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5 Tips To Saving Money and Your Sanity When Shopping for Back To School Clothes
Shopping for school clothes can take a bite out of your pocket book if you’re not careful. For many parents, the very mention of the words ‘shopping for school clothes’ can bring on a headache. Buying new school shoes, backpacks, clothes and all the other necessities needed to dress your child for school can be overwhelming […]
Continue readingMake School Supply Shopping Easy
Shopping for school supplies can be nerve wracking to say the least but here are some simple tips to follow to stay sane during the back to school rush. Most schools offer a list of required school supplies that your child will need. If you can get your hands on a copy early enough you can […]
Continue readingFire Safety Tips – Infographic
With all the wild fires burning across the country, I’ve been thinking a lot about keeping our important paperwork and valuables safe. I’m making backups of digital pictures and files (including all sorts of things I have saved that are either already part of the HBHW website or things I’m working on), copies of old […]
Continue readingInexpensive Easy To Make Christmas Gift Ideas – Gifts In A Jar
One of my favorite gifts to give is a jar of a baking, soup or drink mix. They are always well received. They make the perfect inexpensive and easy to make Christmas gifts. Love to make gingerbread cookies? Why not put the ingredients in a jar; write the recipe on red construction paper; cut the […]
Continue readingHow To Save With Coupons
I have to admit, I haven’t always been very successful using coupons. But there are ways to make them work better and get quite a bargain. I asked a few of my friends who save a lot of money using coupons to give me a few of their money-saving coupon strategies. The following article is […]
Continue readingSecond Hand Shopping
One of the easiest ways by far to save money on just about anything is to shop second hand. Shopping for previously used items is not only cheaper than buying new it helps to reduce consumption of new goods when perfectly usable items are already in existence. It reduces the amount of garbage entering the […]
Continue readingFrugal Grocery Shopping
Prices for anything from groceries to gas have been soaring the past few ones and our hard-earned dollars are challenged to stretch further. Now, we may be able to ride a bicycle around town if we can’t put gas in our cars. But, we have to eat. There’s no getting around that. So, we have […]
Continue readingBeverage Bargains
Beverages are one of the easiest places to save money on your food bill. In order to do this we have to be willing to let go of old expensive attitudes and open the door to newer, cheaper ones. All beverages besides water, milk, and fruit juice are luxuries. This includes kool-aid, soda-pop, coffee, cocoa, […]
Continue readingChicken Tips And Bargains
It used to be that the cheapest and tastiest chicken you could buy was the whole chicken. This is no longer the case. With all of the low-fat and weight loss paranoia around today, chicken breasts have become as popular and available as sirloin steaks used to be in the 1960’s, when meat and potatoes […]
Continue readingBest Buys For Your Budget
At most markets there are certain foods that are almost always good buys. In different areas of the country these foods will vary, sometimes considerably. For instance Grits are a great buy in the Southern US but in Australia they are impossible to find. Conversely, there are good buys in Australian supermarkets that I will […]
Continue readingStore Bought Convenience Foods that are Usually Good Buys
When it comes to Convenience Foods, most of us are coming from 2 opposite sides of the fence. We either love ’em or we hate ’em. I tend to be from the “Hate ‘Em-Camp” so you’ll have to overlook any obvious prejudices on my part. I’ll try to keep these prejudices under my hat the […]
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