Piecing together ways to save money, protect the environment, and keep kosher.
This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Is anyone else up tonight getting ready for Purim? Some years I am ready days in advance and others I am making costumes right up until the seuda! This year I... Continue Reading →
I love after-holiday sales, even for holidays I don't celebrate. I have gotten good at finding great deals after Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, Christmas, etc.! The key is to not think about whether you celebrate that holiday or not, but to think about things that might be on sale that you could use. There are... Continue Reading →
Several months ago I wrote about our ever-ending quest to find larger items to save money on. We finally “bit the bullet” and got rid of our cable. Even after reading about others who had done it, I thought we could never live without it. It was our one splurge – not eating out much,... Continue Reading →
(updated 1/15/26) Several years ago, my husband found a new way to save us more money and time. He uses our freezer to make our cooking more efficient and allows us to have meals we couldn't afford otherwise (like boneless breast recipes). Let’s start with chicken. When we get chicken for Shabbos, we do not... Continue Reading →
This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Many of your children have probably started back to school already. Mine do not start until next Wednesday. However, with this being the first year my little boys have gone to... Continue Reading →
(updated 4/9/17) A few years ago, right around report card time, my laptop got one of those horrible trojan worm viruses. It hid all of my files and I couldn’t access anything even though I could see the files were somewhat still there. It took me hours to do research and figure out how to... Continue Reading →
During my quest to save money, it has been much easier to find small ways to save. And those small ways can add up over the course of a year. Finding those big-ticket items can be more problematic. However, in the last two days I have found two new things that will together save us... Continue Reading →
(updated 6/26/18) Summer is always an expensive time of year, especially if you work full-time and need to pay for camp for your kids. If you are home it can still be expensive as you try to occupy your kids all summer! Here are the tips I have discovered over the years for making summer... Continue Reading →
This summer is the first in a while that I have had all the kids home with virtually no camp. Since I am back to full-time teaching and am off during the summer, it doesn't make financial sense to the send the kids to camp. So this year, it is "Camp Mommy." I have been... Continue Reading →
I am sorry to post this so late, but this summer I have all my kids home, which means less time to blog and do my own things! However, there are so many great things to do in the summer, many of which are cheap. Summer movies are great to avoid the heat and perhaps... Continue Reading →
Surviving on a tight budget 