This month, Lifestyles decided to have a little fun with one of summer’s favorite pastimes - picnics & potlucks. Here are all the tips from around the channel, there’s recipes, tips and a few laughs thrown in for free.
Just because you choose to live thrifty doesn’t mean you have to throw a thrifty picnic. […]
Sheesh! Ten years? Where has the time gone? Today, my husband and I celebrate ten years of marriage. In that short amount of time, we have spent much accomplished much. We’ve created seven humans, purchased three houses, sold two houses, maxed out several credit cards, paid off almost all of those cards, gone grocery shopping over 520 times, […]
It seems to me that one of the biggest problems we face today is our societal adoption of the “Bigger, Better, More” theory. Many people who practice this way of living end up unable to satiate their desires and become generally unhappy with life. A shift in focus can sometimes be the greatest avenue to finding happiness. I had to learn […]
My husband is a naturally frugal man. Raised with twelve siblings, he grew up in a home that barely afforded life’s basic necessities. As you can imagine, being married to a woman such as myself, often makes for his frustration. As far as spending habits go, we are the odd couple. He has to be forced to buy […]
Today is my son’s birthday. We had a party with friends and family over the weekend, and tonight is just for the immediate family. He asked for barbecued burgers for dinner and said the leftover cake from Sunday is perfect and I shouldn’t get another, is this my kid or what?
We bought some gifts […]
I went to a book auction at one of the local libraries the other day and came back with a real treat. A lot of books and booklets about the Ingalls family - that’s the Laura Ingalls Wilder family, for those who didn’t spend a jillion years watching “Little House on the Prairie. Included […]
Way back in the day before, before there were booster seats, my grandmother would give us telephone books to sit on so we could reach the table easier. Every family I knew had a telephone book on hand for just such an occasion. Now of course we have special seats for the littlest guys.
As […]
Right now it’s raining - not too light but not so heavy I have to close the windows. I love summer rain storms. One of my favorite sounds is that of a gentle rain hitting the leaves. It reminds me of my summers camping with my family. I didn’t really hear that sound in […]
So we’re still chopping down trees and every now and then a fence panel is replaced. Until all the trees are chopped we can’t take down the whole fence, however. Our backyard is looking pretty bad with old doors, fence panels and more. We were going to call in a dumpster but we […]
I’ve been writing a lot about proms lately for a few of my b5 blogs. In my neck of the woods, the last weekend of May is prom, and right now teens all over are booking hair and makeup appointments and looking for the perfect dress. Through my two year stint as a wedding […]
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