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Budget Savers

Budget Savers, Recipes

Homemade Taco Seasoning – Cheap and Easy to Make

Rather than buy those expensive pouches of taco seasoning, why not make it yourself! It’s fast and easy using spices you may already have in your cupboard. I buy my spices from the bulk food store which makes this recipe even less expensive. Buying in bulk also allows you to purchase just enough of a particular spice so you don’t…

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Budget Savers, Recipes

Leftover Baked Potato & Bacon Casserole

When a huge snow storm moves through bringing with it much colder temperatures and several inches of snow, it calls for good old-fashioned comfort food. A rummage through the fridge yielded several leftover baked potatoes. I will often bake extra potatoes with the idea of having some leftover to use later in the week and just as often, in order…

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Budget Savers, Quilting, Sewing

How to Join Leftover Strips of Quilt Batting

Do you have a tub full of quilt batting scraps waiting for you to find a use for them? Every quilter I know has a container full of batting strips from when they square up their quilts after quilting before attaching the binding. I’m no exception! We all just hate to throw out that much batting, don’t we? After all……

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Budget Savers, Christmas on a Budget

Turn Halloween Treats into Christmas Party Favors

Do you have candy leftover from Halloween? Or perhaps your kids collected more candy than they could possibly consume before Easter! Turn Halloween treats into Christmas party favors with craft supplies you probably already have on hand. This year we had way more candy than trick or treaters. Having it sitting around the house could seriously sabotage the progress I’ve…

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Budget Savers, Thrifting

How to Set Up a Kitchen on the Cheap Without It Looking Cheap

After living and working in Shanghai for 6 years, our oldest daughter and her partner decided it was time to return to Canada to pursue new careers and educational opportunities. They each had only a few boxes of personal items that had been stored at our place and his parent’s place. Setting up their apartment kitchen could have been prohibitively…

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