Frugal Friday and Scrapbooking – The Real Deal

When I did scrapbooking in the past, it was using construction and printer paper.  It was making do with flourescent colors and pictures printed on printer paper on a color printer.  It was putting the pages in a 3-ring binder for my students to look at.
Recently, I decided to do the real deal.  I bought [...]

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Sewing Saturday – Winter Wardrobe

I’ve begun the monumental task of sewing my winter wardrobe.  I’m using the pattern (Simplicity 3887) that I used for summer blouses, using two versions of long sleeves.  Three shirts will have loose long sleeves and five will have long sleeves gathered with elastic at my wrists.  It took forever to determine the correct length [...]

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Frugal Friday – June 20

Have you ever found a really good deal on chicken?  You know, one of those deals that’s so good that it’s only on sale for one day?
On May 5 (Cinco de Mayo, yes, I know that’s over a month ago–I’m just now going through my photos), I noticed in the Randall’s ad that frozen boneless, [...]

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Frugal Friday – Napkins Revisited

When I first posted in February that I was going to try cloth napkins instead of disposable paper ones, I didn’t know that they would work out so well.  After buying my initial set of napkins on sale at a retail store, a coworker gave me more that she had found at a dollar store.  [...]

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Frugal Friday – The Drugstore Game – May 23

I had a fun time with the Drugstore Game this morning.
A quick explanation of the Drugstore Game:

CVS (with free store card) and Walgreens
Search their ads for sales that involve Extra Bucks (CVS) or Register Rewards (Walg)
When you purchase certain items, you get store credit/coupons (however you want to call them) for the next week (they [...]

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Frugal Friday – Simplicity Patterns

Last weekend, I took advantage of the President’s Day sale at JoAnn Fabrics.  Normally,  Simplicity patterns sell for about $16 each.  JoAnn’s was selling them 5 for $5 with a limit of ten patterns.
It was all I could do to hold off for the two weeks I had been waiting for the sale.  I even [...]

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Frugal Friday – Patiently Waiting for Sales

 
I’ve been wanting to purchase some new clothing patterns.  I’ll go to a fabric store, examine patterns, decide to procrastinate, and leave.
This week, I walked into JoAnn Fabrics, finally committed to a pattern, walked to the counter, had my coupon and wallet in hand, and hit a roadblock.  I was told that my 40% off [...]

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Frugal Friday – Cloth Napkins

Recently, I noticed that I was going through quite a few paper napkins. To cut back, I decided to purchase a set of cloth napkins.
It wasn’t as easy as I expected to find a large enough set for a low price. Resale shops didn’t have more than 4-6 in a set, if they [...]

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