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Meal Ideas -3

Cheapskate Stew – made with leftovers you already have on hand Mash potato soup - easy and quick, ready in 15 minutes. Uses leftover mash potatoes Chicken pie – inexpensive and easy Yum Yum green beans – different and easy 7 minute dinner – are you thinking what I am? Show me how   Only 3 ingredients Pepperoni Rolls – kid friendly and quick (17 minutes) Broccoli cheese...

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Frugal craft ideas

Today I was on one of the many mommy sites I love to visit, Mommykaboodle.com, and found a post full of great ideas. The post was basically about craft ideas that you can do with your kids that will not cost you tons of money. Some of the crafts used magazines, coffee cans, milk jugs and paper towel tubes just to name a few. This is something I will be adding to my Lifetips book since summer will be here...

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Some great money saving tips

The past few days I have come across a lot of interesting posts. Well, two of my favorite bloggers , CheapAzz.net and beingfrugal.net, came up with a combined total of over 250 tips to save money. I could not wait to share so that is why I am postin at 1:30am instead of in the bed, lol. Cheapazz.net has come up with 101 tips to save money, but in a classy way These two are my favorites. Number 21. use...

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Money Decisions

Since I have started on my debt journey I have become a little obsessed. You know, how can I save money,  how can I make some money, how to stretch my money, what did I do with all my money , how should I spend my money and how did I waste my money? But then I started thinking, I have made my share of bad money decisions (maybe a little more than my share) but did I ever make any good ones? Well guess...

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Groceries and money How much to spend?

A lot posts I read across the blogosphere have a lot to do with groceries and money. You know, “how much should you spend, how much is too much , what are other people spending” and stuff like that. It is really hard to come down with a definite dollar amount. Food is a need, a want, an addiction and just tastes sooo good. It appears to be that you need to spend as much on food that is required...