While we can’t eliminate laundry from your list of necessary housework items, we can help you save money on laundry with these frugal laundry tips.

Everyone wants to know extra ways to save money, frugal tips for stretching your dollars, and helpful hints for getting by in tough times.  There are so many money saving strategies available, and some of them are overlooked as “too small to make a difference”.  Well my friends, the small things add up to [...]

As frugal parents, we all want to get great kids’ clothes while spending less money. This store sales and clearance schedule below lists the best times and places to buy kids’ clothes for the best price. Planning ahead and buying kids’ clothes in advance is a thrifty way to get more for your money.

How to Save 90% on Kids Clothes
We’ve got a frugal tip today that will cut your budget for kids clothes by 90%.  Holy thrifty savings, batman!  We take thrift store shopping a step further and show frugal moms how to get the deep discounts that not many other people are finding. 
That’s right, if you normally [...]

Fight Energy Vampires and Lower Your Electric Bill
Vampire taps might be sucking the energy out of your home right now!  Chances are, they’re inflating your energy use and raising your electric bill, silently draining the money out of your household budget.  We’ve talked before about vampire energy taps in these articles:
Top Energy Wasters in Your [...]

Save Money on Heating Fuel Overnight
While brainstorming ways to cut down on our heating fuel costs this winter, one of the ideas that my husband and I came up with was to lower our thermostat at night while the family is sleeping.  We’d have to make an initial investment by purchasing new bedding and warm [...]

A question on every homemaker’s mind at one time or another is, "How can I save money on groceries? I want to spend less on my food budget- how do I get started?" 

We have a lot of control over our budgets when it comes to grocery spending, even though it might not seem obvious at [...]

Slashing unnecessary expenses on necessary items like utilities is on on everyone’s mind.   Saving money may seem difficult when summer temperatures swell or winter chills have you cranking up the thermostat.   While we can’t eliminate our water bills or electric bills, there are lots of tips and tricks to keep the costs down.
13 Ways to [...]

Are Energy Vampire Taps Costing You Money?
Vampire taps are in all of our houses right now and chances are, they’re costing you  money.  Many electrical devices use energy in “standby mode” 24 hours a day, even when they’re not in use.  A little extra energy may not seem like a big deal at first thought.  [...]

Why pay for things you can get for free? Using Homemaker Barbi’s tips, you may never have to purchase these things again! At the core of frugal living is learning to use our available resources wisely. We all know a smaller shopping list means smaller grocery and household expense bills. Many of the tips [...]