One Hundred Dollars a Month - Page 1455 of 2143 - I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

10 Alternative Uses for Baby Powder

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By Mavis Butterfield on September 23, 2013 · 9 Comments

Baby powder isn’t just for babies anymore {though, to be fair, I never did use it on my babies}. Turns out, there’s actually lots of way to put baby powder to good use. Here’s my top 10 favorite ways to use it:

Throw a bottle in your beach bag because it helps to get the sand off of your body at the end of the day. Sprinkle it on, it will absorb the moisture and the sand should easily brush right off.
Sprinkle a little in your dishwashing/cleaning gloves. It makes it easier to get them on and off.
Sprinkle on the sheets in the summer. It is supposed to give sheets a cool feeling {my guess is that it does more for your sticky summer body than anything else, but it probably still feels soft and luxurious, so I am totally trying it.}
Give your flower bulbs a little baby powder bath before you plant them. The baby powder deters mold in the bulbs and supposedly deters critters from wanting to eat them. Just sprinkle some baby powder in a ziploc bag, add the bulbs and shake.
Get playing cards to stop from sticking. Put the cards and the baby powder in a baggie and shake. Dust the cards off, and they shouldn’t stick anymore.
Give your dog a dry bath. Sprinkle some baby powder on, let it sit a few minutes and then brush your dog. {Hmmm, I know some people I’d like to try this on.}
Use as an aftershave–for men and women. It’s cheaper and leaves skin feeling as soft as, well, a baby’s bottom. Ha.
Untangle knots. Got a necklace that has a knot, or a shoelace that won’t budge. Sprinkle a little baby powder on it, it will help loosen the knot.
Freshen those old books you snagged at a garage sale by sprinkle baby powder in the pages. Let the book sit for a bit, and then shake the baby powder out.
Use to absorb grease stains on clothes. Sprinkle baby powder on the spill and blot the grease out. Repeat until stain is gone, brushing off excess baby powder each time.

How about you, do you have any awesome uses for baby powder?

~Mavis

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Money Saving Tip – Get Cheese Loaves Sliced in the Deli for FREE

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By Mavis Butterfield on September 23, 2013 · 9 Comments

My local grocery store {Albertsons} has 2 pound loaves of Tillamook cheese on sale this week for only $3.99 each. Since this is our favorite cheese, I went ahead and picked up a loaf and brought it directly to the deli counter and had it sliced for sandwiches.

You might think that’s a little weird, but when an 8 ounce package of Tillamook pre-sliced cheese is selling for $2.99 a package, getting the 2 pound loaf of cheese sliced in the deli is a HUGE savings.

What would you rather have?

{4} 8-ounce packages of cheese for $11.96 or

{1} 2 pound loaf sliced in the deli for $3.99?

~Mavis

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Mavis Garden Blog – Trimming Hedges and Garden Clean Up

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By Mavis Butterfield on September 23, 2013 · 7 Comments

Is it just me, or are you feeling a little overwhelmed these days with your garden chores? I really like having a large garden, but when fall rolls around and everything all the sudden is overgrown and dying, the little OCD monster inside of me starts to flip out just a little {okay, maybe a lot}.

In between bouts of rain, yesterday Lucy the Puggle Dog and I worked on trimming the hedges alongside the house.

We also pulled up all the strawberry runners that had spread into the gravel pathway and trimmed the raspberry canes as well.

The strawberry runners were so prolific this year, I gave a few away to my neighbor Hulda, and then just tossed the rest on to the compost heap because nobody else in the neighborhood wanted any.

I would have re-planted them, but I still have four gutters full of strawberry plants in the greenhouse yet to transplant and I have no idea where I’m going to put those. Yikes!

Here’s what the side yard looked like after we trimmed everything back.

I still need to trim the giant wisteria monster and go through the raspberry patch and clean it up a bit, but for now, I’m just happy I can walk down the garden patch and not feel like it’s one giant mess.

Is it just me, or is your garden chore list seem to be growing each day too?

~Mavis

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Mondays with Mavis – How to Feed Your Family for $100 a Month

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By Mavis Butterfield on September 23, 2013 · 8 Comments

Fred Meyer $3.00

Do you ever feel like your the most boring shopper ever? Well that’s how I feel about my grocery store purchases last week. The HH had been out of town on a business trip, and with school and fall sports in full swing, I barely had to buy anything.

Albertsons $5.49

Cream cheese, cheddar cheese and sour cream. Now that’s exciting isn’t it?

With so much food the freezer and the garden still producing, it’s hard to make time to grocery shopping, whether we need something or not.

But one thing I did make time for, was donating 3 boxes of homegrown potatoes to our local food bank.

So far this year we have harvested over 250 pounds of red, white and blue potatoes. And yes, there are still more to dig up. 😉 Now, as much as we all like potatoes, we grew way more than we could eat and giving them away seemed like the right thing to do.

I also dropped off a couple bags of Swiss chard as well. The lady at the food bank didn’t want to take too much of the leafy greens in case people didn’t take it. And I don’t blame her. I think I’ll give her a jingle today and see she had any takers, and if so, I’ll drop off a few more bags while I’m out running errands this week.

And last but not least…

Mr. Produce Guy – FREE

Free watermelon, apples, kiwis and grapes for lunch snacks and a boatload of lettuce for taco night and dinner salads. Free food is cool. Whether you are giving it away or receiving it.

How about you?

Did you buy a bunch of groceries last week? Get any awesome deals? Or maybe you donated your extra garden produce to the food bank? Either way, Mavis wants to know. 🙂

Total Spent This Week $8.49
Total Spent This Year $1,631.25 – It’s official, I’m over for the year!

Total Spent This Year on Garden Seeds/Supplies $919.96{I bought a Meyer Lemon Tree, Rhubarb crowns, 6 Fruit Trees , 16 yards of soil}, Walla Walla Onions and 90 pounds of seed potatoes. Plus, supplies to make my own potting soil. I also picked up a boatload of heirloom tomato plants at the Seattle Tilth sale.

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