Housekeeping Printables

Time-Warp Wife has some adorable housekeeping printables available here. Choose from her June or July housekeeping calendar and her weekly meal planner. So cute!

Save Money Monday

This saving money tip is so easy. Anyone can do it!

Drink Water.

That's right, Drink Water!! By drinking water with 2 meals and snacks each day we save an average of $11.50 each week. This doesn't even include the money saved on doctor visits and dental fillings that are prevented by our extra water consumption.

Money Saved Example
Before water diet:
Milk~ 3 gallons a week, $10.50
Apple Juice~ $4
Sweet Tea~ $2, making it 3-4 times each week.
Soda~ $0 (We don't buy soda. We get our soda fix at Nana's house on the week-ends)  ;)
Total: $16.50

After water diet:
Milk~ 1 gallon a week, $3.50
Coconut/almond milk~ 1/2 gallon a week, $1
Apple Juice~ $0 (I only buy %100 juice when it's free with coupons)
Sweet Tea~ $.50, making it once per week
Soda~ $0
Total: $5.00

Savings: $11.50

I know drinking water can be especially unpleasant for some children. My kids would like to drink soda with every meal. They would probably put it in cereal if they had their way. Thankfully, they have not thrown any fits or even complained much about our water drinking habits.
Do you have any tips for getting kids to drink more water?

Save Money Monday

I'm going to *try* to do a series on saving money. I can't promise I will have a new Save Money Monday post every week, but I'll try. :)

One of the ways we save A LOT of money is by using coupons. Some people think if you use coupons on groceries you are eating hamburger helper and frozen dinners, but you can eat a healthy food and use coupons. Did you hear that? You can use coupons and eat healthy! One way to do this is to use coupons for your personal care items. I bought 9 toothbrushes, 6 packs of floss, and two sticks of deodarent at Kroger (pictured below) and they were FREE after coupons. This frees up money for you to spend on items where coupons are not available, usually fresh produce. Occasionally there are coupons available for natural food items. See the chips in the picture? They are all natural, from the healthy food section at Kroger and they were FREE after coupons. I used this opportunity to stock up on chips. I bought 6 bags. I'm not saying chips are healthy, but these are a better choice than Doritos. The whole wheat and veggie pasta was also FREE after coupons. I only bought 6 because I still have a good stock in my pantry from the last sale. I paid $2.25 total for the 3 almond milks and 1 coconut milk after coupons. The Mom's Best Cereal was $.24 each after coupons. If you stock up on items when they are well below retail price you will rarely have to pay full price again. If you'd like to start using coupons, go to moneysavingmom.com and click on 'store deals' to find out the best deals at your local grocery store each week.

My total for these groceries was just over $19 and about $6 of that was sales tax!

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See The Light ~ Free DVD offer

Art is one of those subjects that often gets pushed to the back burner of our homeschooling. Even though I love art, I couldn't draw a stick person to save my life. I have sent my children to art classes, but it's difficult to take them to all of the extra curricular activities and have you seen what some people charge??! Well, last week I received a free sample copy of See The Light DVD art classes. We watched them today and they are wonderful. I love that she uses basic supplies, incorporates truth from the Word, and the best part..... we don't have to leave the house! You can purchase the whole 9 volume series containing 36 lessons for $99.99. See The Light is still offering a free sample DVD. Go here to request yours. Enjoy!

Get a free tree at Lowe's on April 23

If you are heading out to Lowe's tomorrow for this free kid's workshop then make sure to pick up a free tree while you're there!

Great Lands End Sale!

Lands End is having a family and friends sale through April 11. You can get 30% off your order and free shipping when you use the promotion code FAMILYSHARE and pin 6319. 

Here are a few deals I found:

Get this boy's Microfleece hat for $1.39!

These girl's trekkers are only $9.79!

They also have boy's trekkers for the same price.

This women's t-shirt is $3.49!

Time to stock up on t-shirts!

Free Veggie Seeds & Gloves from Annie's Naturals

Annie's Naturals and Root4Kids.com are inspiring kids to dig real food.
When you buy 2 Annie's products between 1/15/2011 and 4/30/2011 you can fill out this form to get a free gardening gift pack. I hope these gloves will inspire my kids to pull more weeds ;)

Kid's Workshops

We love going to these workshops. I like to let my older kids try to do the project on their own. This gives them a chance to work on following directions. If they skip or alter a step their project won't turn out just right. I'm hoping this is teaching them to pay closer attention to directions.

You can make this window birdhouse at Lowe's on April 23. The birdhouse sticks to your window so you can actually see the nest. Pretty neat. Sign-up here.

Home Depot will be offering this planter/basket on April 2. This looks like a fun spring project. I'm picturing it filled with herbs in little terra cotta pots. Find all the info here.

Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day

Mark your calendars! Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day is April 12, 2011. We rarely go out for ice cream, so this is a special treat. In the past, our local Ben & Jerry's took donations for a local charity and offered customers extra scoops for each $1 donation they made. You can get all the details here.

Free Apron from Red Gold

Sign up here to get a free apron courtesy of Red Gold! This offer is only available to residents of KS, MN, MO, OK, TN, or TX. Available while supplies last.

Free Sample of Jergens lotion

Go here to request a sample of Jergens lotion.

Free Tomato Seed Packet

Need help getting started on your veggie garden this spring? Well, sign up here for a free Heinz Tomato Seed Packet courtesy of Heinz and Red Robin.
Thanks, The Big Red Pot!

FREE Gardening Planner Printables

5 Dollar Dinners has some great garden planner printables available. I can never remember when I planted certain things or when they were ready for harvest. The Garden Harvest printable will solve this for me! I just have to remember to fill in it. She also has a garden planner, square foot gardening, and container gardening printable.

Free sub from Lenny's!

Go and 'like' Lenny's Sub Shop on facebook and you will be able to sign up to receive a coupon for a free 1/2 pound sub! The coupon will be e-mailed to you.

Free Book: The Pocket Declaration of Independence & Constitution

Get a free book! The Pocket Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States. Limit one per customer.

Send a box of Kleenex

Make someone's day. Send them a Share Package of Kleenex - for free! It's always fun to get something unexpected in the mail. Surprise someone you love with a little box of Kleenex and a note from you.
Note: you can only send ONE Share Package to ONE recipient. 

Free Beginning Sewing e-book

Teach someone to sew – or learn yourself! Sewing is a wonderful hobby that teaches a wide array of different skills – from hand-eye coordination to fraction and mathematics applications. Plus, it’s lots of fun and inspires creativity. Janome has created a free E-Book download that provides the basics of this rewarding hobby. This short, simple e-book even contains an easy napkin project to get you going! Download yours today, and start sewing!
If you haven't checked out the free beginning sewing webinars, you can do so here.

$20 Amazon gift card for only $10

Living Social is offering a $20 Amazon card for $10 today only! This is a great deal and it never expires!
To make it even better if you get 3 friends to buy this deal, yours will be free. So I would be thrilled if you decided to purchase one through my link. :)

Rare Egg Coupon!

You can print a coupon for $.55 off 2 one dozen cartons of eggs at cellfire.com under 'printable coupons'. This will double at Kroger to $1.10! 

Star Wars Legos @ Aldi

We stopped by Aldi yesterday and found these Star Wars Legos marked way down.

 Legos never go on clearance so this was a pretty exciting find. I guess they had these in stock for Christmas and are now trying to get rid of them. My kids *love* legos and so do their friends so these will make great presents for someone. They had other lego sets marked down too. I went by Target last night and looked to see what these were selling for there:
Freeco Speeder  Aldi~ $6.99   Target~ $24.99
Snow Trooper  Aldi~ $3.99  Target~ $11.99
Check at your local Aldi soon to see if you can find some great Lego deals.