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Posted in frugal living, in the kitchen on Feb 25th, 2010
Well, this should have been posted about three weeks ago when the groceries were purchased. But better late than never. Here are the groceries (and a few extras) that were purchased on my grocery shopping trip for February for about $180.
If you are following our year in groceries:
January
Posted in frugal living, in the kitchen on Jan 8th, 2010
As promised, I will be posting pictures of the Hoosier family grocery trips throughout 2010. It’s hard to describe how we buy in bulk and use the stock up principle when purchasing groceries. So rather than try to describe it, I will show you over the next year what our grocery shopping trips include. By [...]
Posted in frugal living, school & teaching on Jan 6th, 2010
I spend A LOT of time “playing.” You see, I teach kindergarten special education based on the idea that playing is learning. My kiddos are young and they still love to play! They also struggle to learn and find “learning activities” incredibly difficult; for many of my students, activities that seem to difficult induce extreme [...]
Posted in frugal living, homemaking, simple living on Nov 20th, 2009
1. Don’t go shopping and if you do have specific goals for your trip. The less you are in the stores where advertising and the enticement of “stuff” will be able to affect you. Most likely we don’t need the new things that we see. When we go shopping we go with a purpose in [...]
Posted in frugal living, homemaking on Nov 18th, 2009
Seems an odd thing to post, since we had our first snow yesterday. But winter is a great time to think about and work on preparations for the hot season again …
When we moved into our house, we hung black curtains on the sliding doors to our back deck. We chose black because it [...]