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Gift Guide for the Lady in Your Life

Do you still need to do your Christmas shopping? Wondering what to get the lady in your life? Sometimes the people closest to us are the hardest to shop for.

It takes time to search the Internet or brave the mall to pick out a gift for your girl! Instead of using your weekend to shop, take some pointers from my gift guide below and you will have a happy momma this year!

No worries if you are a last minute shopper. These gifts are all found on Amazon which offers two-day shipping. This is a great time to sign up for that free trial of Amazon prime if you are not a member. You will get free two-day shipping and will have a no hassle Holiday. Try Amazon Prime 30-Day Free Trial

So if you don’t want to brave the retail lines this week, shopping online is still a great option. I’ve compiled a list of gifts for you that are budget-friendly and a one-stop shop… Amazon! There is still time to shop all these gifts listed below and you will receive them by Christmas.

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December 16, 2016 by Sarah | 1 Comment

Blogging

Why I Started a Frugal Living Blog

Why I Started A Frugal Living Blog – My Story

Reading through my posts, it occurred to me that I haven’t given you, my readers, much information as to why I chose to start a frugal living blog. I’ve been posting my recipes, deals, and tips, but before I go on… Let me tell you a bit more about myself!! Update: I now have a Self-Care blog too! You can check it out here.

Since I was young, I have always had an interest in writing. I aspire to write a book one day. (As I continue to research blogging, I’m finding it is possible with an e-book). I know I am not the best writer out there, but I enjoy it, so that is good enough for me – and hopefully you too 😀.

I have also enjoyed writing in journals throughout the last few decades of my life. Writing is so therapeutic and relaxing. It feels good to put those words on paper!

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December 16, 2016 by Sarah | 2 Comments

Meal Planning, Save Money

Christmas Budget Brunch – Yummy & Frugal

Christmas Budget Brunch

Looking forward to Christmas brunch this year? Me too! I love the Holidays and food is a very important part of all the celebrating. After watching the kids open gifts, a yummy brunch is a great way to feel full inside and out. Prepare your brunch with love and the family will love it!

Maybe you are hosting guests and would like to have something to offer them as they wake up on Christmas morning.

I’m thinking of memories of Dad making his infamous pancakes, sausage scent filling the house and that special syrup reserved only for Holidays, Mom would whip up. #makingmehungry

Christmas brunch is a special time to sit as a family and remember what the Holidays are all about. After spending money on gifts, decorations, and Christmas cards, it is usually the last thing on one’s mind…to buy more food for the morning.

If you enjoy living a frugal lifestyle or the Holidays are hitting your budget hard this year, this post will help you come up with a great brunch, that will break your belt buckle and not your bank!

Let’s try to keep our cost down to under $12 for our entire Christmas brunch. This brunch will easily feed six hungry mouths. Here are some awesome food ideas that will wow and keep your loved ones, big and small, full all Christmas morning.

**This post contains affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase I will receive a small commission, so thank you so much!!!

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December 13, 2016 by Sarah | Comments Off

Save Money

Play the drugstore Game at CVS and Save a Ton

Saving Money at CVS

What is the drugstore game? Saving a ton at your favorite drugstore. When we think about saving money, most of us do not think “drugstore” as our go-to place. In fact, just walk into any given drugstore and you will find products with a high markup and you can usually find said products much cheaper at your regular grocery store or big box stores. Yet, if you play the drugstore game, you can not only save on groceries but toiletries and household products as well, and sometimes get your favorite products for next to nothing or free.

For the purpose of this post, I am going to teach you how to save at my favorite drugstore, CVS. However, you can play the drugstore game at other big drugstores such as Walgreens and Rite Aid.

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December 8, 2016 by Sarah | 2 Comments

Save Money

Ultimate Budget Gift Guide

Is anyone feeling a little stressed out right about now? Only a few more weeks until Christmas and it is crunch time for gift shopping. We are looking at that time of the year when most of us break our budgets because we needed that last-minute gift.

Ultimate Gift Giving Guide — Find all of your Holiday gifts on a budget!

Sure, buying ahead is great, but we don’t always know what to gift that certain someone and so we do what we humans do best, procrastinate!

YIKES! It is December 23rd and we need a gift for grandma…or our husband…or our neighbor that got us something and we didn’t get her anything. Sound familiar? What to do? What to do?

One option would be to crawl under a rock until Christmas is over, but that won’t solve anything.

All jokes aside, you’ve caught my gift-giving guide early enough that there is still time to shop and leave those last-minute gifts as things of the past. If we plan ahead, we can keep away from the mall crowds, keep to our budget and keep our sanity.

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December 5, 2016 by Sarah | Comments Off

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