How to Save Money on A General Cleaner

If you clean like I do, you go through tons of cleaner a month! However I stopped buying actual cleaner years ago. Instead I make a solution of Water, Vinegar, and Dish Soap. I use it on everything. Yeah it does make your house a little vinegary but the vinegar is better for you, better if you have children about, and you don't have to worry about fumes. What I do is take an empty bottle, you can buy them for a dollar a piece at most stores. Do two or three squirts of dish soap (I usually use Dawn), a splash or two of vinegar and then fill the rest of the bottle with warm water. This stuff I use to clean counter tops, I use it to mop my floors, use it to clean my showers, and bathrooms. It is cheap, easy to make, and you don't have to have a gazillion cleaners for every little thing!

Price of Vinegar Solution: I paid 2.98 for 2 gallons of vinegar( they last 6 months for me), .99 for a bottle of Dawn, and just a few pennies of water.

Curb Finds!!

Yesterday I was at home just relaxing when I found on the curb near me some awesome finds. Curb finds are where I go and grab some stuff that people were leaving out just to get rid of, they know that people in our neighborhoods will come and get it before trash day and they want to make sure that it doesn't go to the dump and goes to someone who needs it. We even have a facebook page for our neighborhood as to where and what is out on the curb. It has been everything for toys, clothes, fire pits, all the way up to furniture. Just this weekend there was an entertainment center out on the curb.

However my curb finds were related to baby stuff that I had not yet knocked off my list yet for my little fellow. I found:

1. Babies R Us Walker Retail Value : $39.99

2. V-tech Bouncing Colors Turtle Valued at : $39.99

3. Fisher Price Activity Walker Valued at : $27 dollars, possibly more

4.  V-Tech Learn and Discover Driving Toy Valued at : $ 17

All these items needed were a little cleaning and new batteries and they worked as good as new and I have new to me items for my little guy after he gets here. I highly support curb finds and re-purposing things people no longer want. 

Wishing all is well with my readers! Also feel free to post any curb findings you may have :)

Getting Back into the Swing of Couponing

So as many of you know, I run this page to help others save money, or help with their budgets and whatnot. However I also am an avid couponer. I have been couponing since I was 16 years old, I grew up in a super poor family and couponing helped stretch our budget. I have since taught various numbers of people including my own family members how to coupon. So here are some tips to get you started.

1. Only buy papers for the people in your household, for example it is me and my husband currently with a little one on the way, so I buy 2 papers a week for coupons. If there are some awesome coupons that week, yeah pick up a few more, however I have learned that there are cycles which sales go through and if you just buy enough to last you six weeks you should see that product on sale again after six weeks so you can stock up on more!

2. Use your own method of couponing, I staple my inserts by each coupon, then cut out. It saves me so much more time than individually cutting out coupons. I also do the binder method, where I place them all baseball card holders and then inside of a school binder. I have them labeled by where I would find them in the store, like canned good, frozen section, meat section, etc.

3. I cannot tell you this enough, you don't need 100 toothpastes haha, just get a few for your family, believe it or not toothpaste expires. Also if you need some to get you started dollar tree sells colgate, crest, and V05 shampoo and conditioner, I think they even sell white rain you can always grab one or two of those low cost items to help start your stockpile, as long as it is a dollar or under I usually grab it :).

4. Don't be greedy! I never never clear a shelf, I refuse to. Even if I desperately needed something that week I only grabbed one or two. Leave some for a fellow couponer! They might just be starting out and needing that awesome deal!

5. You can write companies for coupons! If you really like a product or dislike a product, contact them on their website and let them know, they might just send you coupons for you opinion!

Thats all I have for today! Please feel free to let me know if you need some help starting out!

To Cloth Diaper or Not to Cloth Diaper

I have been back and forth on this debate over and over again. I am not sure if I wanna cloth diaper or not. I have been to classes, read articles, watched youtube videos, and connected with moms from all over to see what their experiences were with cloth diapering. However, I still haven't decided. I thought maybe I could get a few and try them out here and there before investing myself too much into cloth diapering, however I am still not sure about even investing any. I am not sure how I am gonna feel after my little guy is born and how I am even going to manage feeding him, taking care of his diapers, washing them, and all the other facets of being a mother all while keeping my home clean, taking care of my cats etc. The whole idea is a little daunting to say the least, I know I can buy a whole pile of diapers for around 200ish possibly less depending on if I use my free gift cards and whatnot to help out. However I still hesitate, what if I invest too much and don't like cloth diapering... what if my baby doesn't take to it? All these questions go around and around in my head, and my husband doesn't want to cloth diaper. He isn't a fan of it no matter how much it might save us in money and having to run out to get diapers... he doesn't want to do it and my family isn't into cloth diapering as well. I have heard constant comments from my mother and about how I won't like it, and it is too time consuming because she wanted to cloth diaper my siblings and I originally and didn't because of the time it took. Also there is the debate about if they go to daycare about whether or not the daycare would be cloth diaper friendly, the same can be said about a babysitter. So I still debate it out, so readers what did you do with your little ones if you have them or what did your parents do with you? Looking for some insight to help me figure out what I am going to do!

Thanks for reading, 

Snowangel :)

Picture, just cause :)

Seventh Generation Laundry Detergent Review

So I tried out a new detergent, this detergent is called Seventh Generation. I actually really liked it. I have been struggling to find a detergent that doesn't have me breaking out in hives again and I know that my little one on the way will probably have the same skin issues I have so I have been on the hunt to find skin sensitive products that we can both use. I think I may have found it, I was trying out some samples they gave me as part of their community project and it works. My skin had no reaction to the detergent and it got my clothes clean :) Which is a bonus to me, because I feel that sometimes you sacrifice some of the clean feeling of your clothes with sensitive skin products. 

Here is the website to their community: https://generationgood.socialmedialink.com/

I am not sure if they are taking new members or not, but it worth a shot to look at and see if they are. They have sent me samples of baby wipes and samples of laundry detergent so far!

I received the samples for free in exchange for my honest review :) It is very honest and totally mine 

Five Frugal Things I have Done this Week

So this past week, I decided that I would blog about what I did this week to save money!

1. We took some leftover corn that was starting to go bad and chopped it and placed it in the freezer to use for soups and chicken dumplings.

2. We made homemade homemade bread - 2 loaves with all things we had in the pantry.

3. I used my homemade cleaners this morning. I have a homemade vinegar cleaner that cleans basically anything.

4. We dried our clothes on the drying rack to save money.

5. I cut my husbands hair to save money using clippers we had at home.

Plus we bought a chest freezer on sale for 169 something at walmart so we could stockpile more foods in the freezer.

That is my list for today of what I have done!

I hope you met your five for the week!

Frugal Happenings

Hello All!

I hope everyone is alright, so I wanted to update about Frugal Happenings in my home

1. Started growing herbs in the house, yep herbs. I thought it was a good place to start since I am unsure how plants grow down here. We are growing cilantro and basil currently.

2. Ate most of our meals at home, only one meal this week was eaten outside the home. We ate leftovers, and I cooked. I also made homemade marinara and butter garlic sauce all from items in my home, so pizza night seemed a bit fancier

3. Used up fruits in the fridge that were going bad, I had bought some jello peppermint no bake around Christmas and placed strawberries in the batter. My significant other totally thought it tasted like a strawberry york patty.

4. Found some new shoes for my significant other and I, we paid less than 15.00 for both pairs on clearance. I am actually wearing mine currently, they fit well and match almost anything. Also my SO needed a new pair for his workouts.

5. Used Swagbucks, and bing search to earn extra money.

6. Used my homemade cleaners to save money

7. Have been eating meat out of the freezer to save on food budget

8.  Have cut down on my running around and errands to save money

I think that is it for the day! I hope you are all working to frugalize your life too!