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. […]
Make Your Own Groceries 35+ Recipes to Make at Home and Save
I like to make as many of our cleaners, beauty products and groceries at home as I can. By making them myself, I know what ingredients are used in each item. I started out slowly making our own groceries years ago and slowly expanded to cleaning supplies and beauty type products too. I don’t use […]
Simple Cooking Recipe, Tips to Make a Perfect Pie Crust
Making pie crusts from scratch can be intimidating. I know when I first started making them I felt like I would never get them right. They would turn out tough or stick to the board when I was trying to roll them out. My great grandma used to make great pies. But since she was […]
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, […]
3 Simple Goals for This Week
We were back to our normal schedule this week. My goals from this past week were all crossed off. I’m glad I added the goal of napping. There were a few days I really needed to rest about midday. My goals from last week, Make Two Recipes I made my two recipes this week. You […]
How to Make a Simple Budget in 5 Steps
So far in this series we’ve talked about clutter, meal planning, simplifying your day, and now it’s time to talk a little bit about money. I know in my lifetime I’ve found that the money we bring into our home is going to go somewhere. It can go to things that are important to us […]
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, […]
5 Tips to Simplify Your Grocery Shopping
Grocery shopping is one of those tasks that I like some days and other days I really wished I didn’t have to do it. But we all need to eat so it has to be done. Since I like to keep our grocery budget right around $300 a month for the 4 of us, I […]
Simple Cooking Recipe for Roasted Potatoes
I shared about how we automate some of our meal each week to help me get good food on the table without too much fuss. Since we have been talking about simple living I wanted to be sure to share a recipe or two for a simple cooking recipe. My idea of a simple cooking […]
