Nope, it's not a post about diapering! I stumbled upon a brilliant suggestion through Clothesline Alley last week that I sure hope it going to work for me, and just had to pass it on to you. Here it is: Stop using shampoo and conditioner. What? you say. Why on earth would I want to do that? ...

Does anyone else feel overwhelmed with the things that they need to do right now? Since spring hit, it feels that life has been just one blur of busyness, trying to fit in all of the things that I need or want to do. I'm not sure that the reason is Spring necessarily, but rather ...

A quick announcement... the winner of the incredible budgeting software system from YouNeedABudget.com is:Amy!Congratulations- I hope you love it as much as we do!And for those who didn't win, but were interested in buying the software anyways, you can do so here. Arkayne = window.Arkayne || {}; Arkayne.baseurl = 'http://www.arkayne.com'; Arkayne.go = function(e, a, view, cid, gid) { ...

I spent most of the day working on my garden (so exciting, I can't wait to show pictures soon!), so I am exhausted and ready for a relaxing evening, but as requested, here are a few of the recipes I used in my Frugal Cooking Carnival menu (you can see pictures for the salmon melts ...

As I work away on my calculations and post for tomorrow's Frugal Cooking Carnival, I thought I would just quickly post a simple, but very nutritious stew that I made for my 11 mth old baby the other day. This stew would be appropriate for any baby that has already successfully been introduced to all the ...

At long last, the greatly anticipated Frugal Cooking Carnival is here! My challenge in doing this was two-fold--1) Trying to figure out how we could eat more frugally than we usually do (without sacrificing nutrition- it's only worth it to me to be frugal if I can keep nutrition a priority). 2) The second challenge was ...

All right, I've dug in and done a little bit of research and here's what I've come up with on the issue of returning #7 plastics for a full refund-- it really is true! Large chain stores all over North America are actually doing this, as concerned parents bring in their baby bottles, sippy cups, ...

For those who visited the site yesterday, you may have noticed that it looked very different from normal and had a few quirky things going on. I was having some work done, which ended up taking much longer than anticipated. Had I known how long it would last, I would have warned you about it. ...

And I couldn't be more excited to share with my contribution to all the giveaway goodness going on this week in the blogosphere! This is actually so timely considering my post last night, and the recent talk of grocery budgets, etc. I am thrilled to be offering one budgeting software system, from YouNeedABudget.com to one very blessed ...

Here's a comment from my recent post on rising grocery costs that I wanted to respond to: Do you have that low of a grocery budget because you have to or because you want to (ie: pay off your mortgage faster?) Because sometimes I think we spend so much time on keeping our budget low (because ...