One Hundred Dollars a Month - Page 832 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.

Penny Pinching Tip – Save Your Bacon Grease

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By Mavis Butterfield on May 26, 2015 · 46 Comments

If you make bacon on any kind of regular basis, make sure to save the grease to use for things like hashbrowns, fried eggs, sauteed onions, roasted veggies, etc.. It makes your food taste amazing, and saves money you would have otherwise used on another store-bought oil or butter.

To save the grease, let it cool slightly after you cook the bacon. Then, place a strainer or cheese cloth over a glass container and pour the grease into the container. The strainer/cheesecloth will filter out most of the debris, and you will be left with pure, usable bacon fat. Throw the container in the fridge and use it as needed.

It won’t completely replace the need to buy other oils {unless you are consuming bacon at a pretty considerable rate}, but it is way better than throwing usable consumable money in the garbage.

Do any of you already to this? Are any of you disgusted by the thought of adding bacon fat to your food?

~Mavis

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Just the Facts Ma’am…

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By Mavis Butterfield on May 26, 2015 · 8 Comments

Fact: Teenagers will always need money.

Fact: People are less likely to chat it up with a teenager staining an exterior fence with headphones on than a housewife with earbuds in. {Odd, but true.}

Fact: You fill find lot’s and lot’s of rocks when you create a new garden bed.

Fact: I’ll never get tired of sorting seeds. Ever.

Fact: Lucy takes her job as supervisor very seriously.

Fact: Playing in the dirt is cool.

Fact: Companion planting is the bomb diggety! In this 5×10 garden bed I planted 6 tomato plants, 10 cauliflower plants, 12 romaine lettuce starts, 10 cucumber plants, 6 patty pan squash, and a couple of rows each of carrots, parsnips, and radish. I know what you’re thinking…. Amazeballs. Right?

Fact: Even the most mundane garden chores like digging up grass to create a new garden bed, is FREAKING EXCITING when you’ve been cooped up indoors and afraid to go outside for 8 months.

🙂 🙂 🙂 Freakin’ exciting!!

Keep Calm and Garden On my friends… It’s time to dig!

~Mavis

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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum- Staunton, Virginia

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By Mavis Butterfield on May 26, 2015 · 11 Comments

During one of my recent trips back east, I decided to check out the Woodrow Wilson Museum. Ever since our family tour of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum a few years back, I’ve kind of made it an unofficial goal of mine to tour as many as I can.

It is fascinating to me to learn about our Presidents’ childhoods and private lives–it makes them seem like regular people.

I honestly didn’t know all that much about Woodrow Wilson when I went, so it was kind of cool to tour the grounds. In case you are in the same boat that I was, here’s the low down: Wilson was our 28th President. He was in office when the 19th amendment was passed {which gave women the right to vote} and also led us through most of WWI.

His picture is on the $100,000 bill–which for some reason I found to be the most interesting fact I learned. The bill is no longer in circulation, but can you imagine pulling a crisp $100,000 bill out of your purse? I guess that must be how the other half live, because I can’t even imagine it.

The admission ticket was a replica of the 1912 Democratic national convention. Pretty cool if you ask me.

The whole place is made up of a museum, a house {where Woodrow Wilson was born}, and library that basically houses information on anything you might want to know about Wilson.

They don’t let you take pictures in the house, but they did let me snap a few of the grounds and museum.

I don’t care how nerdy this makes me seem, museums are cool.

~Mavis

Have you been to any presidential libraries? Do you have a favorite?

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Free Kindle Books, Soaker Hoses, 53% Off Philips Norelco Shavers, Hostess Gifts, Mrs. Meyers and More

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By Mavis Butterfield on May 26, 2015 · 4 Comments

Word of the Day: Piqued Definition: Aroused, brought to sharp point, challenged Used in a sentence: His curiosity was piqued when he saw his friends whispering to each each other.

Well hello there. Did you have a nice weekend? The puggle princess and I had a great time putting together our second garden bed yesterday and playing fetch in the back yard. Lucy still hasn’t grasped the idea of how fetch is played {she wants to keep the ball} but we are working on it. Any suggestions? 😉

Have a great day everyone, and don’t forget to get outside and PLANT something today.

♥ Mavis

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Any day now and we’ll be overrun by tomatoes. If you’re using yours up in sauces or thinking of canning them, check out this tip on How to Peel Tomatoes. Find more cool tips on my Easy Kitchen Tips Pinterest Board.

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