shopping

On a Budget? Try the Dollar Store for Christmas Gifts

December 17, 2010

I’m notoriously frugal — I don’t like to part with my hard-earned money and get very creative when it comes to buying things I need for my family. One of the things I know to do very well is taking advantage of dollar stores. Are you on a budget this holiday season? Then consider going [...]

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Wordless Wednesday — Shopping with Kids

June 24, 2010

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I Don’t Like to Shop For Myself

August 7, 2009

My birthday is this month – I am a Leo, can you tell? – and Macy’s and GAP and Ann Taylor send me birthday cards with special sales coupons. So I actually ventured to the mall today, for once not with Landon to see the puppies and the dollar carousel but to see if I [...]

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How to Save a Lot of Money at CVS and Other Drugstores

August 4, 2009

(This is the second installment of my “How to Save a Lot of Money at…” articles. Here is how I save a lot of money at supermarkets.) While Landon was in preschool for a few hours today, I went to CVS to finally get some pictures printed off of my camera – my parents in [...]

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How to Save a Lot of Money at the Supermarket

July 18, 2009

I haven’t written about my frugal ways in a while, so here we go — I wanted to share how I saved 30 percent off my supermarket grocery bill! Don’s sister Lisa invited us to attend Much Ado About Nothing at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival at Boscobel, and I went to A&P to pick [...]

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Four Tips on How to Maximize Space in Small Homes

May 27, 2009

When Don and I and our 11-months-old son moved into a small apartment in 2007, I knew I had a challenge on my hand. The apartment was only about 700 square feet, if that. After we moved in, I realized how small the place was after vacuuming for the first time. “Honey, I only have [...]

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Save Your Child’s Hearing — Avoid Noisy Toys

April 16, 2009

I wanted to let you know what happened after my first post about noisy toys and finding out that they can be very dangerous for children’s hearing. I went through all of Landon’s noisy toys and listened to them. I have to tell you, I tossed out most of the ones that made so many [...]

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How to Save Money on a Saturday — Coupons and Church Sales

March 29, 2009

Today was a great day, and even better — a frugal day. We got up after 9 a.m. (somehow Landon seems to know that it’s the weekend, during the week he gets up around 7:30 a.m. I needed that sleep, I had been up until 2 a.m. again blogging!) and ate a healthy breakfast. I made [...]