Timesaving Tuesday #3: Spinning Shoe Rack

Spinning Shoe Rack

How many of you struggle with bending over to pick up your shoes?  Or even finding their mates?  This spinning shoe rack is not only pretty but super practical for reducing the pain and stress caused by storing them on the floor or in a box.

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Make Your Money Stretch with Ibotta

Make Your Money Stretch

with Ibotta

Welcome to “Making Your $ Stretch” Week 2.  Today we want to share a fun, simple app with you.  It’s easy to use, stacks with store deals, paper coupons, Savings Star, Receipt Hog, Walmart Savings Catcher, and even Checkout 51.  It’s called Ibotta.

Our family loves Ibotta.

We treat the money we earn from Ibotta as bonus money that we use towards special groceries, house decor, family entertainment and other non-essentials. Read more »

We’re Back and Better Than Ever!

Hi!  It’s June 1st and we are back and better than EVER!

New, improved and ready to inspire you to make the most of your time, your finances and your family.  We want to provide inspiration for  you regardless of your financial or physical status.

How  do we plan to accomplish that?  By constantly sharing simple products, programs, websites, apps, and tips that we love and use everyday plus fun decor and ideas you can complete on a  budget and with physical limitations. Read more »

Controlling the Chaos Days 240-269

Now is your chance to purge all those items you skimmed over or haven’t gotten to yet.

Please keep in mind this list was created with our home in mind.  Yours may vary slightly, or you may still be working on items from the previous checklist.

This month is all about purging, not organizing, not cleaning, just purging our home of everything we can put into the garage sale before winter.  Originally we planned our garage sale just to clear our home of clutter, but with the huge amount of medical bills we now have I am hoping to use my part of the proceeds to rebuild our emergency fund.  AND I have promised myself that nothing left from the sale will still be here after 7 days.  Seven days gives me enough time to drop it off to the various resale, consignment and donation shops we frequent. 

What are you going to do with your items?  Decide NOW before you just create “another” pile.

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Controlling the Chaos Days 209-239 Preparing For an Amazing School Year

Welcome back to Controlling the Chaos!  It is a new month and a fresh start.  This month we are going to catch our breaths, recover from cleaning the kids rooms and supplies and prepare for an amazing school year.

If you are just joining us you are welcome to start at Day 1 OR you can join us right where we are today.

Whatever your choice, it is time to take action and CONTROL YOUR CHAOS!

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