Frugal Families Articles Database

Cleaning and Organizing

• Simple and Green Cleaning Supplies
• Simple Maintenance for your Home
• Organizing a Successful Garage Sale

Decorating on a Budget

• Thanksgiving Decorations on Limited Time and Money
• Surviving a Home Makeover

Back to School

• What is home schooling and is it right for my family
• Back to School Study Resources
• Exceptional Teachers
• Reducing the Cost of School Supplies
• Teaching Resources

Summer Fun and Safety

• Home Gardening Basics
• Gardening with Kids
• Great Family Camping Trips
• Perfect Picnics
• Summer Fun with Paper Plates

Inspiration

• Twenty Ways to Change the World for $50
• 12 Winter Blah Busters
• Simple Indulgences for March
• 5 Tips for Reducing Stress

Holidays

  Easter

• Easter Scrapbooking Ideas
• Family Activities for Lent and Easter
• Take the Expense out of Easter Celebration
• Check out our fun and frugal ways to decorate Easter eggs!

  Mother's Day

• Ten Ways to Celebrate Mother's Day
• Tribute to Magnificent Women
• Recipe for a Perfect Mother's Day

  Halloween

• Safety Tips for Trick or Treaters
• Hair-Raising Recipes
• Halloween Tricks to Make or Treat
• Frugal Halloween Costume Tips
• Frugal Halloween Party Tips
• Make your own Halloween Decorations
• Easy Costumes Kids can Make
• Quick Homemade Costumes
• Halloween Craft Projects for Kids
• Check out some great and ghoulish recipes here

  Thanksgiving

• How to have an Abundant Holiday Season
• Easy Yummy Recipes Using Cooked Turkey
• Frugal Easy Thanksgiving Dishes
• Holiday Leftover Ideas
• Easy, Yummy Leftover Turkey Recipes
• More recipes to make the holiday special.

  Christmas

• Great Gifts for $5
• Baking Christmas Memories-Rolled Gingerbread Cookies
• Simple, Inexpensive Christmas Decorations for Birds
• Ten Ways to make your Expectations from Driving you Crazy this Christmas
• I Just Love It!  Giving with Feelings
• Reducing Waste this Christmas
• Give Away:  A New Holiday Tradition.
• Joy of the Family Christmas Tree
• Scrapbooking Recipes for the Holidays
• Making for a More Simple Christmas
• Holiday Budgeting
• Keep the Joy, Ditch the Debt-Smart Spending During the Holidays
• Country Christmas Ornaments
• Thoughtful Christmas gifts-10 Cheap, Easy and Quick gifts.

Valentine's Day

• How to Have a Frugal Valentine's Day
• Valentines with your Kids
• Valentine's Day gifts on a Budget
• Romancing on a Budget
• Romance on a Budget - Love Is Patient, Kind, and Cheap!
• Family Valentine Fun

Frugality

• Hair Care Home Remedies
• Twelve Ways to Pay Less
• 25 Easy Money Saving Tips
• Laundry Help-10 Frugal Tips
• 7 Tips for Thrifty Living
• Saving on Groceries
• Living on What is Left
• Cheap Thrills-Entertainment on a Budget
• Frugal Living for Dummies-Book Review
• My Coupon Methods
• Freebie Princess in the Land of No Doubles

Homesteading

• Caring for Babies in the Coldest Winter

Simple Living

• Accepting a Life of Simplicity
• The Difference Between Needs and Wants
• Simplicity:  A Changing Lifestyle
• A More Simple Christmas
• The Best Christmas Gift you Can Give Anyone or Yourself.  Simplicity!
• The frugal Environmentalist

Kitchen

• How to Make Pumpkin Puree
• Holiday Leftover Ideas
• Preserving Your Pumpkin Harvest
• Freezing Homemade Baby Food
• Fast Food at Home
• Fresh Strawberries
• Help in the Kitchen:  20 Useful Tips
• Easy Frugal Breakfasts
• Baking Soda:  Not JUST for Cooking!
• Growing your own Herbs for Tea
• Keeping a Cooking Journal
• Creative Cooking for Busy Mothers
• Frugal Meal Planning
• Foods from Childhood
• Stir it Up-Fast and Easy Cooking!
• Fast and Easy OAMC Recipes!
• Fruit Pizza

Parenting

• Diaper Bag Essentials
• Teaching Teens the Value Money
• Keeping Kids Busy
• Importance of Play
• 20 Toys you Don't Have to Buy
• Shoestring Adventures
• Saving Money on Kids Clothing
• How to afford a big family

Kids Corner

• Lady Bug Rocks
• Creative Nature Crafts for Kids
• Making Candles from Old Crayons
• Preserving and Sharing Childhood Artwork

Work and Business

• 10 Easy Tips on How to work From Home
• Mom, want to boost your resume?
• 10 Tips on How to Write the Perfect Resume
• 5 Things you Must Avoid in the Job Interview

Money and Finance

• Why Manage your Nest Egg Yourself
• Turbo-Charged Financial Planning
• Don't Let your Finances Rule Over your Self-Esteem
• Build Your Own Safety Net Savings
• Beware, Debt Under Construction
• Surviving a Layoff in Your Family
• A Fresh Start for Family Finances in 2005
• 10 Ways to Boost Your Credit Scores
• 7 Things to Teach your Kids about Money
• 5 Money Rules Every Smart Person Should Know
• Create a Holiday Budget AND Stick to it!
• Money Saving Habits
• How to plug the leaks in your budget.
• Stress-The Link between Stress and Money
• Top 5 Overlooked Tax Deductions
• 7 Ways to Reduce your Income Taxes
• For Sale by Owner Home Sales
• The Pros and Cons of Debt Reduction and Credit Counseling Services
• What do you mean by, "too much debt"?

Crafting

• Creative Soap Crafts
• Scrapbooking on a Budget
• Tin Can Luminaries
• Microwave Cozies

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