Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!!

I have been a little behind on my posting with the holdiay craze around here.
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! We did. And of course it was crazy wonderful with the grandbabies and kids.

I have decided that with Christmas approaching I would let you all know that I will be cutting back a little on my posting . But doing a little better then I am now!!!! ha ha

I will not post again untill the 1st of the December and I hope to get in as many little frugal tips and advice I can while getting things ready for here.
I already have one tip but you will just have to wait!!!!!

Remeber your three R's!!!!!!!!! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!!!!!!!!

Frugal Funnies

Once again it is Monday! So here is one to surely make you smile.

Ravioli is one of my all time favorite comfort foods growing up. And as my granddaughter, Victoria shows you, it has become one of her must haves!

Christmas Decoraing

I LOVE to decorate for Christmas!! I have things placed in every room in the house.
I can't show you right now because I have a strict no decorating rule till after Thanksgiving!

I very seldom by anything new as decorations. If I di I wait until it is half off after the holidays.
A really great place to buy them is at yard sales. I have found a lot of very nice things.

A really inexpensive idea is to gift wrap your pictures that are all ready hanging in your house!
It makes it look like you have presents hanging everywhere. It's using things you already have!
And if you have been watching ahead of time, you have a nice stock of gift wrap waiting to be used. I always find new rolls of gift wrap at thrift stores and yard sales. Those saved pennies really had up!

Don't forget!!! Reuse! Recycle! Reduce!

Do It Yourself!!!

One of the most frugal things you can do, is to do home projects yourself.

Our family has grown beyond anything we ever dreamed! With 12 grandchildren we no longer had one room that they could all go play in and there were times I would actually trip over someone.

We had already taken out a wall to make the living room larger for holiday gatherings which made our 4 bedroom house to a 3 bedroom. Still room to play was no where to be found. The only empty room was a very small one and it was scheduled to become an office for me later.

We checked out the attic. The only access we had was a small hole in the ceiling of our closet and you had to be a size 0 to fit in it. We cut into the ceiling in the living room and my darling hubby went to work.

Half of the attic is for storage, the other half is for the play room. Because this is a frugal budget it will be a while before it is done. I refuse to blow the budget!!! So painting and a new floor will come as funds are availale. Actually, the flooring is the lamanate wood in the kitchen. When I get the new floor for that, the old goes upstairs. Same as the window! I want a greenhouse window in the kitchen, then the old goes upstairs!

I will have it play ready by Thanksgiving. Just not decorated or finished. But up there, I won't trip over little ones.

The picture of the stairs is what hubby is working on in the living room, with selves and under the stair entertainment center. This also is work in progress, just remember!!!! Baby steps!! Don't blow that budget!!!!! Take your time....

A lot of the wood is recycled from other projects and the 2 landings are actually free unusable counter tops my son got free from his job for us!

The railing is temporary, the one i have in mind is beautiful!!! With stained woood and iron spindles.

Use your 3 R's folks!!!! Reduce, reuse and recycle!!!!!!

Adding On

Have you noticed the new things on the site? I was very excited about figuring out how to add things to my blog!!! I know, I don't get out much.
I am looking everyday now to make my blog more attractive to look at. I hope you enjoy this work in progress!
Check back often.....
Remember the 3 R's: reduce, reuse, recycle!!!!!!

Good Morning!!

Have you started shopping for Thanksgiving yet?
We started last week. I buy a little bit every week so I don't just toss the grocery budget out the window. Last week Walmart had turkeys for 40 cents a pound! I bought two of them. I was going to get one giant Butterball but then came across the other ones. I bought 2 at a cheaper price then the one and came out 5 pounds ahead on meat! With my super large family I will definitly need both of them.
This week I will start buying other things I need.
I will make the noodles and gravy myself. I will buy stuffing though. I love Stove Top more then homemade! So does my entire family. Of course I will buy the cheaper brand but it is just as good to us.
I have one daughter that wants me to use instant potatoes. NOT HAPPENING!!!!!!!! I will make all desserts and rolls from scratch. It's a lot of work but I enjoy it.
One tradition I have is the cranberry sauce. It HAS to come from the can. When my son was little he thought that mommy made the ring marks on it and thought it was so cool of me. He is 24 and all though he knows better now (I hope) he always ask me if I made the rings for him.
I am excited about getting a new stove. I have a flat top one and only have 1 burner that works.
I found a reconditioned gas stove for $20 at an appliance store here and am getting it!!!!! We have been told it is very expensive to replace the burners on the flat top. I would rather have gas anyway.
Have a wonderful day and remember the three R's: reduce, reuse, recycle!!!!!!

Halloween Birthday Cake

I wanted to show you the Halloween birthday cake my daughter made. It was for my granddaughter Chole. She turned 2. Her birthday is the 25th so we gave her a fitting halloween theme.

I was very proud of my daughter's attempts. She has never decorated a cake before and I thought her first one turned out very well.

She is really getting into baking and decorating so I believe that she is getting those kind of things for Christmas.

She didn't like how it came out bt I reminded her that she is going to be her own worst critic. And we had to use frosting from a can, instead of buttercream so I think she still did just fine!

Frugal Funnies

Mondays always get a bad rap. So I thought that I would start the week with a couple of frugal funnies!!! Don't take these serious now, there just here to add a smile to your day!!!!

Are you tired of spending money on beds, houses, etc for your pets and they don't want anything to do with them? In these pictures we have frugal options!!! Just accidently leave blankets in an open dryer! You have instant kitty bed as my Fluffy will show you! Also, that little cat house they all ignore. Give it to the grandchildren! My grandbabies love them!! Andy is always climbing in ours so it has been moved to the play room! I don't have a picture of it, but the plastic rings with balls in them for cats? The one at my mom's house kept Andy busy for about an hour because he was determined to get that ball out of there! I laughed so hard at him I was crying.

I hope you enjoyed these frugal funnies and I will post more off and on as I catch them!!! Enjoy your day!!!!!

I haven't forgotten any of you!!!

Forgive me for being so behind!
About a month ago I had a nasty fall and messed up my right shoulder. Being right handed it has been difficult to sit at the computer for hardloy any time at all.
So I wanted to leave a note to txplain why I haven't been here and starting tomorrow I will be back at full force!!!!!
See you then!!!!