Programmable thermostat

-Install a programmable thermostat and save on utilities. Adjust the temperature while you and your family are not home.

Preheat

-Don't waste energy preheating the oven like recipes call for unless you are baking. Casseroles can go straight in the oven just fine.

Paint smocks for kids

-Take an old pilowcase and cut out 2 holes for arms and one for head.
-Buy a package of Hanes t shirts and use those.

Post cards

Kids can start their own scrapbook of places they have been to with these. It can even curb the "I have to have that souvineer" syndrome.

My kids have a little $1 album with the 4x6 slots in it and all of their postcards in it from all of the places we have visited. They love to show it to their friends.

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A Family of 5's quest to forget the Joneses.

Pen pals

-Frugal way to get to know someone in another state or country.