Easy and Quick DIY Homemade Orange, Clementine or Tangerine Alcohol
My homemade alcohol, after I already drank a bunch. I grew up in a house where alcohol was a fact of life. It was never a taboo thing, nor was it abused. I had alcohol from when I was a young age, a sip here and there, and my father drank alcohol a few times […]
Crafting With Nature
The kids and I recently went to an event that had as its activity green crafting, which was a great frugal activity that I wanted to share with you, as it was really fun, not to mention can be done entirely for free. All the crafting base materials were items found in nature, or things […]
8 Free Gallons of Expiring Milk- Cheese Making and Beyond
In my community we sometimes get deliveries of free past prime fruits and veggies, dry goods near or past their expiration date, and the occasional dairy product. On Wednesday, among the deliveries were 1 liter cartons of milk, and initially they told everyone they can take 4 per family. But barely anyone took. Why? Because […]
Eight essential checks to make before you borrow money
I am really opposed to taking out loans. Debt is bad and can cause a bad financial situation to get from bad to worse. Dave Ramsey and his followers talk tremendously about how much debt causes problems in life, and people work so hard to pay off debt that they’ve accumulated. I rarely ever think […]
Beginner’s Guide to Going Gluten Free- Part 1: What is Gluten and How to Avoid it
As one who is known among my friends and in my wider social circles as being off gluten, when friends get told that they or their kid needs to go off gluten, they often turn to me asking for help. It’s a scary thing, overwhelming at first, and people don’t know what to do. I’ve […]
Some Amazing Bargains I Got and an Exciting Deal I Made
Yesterday, I went into town to do some much needed produce shopping (other than picking up a head of lettuce, a cabbage, 4 red peppers, 6 cucumbers, and a bag of carrots on Thursday, I hadn’t bought any produce for 10 days); as a family that goes through a lot of produce, pickings were very […]
