My Favorite Bargins

I am always looking for a great bargain. I don't want to be known as a tight wad but as someone who is a good steward with God's money! I love to see how far I can stretch a paycheck, because my hubby works so so hard for them!

Warning - I AM AN AMAZON JUNKIE. Just wanted to throw that out there.

1. Diapers - I get my Pampers, size 4, diapers for $0.20 a piece at Amazon. I have not found them cheaper anywhere else.

Amazon has this great "Subscribe & Save" program. If you sign up to have automatic delivery of household/baby items, Amazon knocks off 20%. And you don't have to do anything to reorder. They just come how often you like (1 month/3 months/etc.)

2. Toilet Paper - My hubby is a Charmin Man :) I get my Charmin Ultra Soft from Amazon too. For $28.56, I get 10 packs of 4 double rolls for a total of 40 double rolls. That is $0.71 a roll. Who wouldn't like getting 40 rolls of TP delivered to your door? And it doesn't take up any cart room.

3. Laundry Soap - I don't pay anything for my soap, other than the original cost to make it. Make your own - use this link

4. Chicken Stock - instead of buying chicken bullion cubes, I buy Instant Chicken Broth (it's a powder) and use 1 tsp. per 1 cup of water. For $2.60, you can make a lot of stock, and have no more aggravation trying to break up that dry cube. A lot of folks make their own broth, but this works great for me!

5. Milk - I love getting my milk at Walgreens. The normal price for 1 gallon of milk is $3.79 (Or around there) and every couple weeks, it goes down to $2.79. Now that's a low price. Our Wal-Mart milk is $4.04.

If I think of any more, i'll let you know. But those are some of my favorites. I would love to hear yours too :)

DIY Project - Help Needed

I got this great stool from Goodwill for $2.50! It's so awesome. Now, I plan on painting it and stenciling a word/phrase on the seat. This is where I need your help!

An example, that I don't want to use, is TIME OUT.
Ryan's suggestion was HAUNCHES HERE. Yeah I don't think i'll use that either.

DIY Project

So I've been wanting to spruce up Oliver's room and needed something for his walls. I plan to get a shelf of some sort for his tractors. But I also wanted something else too. So I made this...

Organized Fabric

I finally have organized my fabric...

I found these white boards on Amazon. I thought they would be a lot thicker, but they are more of a very heavy card stock. So I used 2 for each piece of fabric.

I feel so much better now. Oliver can no longer string my fabric all over the house. When my hobby room is finished, I will store these on some type of bookshelf.

On another note, why hasn't anyone told me about The Nate Show on FOX at 1:00 every day? I absolutely love it!!!



What's For Dinner?

One thing that I want to work on is listening more - talking less. When those two are switched, I seem to either get myself in trouble or end up looking stupid. (Which after years of experience of making myself look ridiculous, I have learned to accept those times with grace). 


Nonetheless - Talk Less. Listen More. Or at least, carefully examine what i'm going to speak, before it gets spoken.


Conclusion - cooking doesn't require talking. Just smelling, tasting and drooling.
Here's what I've been cooking...

Photo from Lauren's Latest