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Back to School Three Ways: Public High School

We are now on part three for the Back to School Three Ways series.  The first post covered the back to school items that were common among my college, public high school, and home school kids.  That was followed by back to school for college.  Today, the focus is back to [...]

Back to School Three Ways: College

In my previous post, I covered the back to school items that were common among my college, public high school, and home school kids.  Today, I’m going to focus solely on college and what we have learned after one year.

Books

Books are amazingly expensive!!  And it seems that they get [...]

Back to School Three Ways

Back to school for our family has been very interesting this year as I have a college sophomore, a senior in public school, and a junior in home school.  While there are similarities in back to school shopping for each, there are also big differences.  But, the real challenge is how [...]

Mega Swag Bucks Friday!

It’s Mega Swag Bucks Friday again!!  You could get 30 to 1,000 Swag Bucks in one search!!  Swag Bucks is the easiest money you’ll ever earn doing an activity you do everyday – searching.  If you haven’t signed up for Swag Bucks, learn more about it [...]

Homemade Yogurt

I recently made my own yogurt for the first time.  I couldn’t believe how easy it was and how wonderful it tasted!

There were a couple of reasons that I decided to try this.  First – to save money!!  Homemade yogurt is typically cheaper.  I know there [...]

New Rebates



Here are two new rebates in addition to the ones I talked about here.  Remember to print out the rebate forms right away as they do tend to disappear before the rebate period is over.

Schick Hydro Try Me Free – Buy one Schick Hydro razor between 6/14/10 and 8/18/10 and get up [...]

Homemade Cleaners

One thing I noticed pretty early on in my frugal journey was the outrageous price of home cleaners!!  It happened when I was cleaning the wood floors and we ran out of our usual spray cleaner.  One bottle of that cleaner was over $4 and I just couldn’t get myself to buy it again.  [...]

Self-Watering Garden Containers

Well, this is the year I’m finally doing it –  planting a vegetable garden!!  Technically, I had a small vegetable garden last year, but I didn’t plant it.  My friend planted it for me and it consisted of a tomato plant, a green pepper plant and some herbs — all in containers.  I didn’t [...]

Cub vs Rainbow

Last week I received a Cub Coupon booklet in the mail.  Today there was a Rainbow coupon booklet in the mail.  This has me thoroughly over-excited!!

As you may know I used to shop almost exclusively at Rainbow and typically on my way home from work every few nights.  I very rarely used [...]

Couponing for Community Update

Well, the pantry move is still in process, but I was able to pull out quite a few items for PRISM.  Here’s what you’re looking at:

2 Swiss Miss hot chocolate (this is a staple for us Minnesotans!) 2 cans kidney beans 1 bean and bacon soup [...]