Frugal Photo Friday: Free Cat (or dog) Food

Want a cheap way to feed your cat (or dog) something other than dry food, without having to buy those expensive tiny cans of cat food? I was trimming the fat off of some chicken breasts before freezing them and I decided the pieces I’d normally just throw out I’d cook up for our cat [...]

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Frugal Photo Friday: Fuzzy and Grocery Bags

Frugal Photo Friday: Fuzzy and Grocery Bags

So you may be wondering why a picture of our cat is the frugal photo of the week…well mostly because I thought it was cute! =) When we got back from the grocery store a couple weeks ago and I was putting groceries up Fuzzy decide she wanted to get inside the bags, so I [...]

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Frugal Photo Friday: A Salvaged Apple

Frugal Photo Friday: A Salvaged Apple

It’s Friday! And here’s my second Frugal Photo Friday (sorry I skipped it last week). It’s not a very exciting picture, but I’m in a hurry, cuz I have lots to do to get ready for Gracia’s 3rd  birthday party (pictures next week!). So here’s an apple that…well as you can see, was getting old [...]

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Frugal Photos 2

Frugal Photos 2

Here’s Gracia again…you’re gonna see a lot of her! This was a cold night, so she decided she wanted to color on the floor by the heater and with her “bed buddy” (one of those heating pads you microwave, they feel great on your toes!). I think we can all learn a lesson from this [...]

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