Archive for entertainment
Themed Holiday Gift Baskets
Today on my weekly news segment, I shared some inexpensive ways to make holiday gift baskets. Making gift baskets is one of my favorite things to do, not only around the holidays, but during the entire year. Making holiday gift baskets can be great fun and are a lot of fun for the recipient too! [...]
Don’t Miss Those Christmas Specials
I love to watch all of those wonderful Christmas shows on television. The season wouldn’t be complete without the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, & Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. We have a DVR now so I am able to record the specials on television so the children can watch them [...]
Handmade Ornaments With Flair
Well, I hope everyone survived Black Friday this season? I was thinking of each of you as we watched our holiday movies and lounged around the house having our day-after-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner. I hope everyone got great deals and enjoyed some special time with loved ones over the holiday. It was so great to hear [...]
What Will You Be Doing On Black Friday?
It is one of the biggest times for the retailers and the stores have been frantically putting together door-busting deals that will get people in their stores. Don’t worry if there are only ten items available and you were the eleventh customer! You might as well make the most of it and get a few [...]
Getting Ready For the Holidays
I loved Meredith’s post yesterday about cheerful frugality and giving gifts that people really care about so that your money does not go to waste. I may sound like a little old lady, but I really am amazed at how much people buy for themselves. It becomes increasingly more difficult to buy for people, including [...]
Practicing Thankfulness
The store departments would lead me to believe that we were going right from Halloween directly into Christmas. Somehow the Thanksgiving feast seems to get overlooked in the mass consumerism of the Christmas shopping. As a frugal girl, Thanksgiving happens to be my favorite holiday. What other holiday does not require me to buy a [...]
Movies on a Budget
We love to watch movies as a family, particularly on our fun family nights each Friday. Since we don’t own a movie collection, I wanted to share some fun and cheap ways to watch movies without paying a lot for them. – Always check your local library to see if they offer movies. Most libraries [...]
Soup Suppers
I don’t know anything better than a big a bowl of soup on a cold night and the soup season is finally here…at least in the Midwest! While soup can be enjoyed all year, there is nothing that warms the belly more than a steaming bowl of soup and it is time to get on [...]
The Great Pumpkin
Today I am going to the pumpkin patch with my son and his class. Unfortunately, the weather predictions have been calling for cold and rain so it is certainly not the ideal weather I had hoped for. He is so excited though and has been looking forward to this for months now. I still feel [...]
More on Hosting the Unexpected Guest
I was so happy to see that there were so many great comments on getting your home ready for an unexpected guest. It seemed like people enjoyed the cleaning tips and techniques, but the question about feeding the unexpected guests also came up. I thought it was an excellent question and I have been thinking [...]
Getting Ready for the Unexpected Guest
If only entertaining was easier! I certainly love having everyone to our home and I enjoy the time that I am with them, but preparing for company can be quite time-consuming. There is all the cleaning and organizing and cooking. Usually, by the time my guest have arrived, I am running on auto pilot because [...]
Why Brunch Can Be the Best?
“‘When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,’ said Piglet at last, ‘what’s the first thing you say to yourself?’ ‘What’s for breakfast?’ said Pooh. ‘What do you say, Piglet?’ ‘I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?’ said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. ‘It’s the same thing,’ he said.” A. A. Milne, ‘The [...]
Hosting a Game Day Party
One of my favorite things about the fall season is football. It is not so much that I love the sport all that much, in fact, I often have no idea what is going on. No, I just really love to throw game day parties that people will remember and enjoy!Throwing a game day party [...]
What’s In My Hand Can be Child’s Play
Before I get to the kernel of this week’s post, let me say thank-you to those of you who left encouraging comments on last week’s post. They mean a lot to me. One reader thanked me for the little pep talk, and I want you to know that these sorts of posts are reminders and [...]
Introduction to Entertainment on a Budget
Well, I must admit that I am feeling a bit out of my league to be asked on as a guest author. The ladies that have been included on this are considered to be some of my personal frugal heroes so I am excited to be chosen to help cover topics on here. Let me [...]
