Money Saving Advice

If you’re look for great *free* ideas to have fun with children visit www.familyfun.com This is a fantastic website full of ideas that will keep kids entertained with crafts, cooking, and more. There are loads of crafts with downloadable instructions as well as instructional videos. Crafts cover just about every imaginable holiday (i.e. Christmas, Easter, [...]

Hubby and I are both diabetics, and the one thing we both miss are desserts. This recipe is quick and easy, and if you’re diabetic like hubby and I, it won’t send your sugar levels over the top! This is one of our favourite desserts, and we have it at least one night each week. [...]

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Image by mharvey.nyc via Flickr Children are the future. You want the best for them. Family meals are instrumental in spending quality time with your children and helping them avoid some of the dangers that come with growing up. Parents and kids have created shortcuts that pass for quality time. Most of us don’t even [...]

Remember the Life cereal commercials where Mikey ate everything? Some parents should be so lucky with their kids. If you have a picky eater on your hands, here are five strategies to deal with them. Kids have their own rhyme and reason to eating. While some will eat everything you put in front of them [...]

Are you looking for a way to save money and get the family to eat at home? There is always time for a meal at home when you use menu planning. Image by Getty Images via @daylife The one thing we never seem to have enough of is time. When time gets short, the first [...]

The most obvious way to save money on your clothes dryer (and therefore your electricity bill) is to hang your washing on the line. But what if you can’t do that? It could be due to bad weather, or simply because you don’t have a clothes line because of lack of space in your yard. [...]

Image via Wikipedia As a kid, grocery shopping looked like fun. As a parent, it’s a chore that most of us could do without. Below are a handful of tips to save both time and money on your next trip to the grocery store. You might just change your mind about the experience after trying [...]

Image by Jackal of all trades via Flickr Just because you spend time together as a family, doesn’t mean it has to cost a fortune. There are loads of ways to spend time together without spending money. Here are just a few: *Go for a walk together. If you plan to spend a lot of [...]

Are you sick and tired of chasing around for coupons? It can be such a drag. Instead of going from place to place, site to site, or collecting coupons here, there, and everywhere, I have found a website where you can get loads of coupons – for free! Click on the banner below to check [...]