I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.
On the agenda for today: Keep the woodstove fed Bake peanut butter cookies List a new batch of pillows and rugs on Etsy at 8pm EST Binge watch Clarkson’s Farm season 2 with The Girl {she has Prime} That’s it. That’s my plan for today. How about YOU? What’s on your list for today? ~Mavis Read More >>
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Yesterday for date day, the HH and I decided to check out Oysterhead Pizza in Damariscotta, Maine for lunch. And let me tell you Bob, we were not disappointed! We hadn’t even heard of Oysterhead Pizza before until we spotted their beautiful wood fired bagels in Rising Tide Co-Op a few weeks ago for the Read More >>
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When my kids were in elementary school, I sold handmade stitchery pillows and hooked rugs on Ebay as a fun way to earn some extra spending money. Then, a few years later, I decided to try selling my finished pieces on Etsy as the fees were less and the platform was geared more towards handmade Read More >>
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Backstory: It was getting late and the HH asked if there was anything he could do for me {awww… give the man some bonus points} and out of the blue and kind of jokingly I said … You could put some toothpaste on my toothbrush? And so he did and then he handed me my Read More >>
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One of my favorite seasonal fruits is the Meyer lemon. Typically only available during the winter months, Meyer lemons are slightly smaller than regular lemons and have a thinner, softer peel once ripe. Meyer lemons are similar in taste to a regular lemon, but just a tad bit sweeter. I actively seek them out every Read More >>
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