BBQ side dishes for a crowd! Everyone will love these easy and cheap summer side dishes at your next cookout, picnic, or potluck party. It’s easy to think of main dish ideas for a barbecue. Ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs, and grilled chicken never disappoint! But what about side dishes for your cookout? Whether you’re hosting a backyard gathering, or are…
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15 Day Declutter Challenge to Get Your House in Order…FAST!
Follow this 15 day declutter challenge to help you get control of your messy house fast! Use this step-by-step process to make decluttering your home finally feel possible. Do you feel like your home could use a good declutter? Sometimes it starts to feel like your clutter is multiplying all around you. Maybe your house always feels messy. And that’s…
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How to Create Your Own Self Care Kit (25 things to add!)
How to create your own self care kit! Ideas of what to put in your stress relief box, so you can pamper yourself when you need it most. We all know we’re supposed to be practicing self care regularly… … but it’s REALLY hard to make yourself a priority. Whether you have a super busy career, a bunch of kids,…
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15 Frugal Homemade Cleaning Products That Really Work
Frugal homemade cleaners that really work! These 15 DIY cleaning products are all natural AND a huge money saver over store-bought cleaning solutions. One of the easiest ways to save money on household essentials is to start making your own homemade cleaning products. It’s actually super easy! These homemade cleaning recipes are made with items you may already have on…
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How to Survive on a Low Income – Tips for Living on a Tight Budget
How to survive on a low income! These tips will help you live on a tight budget, manage your paycheck, and know exactly what to do after job loss or unemployment. When you’re trying to live on a tight budget, it’s a constant battle to keep your head above water. Stretching your income so it lasts an entire month feels…
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How to Spruce Up Your Home on a Budget (19 free & cheap ideas!)
How to freshen up your home on a budget! Free and cheap home upgrades to spruce up your home, and make it look nice inside. Now more than ever, our home is our sanctuary. So if you don’t switch things up every now and then… …it can start to feel a little stale. We can get REALLY sick of being…
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The Dirtiest Places in Your Home…and how to clean them!
The dirtiest places in your home, and how to clean them! These are the items with the most germs…but that we often forget about. They’re the spots you absolutely have to clean! It’s easy to see the messiest areas in our home. The ones that just scream CLEAN ME! But what about those places that look clean… …but are actually…
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How to Store Food so it Stays Fresh Longer (and you can stop wasting money!)
How to keep food fresh longer! Exactly how to store produce and food so it lasts longer. Eliminate food waste and stretch your grocery budget! Don’t ya just HATE when you go to the grocery store and stock up on all kinds of beautiful produce…only to end up throwing half of it away? It goes bad so quickly! Then you…
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31 Eat From the Pantry Recipes (to use up what you have!)
31 eat from the pantry recipes! These easy recipes from the pantry are perfect to make when money is tight, and you need to shop your pantry. Sometimes it feels like there’s no food in the house. You look around your pantry and freezer, and it feels like there’s just random ingredients…and no real meals. But you may be surprised…
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90 Things to Do When You’re Bored at Home (fun AND productive!)
Things to do when you’re bored at home! Here are 90 fun AND productive things to pass the time when you’re stuck at home. When you’re bored and stuck at home, it can feel like there’s just nothing to do. You sit there, sort of paralyzed and stuck… It doesn’t have to be that way! I’ve put together a list…
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How to Keep Your Fridge Smelling Fresh Naturally (10 easy tricks!)
How to keep your fridge smelling fresh! 10 easy ways to deodorize your refrigerator naturally, and remove those bad odors for good. We’ve all experienced it. You open the fridge and make a face…because it smells funky! You rack your brain and search the fridge, trying to figure out what the mystery source could be. Sometimes even after you find…
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10 Easy Tricks to Organize Your Closet on a Budget
How to organize your closet on a budget! 10 simple and inexpensive closet organizer ideas to finally have an organized, streamlined closet that functions. Isn’t it amazing how quickly our closets can turn into a hot mess? Between clothes, shoes, boots, purses, scarves, and jewelry, it takes no time at all before it’s disorganized and bursting at the seams. The…
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Simple Spring Cleaning Checklist (+ FREE pretty printable to keep you on track!)
A simple spring cleaning checklist! How to plan your spring cleaning, plus a free printable checklist to making tackling your spring cleaning easier and more organized! Most of us seem to get SO excited for spring…the warmer weather, blossoming flowers, and budding trees. It’s the brand new start we all need every year! Part of that fresh start is doing…
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10 Foodsaver Tips and Tricks to Save Thousands on Groceries
Foodsaver tips and tricks! How to use a Foodsaver vacuum sealer to stretch your grocery budget, and keep everything fresher longer! Are you spending more on groceries than you’d like? I think most of us are! We all know it’s smart to keep a pantry stocked with non-perishables. But what about fresh items like meat and produce? Sure, you can…
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10 Smartest Ways To Spend Your Tax Refund
10 smartest ways to use your tax refund! Here’s how to budget your tax refund so you can stretch it and really improve your financial situation. Nothing makes winter more bearable than a nice tax refund! There are lots of different ways you can use your refund, but why not use it to improve your life? (And I’m not talking…
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