Archive | January, 2010

A Case of Extreme Frugality

Wow. Sometimes people seriously go to extremes to be frugal. And honestly, the woman I am about to tell you about, did it more for the principal of it being her money, but she fought for over 10 years about 14 cents. Is that not the craziest thing ever? It all started over a cheap [...]

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10 Tips for Picky Eaters

10 Tips for Picky Eaters

Anyone who has followed me on my blog for any length of time, knows I have a few picky kids, and I also happen to have the pickiest kid I’ve ever met in my life. So do you have a picky eater in your family? If you do, there are a few tips that can [...]

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A Happy Ending

I figured with Adgitize I finally found the silver lining. If you read the previous post, about how I won the grand prize for this blog back in September ’09 and I just discovered it yesterday, then you realized I didn’t have high hopes for Adgitize to still award me the prize money. Honestly, it [...]

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Story of My Life…

After being completely aggravated by my hosting company and the merging of the hosting accounts (which didn’t quite work the way it was supposed to), I had to restore everything on my blog. While I was restoring everything … suddenly my “links” updated and I could see who was saying what about my posts. So [...]

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Slight Issues

Unfortunately, in a hosting combination process, I wound up losing everything from two of my four blogs. I am working to get everything restored, so please be patient. Leave me a comment to say hello too – I lost my comments also `

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Black and Decker CM5050 12 cup coffee maker

Product Review: Black & Decker Home – 12 Cup Programmable Coffeemaker – Model CM5050

After a most disturbing experience with my ridiculous Keurig KCup coffemaker that I purchased not even a month and a half ago, I had to do something to rectify my lack of coffee situation. Face it, I’m an addict. Must have coffee. Cannot survive without coffee. I acted as quickly as I could, and I [...]

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Examiner.com – St. Louis Frugal Family Examiner

Very excited!! I applied to be the examiner.com St. Louis Frugal Family Examiner after noticing that the previous writer had not published anything since April of last year. I waited for awhile before applying to see if she would post again, but she never did. I took the chance about two weeks ago and went [...]

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Keurig Elite Brewing System Review

Keurig Elite Brewing System Review

If you have been following me for any length of time, one of the first things you learn, is how much I absolutely adore my coffee. I mean, LIVE for my coffee. Like, so much when the kids play Whoonu with me, they all pray they get the ‘coffee‘ card for me. Well, with that [...]

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The Ad Master – Article Ideas

Every once in awhile, I do sit down and find myself completely at a block as to what to write. It isn’t that I don’t have great every day fodder to include on my blogs, but most of the time it probably isn’t funny to anyone but our family. So I’m always on the look [...]

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Moist Sweet Cornbread Recipe

Moist Sweet Cornbread Recipe

For some reason, I have never really cared for corn bread, until my ex-husband, who is from the South, introduced me to his grandmother’s sweet cornbread recipe. Now I love it, but only if its made this way. This is a moist, cake like recipe that is perfect with soups, stews and chili’s. Our family [...]

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