October 6, 2008 at 6:34 (From the Kitchen, Frugal Frenzy, Natural Household Cleaners, Simple Living)
Do you have a cleaning product that you just absolutely love? Mine is the swiffer line. They are so so easy to use and work great. After a meal or just in the middle of the day, I can pull it out and start cleaning my floors. They look like I got on my hands and knees and had been srubbing for days. Well maybe not, but they do look good. The down side of using the Swiffer and the Swiffer Wet Jet is that you have to buy refills, which I don’t like so much. A box of refills can cost as much as $8.00 some times more. That is only for the dry ones, then you have to pay for the Wet Jet refills. Not only are they expensive but they are wasteful, just like paper towels.
The solution?…
You got it! A plain white t-shirt. (or any color!) How does it work? Well, it is simple. Just take some old t-shirts and cut them the same size as a swiffer refill cloth. Keep them in a drawer or a container in the laundry room or wherever, and when you need to clean up your floors quickly, just pull out a t shirt rag, insert it onto the pole thingy and swiffer away! You can use this method for both the wet and dry swiffer. I also made up a cleaning solution so that I don’t have to buy the refill cleaner for the wet jet. When I am done with the rag I place it in an empty yogurt container with the lid snapped on until laundry day. I hope this works for you! Happy Cleaning! 
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September 27, 2008 at 6:34 (Frugal Frenzy, Simple Living)
I have been trying very hard to reduce our grocery bill over the past few weeks. I have done a great job so far. Planning our meals and using what we have on hand I have saved an average of $15.00 a week on food!
Every year come Chirstmas time, we are panicing over money and how we will afford to buy presents for everyone, buying food for dinners, baking cookies because I want to , and getting some new ornaments to decorate our tree. Now some people will think they have a great solution to this problem, which would be to buy gifts earlier and not all at one time. That is a great idea and one that we love, however we don’t ever have the extra money to do that. This year we decided that we would really make an effort to spread out our gift purchases over 3 months as opposed to the 3 weeks before Chirstmas.
I looked at my calender and counted the weeks till Chirstmas. We have about 13 weeks until the big day, which is going to come up quicker than I think. I want Chirstmas to be a time of celebration, joy, and happiness, not a time of stressing over money! I think people get so caught up in how much money they have to spend at Chirstmas. I feel alot of times people don’t give gifts anymore out of love, but out of obligation. I don’t want to feel that way this year. Every gift that we purchase this year, I want to be out of love. I don’t want us to be stressing over money, but buying each gift with a joyful and happy heart. I am not saying we don’t have to budget out money and be careful about how much money we spend, but I do want us to enjoy every penny we spend.
So, how does this tie into me buying groceries and saving money? Well that’s just it, I am saving money in one area of our budget that can be used somewhere else, like Christmas! From now until Chrsitmas, I will go grocery shopping 13 times. That gives me the opportunity to save an average of $15.00 13 times!! Which means I could potentially save $195.00. We can take that money I saved on groceries and put in towards Christmas allowing us to enjoy buying our gifts even more!
We aren’t getting any extra money for Christmas we are just being wise about how we spend the money God has already given us. Take a look at your family’s budget and see where you can save a little here and little there. You never know, you might be able to save $195.00 too! Happy Christmas shopping to you all!
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You got it! A plain white t-shirt. (or any color!) How does it work? Well, it is simple. Just take some old t-shirts and cut them the same size as a swiffer refill cloth. Keep them in a drawer or a container in the laundry room or wherever, and when you need to clean up your floors quickly, just pull out a t shirt rag, insert it onto the pole thingy and swiffer away! You can use this method for both the wet and dry swiffer. I also made up a cleaning solution so that I don’t have to buy the refill cleaner for the wet jet. When I am done with the rag I place it in an empty yogurt container with the lid snapped on until laundry day. I hope this works for you! Happy Cleaning! 