A great apple pie starts with the best apple pie apples. But how do you know which apple will work best in your apple pie? Keep on reading and find out. When I first started baking pies I would use whatever apple was on sale or the apples I had on hand to make pies. […]
Frugal Spring Cleaning Supplies, Simple and Effective Cleaners
Spring cleaning is easier with the right supplies. Don’t break the bank with costly cleaners, try these frugal spring cleaning supplies and save. Spring is a great time for renewal and a fresh new start with lots of sunshine coming into the house. But all that sun can reveal what winter left behind, dust, dirt, […]
Fall Cleaning, How to Clean House After a Messy Summer
Fall, I love fall. It’s a great time of year. The air is cooler after, so many hot days. The air is crisper, after so many muggy summer nights. I just love this time of year. But with the end of summer comes the need for fall cleaning. With all the busyness of summer coming […]
3 Tips to Help Get You Motivated to Clean
Do you ever have those days when you just don’t feel like cleaning? I know I do too. You look around and see so many things that need to be done but you just don’t feel motivated to do it. Use these 3 tips to help get yourself motivated to clean. There are always things […]
Spring Cleaning Checklist, Room by Room Cleaning Tasks
It’s easy to ignore the dust and dirt that build up in the winter. But when the dark clouds of winter clear and the bright sunshine starts streaming into the house in the spring, you realize just how much dust and dirt has built up over the winter. All that dust that you never really […]
How to Cook Dinner Every Night for Your Family, 10 Tips to Get it Done
Every night your family needs to eat dinner but making all those meals each week after a long day can be hard. Plus eating out can get way to expensive really fast when you are on a budget. But what if I told you I make dinner every night for my family and you can […]
My 8 Tips for Simple Living
This is the last day in the frugal simple living series. I’ve shared a lot of tips and ideas over the last 31 days. I hope you have found a few new ideas to help you live a more simple life. I thought on this last day of the series I would share with you […]
Scope, Tips to Simplify Your Christmas
Christmas is coming soon. I can’t believe we are already at the end of October. I was on Periscope this morning sharing a few tips about simplifying Christmas. If you missed the live broadcast you can view the video below and I’ve also typed out the tips below if you don’t like to watch videos. […]
Tips to Make Cooking From Scratch Manageable
When I was first married, I didn’t cook too much from scratch. I would make some of our meals from scratch, but often I would buy things like pie crusts ready made, tube biscuits or boxed dinner starts just to make getting dinner done after working a little easier. But after our daughter came along, […]
Scope, 3 Steps to Pare Down Your Clothing
Today on Periscope I talked about how to simplify your wardrobe. I’m one who has too many clothes, I always have. The thing is I don’t follow fashion trends and I tend to wear the same things over and over in my closet, leaving about 70 percent of the items unworn and unloved. If you […]
Change Your Thinking to Be More Content
Each day we are bombarded with calls for us to do more, be more, have more. We are also enticed to upgrade. From our phone and computers to the services we need to maintain our cars and homes. The world is constantly pushing us towards more and more. But the reality of all this more, […]
