Yesterday, The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird organized the school supply closet for her and Monkey Boy. Each fall we load it with supplies with things like pencils, paper, markers, scrapbook paper and poster board {for class presentations} so there’s no need for a last minute run to Target before the doors close. I bet there Read More >>
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How to Grow Your Own Food: Companion Planting; Thinking Ahead
Yesterday was the perfect day to transplant seedlings. It rained lightly, and every few hours there was about a one hour window of sunshine. Talk about perfect weather for planting seedlings if you ask me. Although this raised bed of Rainbow Swiss Chard doesn’t look all that exciting right now, take a look at the Read More >>
What’s In The Mail Mavis?
Yesterday was a ridiculously good day for mail. I received: 1 Archie Mc Phee catalog, FYI: if you are in the market for bacon flavored toothpaste or squirrel underpants… this is the store for you! A BIG FAT check from Ebates for $47.95. Umm Hello… please tell me you are signed up for Ebates because Read More >>
Week #24 On One Hundred Dollars A Month…
Last Monday I was able to pick up 2 gallons of milk & 2 packages of Nabisco Fig Newtons for $7.96. I was able to use a buy 1 gallon of milk and save $1.00 on Nabisco cookies coupon (I had 2 coupons) plus I used a double coupon on both… PLUS… get this… there Read More >>
Save money… Grow your own food…
Gee… What an interesting idea… Growing food… If you’re new around here you may not know we actually GROW food in our backyard come summer time… In fact 2 summers ago I grew over 1,300lbs of garden produce… Yep… How crazy is that? True… I did end up tying bags of zucchini to my neighbors Read More >>