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Trying Out Cloth Bread Bags

April 22, 2010

You all know that I make all of our bread. I have for a long time. All the time that I’ve been making it I’ve been buying plastic bread bags. They work just fine but there’s something about spending money on an item that I intend to throw out that gets to me. I’ve written [...]

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Cloth Napkin Rings

April 12, 2010

I finally got tired of looking at my Fall/Winter cloth napkins this week. I pulled out my enormous stash of fabric and began looking for spring-looking scraps that were big enough for napkins. I found some and began cutting them out (Word for the wise – as soon as you set your rotary cutter down, [...]

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Easter, In Perspective

March 24, 2010

Holidays can be difficult when you are living frugal or you’re on a strict budget. Your spouse expects things, your kids expect things, and the commercial mentality of our culture feeds those expectations. Easter is coming up, and while it’s not nearly as expensive as Christmas, it still carries it’s own presumptions. I try my [...]

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Homemade Draft Guard

January 11, 2010

We all know the benefits of keeping the cold air out of your home during the heating season. It’s pretty much common sense that if you have cool drafts coming in then your furnace/wood stove/heat source is going to have to run more often. My house is drafty and poorly-insulated.We have a programmable thermostat to make [...]

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Making Throw Pillows

January 4, 2010

You may remember a while back I wrote about my un-decorated house. I lamented that there wasn’t much style or really any purposeful decorating in my home. I’ve done little things here and there but now that Christmas has passed I really have a chance to get things under control. I’m excited to share a [...]

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