Articles Comments

Instead of the Dishes » Entries tagged with "Homemaking"

Spring Cleaning and Organizing Help from ListPlanIt

Spring Cleaning and Organizing Help from ListPlanIt

It’s April, ya’ll!  Have you been bitten by the nesting bug? Does all this spring freshness make you want to de-clutter and get organized?  Between getting ready for last month’s Duck Duck Goose consignment sale, and our pending move, I’ve been more motivated than usual to purge the things we don’t use and get our household organized so we can take care of the things that really matter. I’m excited to see that ListPlanIt has released … Read entire article »

Filed under: Homemaking, Mommyhood

Make a List, Check it Twice, Save $5

Make a List, Check it Twice, Save $5

If you missed it when I wrote about it at the beginning of the year, your chance to save $5 on a ListPlanIt membership is back!    Membership includes access to over 700 lists in categories for home, school, business, and extracurricular planning. ListPlanIt has three different types of memberships to pick from – print, download, or professional. The print membership (normally $20) allows you to print the lists as much as you want and write on … Read entire article »

Filed under: Frugal Fawn, Homemaking, Mommyhood, Spending Less

Frozen Assets: A cookbook for the rest of us

Frozen Assets: A cookbook for the rest of us

I have a really bad habit of checking books out from the library and then keeping them forever, avoiding late fees by renewing them online over and over and over.  Today I got one of those “Your library books will be overdue in three days” emails, and when I went online to renew, the system told me that I had renewed too many times.  Drat it all.  I suppose 5 months is a long time … Read entire article »

Filed under: Frugal Fawn, Grocery Shopping, Homemaking, Mommyhood, Product Reviews

Sick of Making Supper? Swap it.

As the world’s leading expert in being NOT domestic, I struggle almost daily with making dinner.  While I consider myself an organized planner with a type A personality, I just cannot master dinner. I get stuck on what to make, usually trying to think of something that is easy to prep because the kids will be harassing me while I make it.  I also need something that is easily reheatable or will stay warm for a long time, since we never really know what time Daddy will make it home on week nights.  My pantry is well stocked with ingredients, but I rarely remember to unthaw meat or get a marinade set up early in the day.  I feel guilty feeding my family “boxed” dinners with their copious amounts … Read entire article »

Filed under: Homemaking, Mommyhood