Today was a record breaking day in the canning department: 41 quarts of tomatoes and 15 pints of salsa. We’ve never done that much in one day. We started at 9:30, and most of us worked almost all day. The kids escaped at 6 to go play soccer, but I didn’t pull the last...
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I got a big ol’ comment written on the previous post in response to some questions and realized maybe it warranted a post of its own. First of all absolutely, yes, I’m planning to post some of the recipes not in my book as I mention them. Although the majority of my favorites are...
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Click here to join the $75 a Week Grocery Challenge Click here for a great perspective on the month: 30 Days of Something Different ———— Today was the best day of home-school so far this week. We’re getting a bit more used to getting up earlier. We’ve fine-tuned our school/chore charts so that they’re...
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Note: if you want to see who else has joined the $75 Grocery Spending Challenge, click on the green words that say “Mr Linky” in the previous post. So far 30 other bloggers have joined! ———– We started school again this week, which is leaving me with about one brain cell’s worth of energy...
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How much money can your family save at the store this month? I’m going to try to spend no more than $300, or $75 a week. You can set your own goal for your family. Click on the picture above to see the details. The idea is not really to have a competition, but...
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In previous years I’ve done a big shop the day before the beginning of the spending challenge and counted it as the previous month’s budget. This time I did a medium shop and since we didn’t actually eat any of the food I bought til September, I decided to count it in the September...
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Two out of the last three Septembers, my family has done something called “30 Days of Nothing”.  You can check out the details by clicking the link in my sidebar, but basically we’ve spent a month experimenting with spending a little less money.  Seeing how far we could stretch our resources and what we...
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We did it! I still have $6 left from the $200 I stuck in my wallet at the beginning of the month. Keep in mind that I also went a couple hundred over budget stocking up during August (doing–ahem– crazy things like spending $11 on coffee creamer- yikes!) So really we probably spent $400...
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Today was a writing day for me.  I headed off to the coffee shop at 9 or so, and came home at 5.  When I got home, my wonderful hubby had run all the kids through their school, made tomato soup for lunch, got everyone to do their chores and them took them all...
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