What’s so Pinteresting? Mommysavers is! The Mommysavers online pinboard is filled with shopping tips, recipes, frugal living advice and organizing shortcuts. Each week we pin the best tips, recipes and frugal advice from our members as well as … [Read more...]
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German Streusel Kuchen Recipe: Frugal Heritage Cooking
Kuchen (the German word for cake) is a treat that I enjoyed as a little girl visiting my paternal grandparents in Iowa. My great aunt Carrie made a wonderful German Streusel Kuchen that I still remember, nearly 30 years after she passed away. I … [Read more...]
Homemade Gift Idea: Easy-Sew Bedside Organizer
Here's an easy-sew homemade gift idea for just about anyone! A homemade bedside organizer makes a good gift for siblings, grandparents, friends, kids, or anyone who likes to read. This frugal homemade gift uses just 1/2 yard of fabric and a few … [Read more...]
Frugal Christmas: 25 Days of Homemade Gift Ideas
Frugal Homemade Gift Ideas This Christmas season, we will be bringing you 25 days of frugal homemade gift ideas to help extend your holiday shopping budget. We'll be posting a new homemade Christmas gift idea each day in December up until that very … [Read more...]
End of Summer Activity: Nature Treasure Box
Have your kids been collecting natural treasures all summer? My kids have collected shells (from two beaches and the playground sand), rocks, seed pods from the park, acorns, nuts and seeds, even foreign currency they found washed up on the shore. … [Read more...]
Reasons for Resourcefulness by Kimberly Danger
Waste Not, Want Not. You may be familiar with this phrase if you had a parent or grandparent who lived through the great depression or experienced war rationing. Prior generations, mainly out of necessity, demonstrated that philosophy numerous ways … [Read more...]