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Making Homemade Vintage Valentines

Giving valentines has become a February tradition for school children. What started as romantic letters between couples has become a trip to the store to pick out printed cards with cartoon character themes. Signing and addressing pre-made valentines for fellow students has less significance than the heart-shaped cookies at the class valentine party.

 

 

Scaling Back: Your Decision to Become a Stay-at-Home Mom

You’d like to be a stay-at-home mom, quit your job, and spend more time with the kids. But perhaps you’ve become dependent on your income and the entire family enjoys some of the perks that go along with it. Can you scale back on spending enough to afford to be a stay-at-home mom?


How to DeClutter Storage

I’ve often admired people who can be perfectly happy with no basement, no attic, and a few neat closets. Everything they use is where they can find it, and they have no need for boxes of junk.


Natural Cleaning Solutions for the Laundry

When I was growing up, my mother could get out any stain. She often reached into the food cupboard or bathroom cabinet to solve a laundry problem, since natural cleaning solutions were all she had.


Bring Back Homemade Bread

Homemade bread is wonderful on so many fronts. It’s an inexpensive way to eat healthier and a perfect way to start a journey of back-to-basic living.


Get Back to Nature With a 'Green Hour'

It’s time to kick your kids out of the house. Just for an hour or so a day, take the whole family outside and get back to nature, explore your back yard and beyond, and just have fun rediscovering the great outdoors.


Double Dinners: How to Get Two Easy Meals Out of One Cooking Session

What to make for dinner? Faced with pots and pans, raw ingredients, and a stack of recipe books, we confront that question every day. The search for an easy meal is like the Holy Grail of modern life.


New Year’s Resolutions for a Simpler Life

A new year, new goals, a new start. What better time to make some New Year’s resolutions for a simpler life for you and your family?


The Multitalented Lemon: 6 Reasons to be Glad You Have Lemons in the House

The lovely lemon – nature’s all-in-one cure for what ails you.

Lemons add a zing to every meal, a sparkle to every beverage, and they’ll freshen everything from your head to your toes – and even the kitchen sink.

 

 


 

 

 

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