by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 31, 2023 | Gardening
These cheap garden ideas will help your vegetable garden be the money saver it was meant to be in the first place.
You start out to create a little veggie garden just to save yourself some money on groceries.
But it doesn’t take long to discover that gardening can cost you a lot more money than just buying the dang vegetables at the store in the first place!
So when you’re just starting out, it’s super important to use cheap garden ideas as much as possible to keep your costs down.
Well, these ideas are easy, cheap, and totally do-able, even for the beginning gardener. So give them a try!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 19, 2023 | Saving Money
These cheap ways to update your home are easy, so start your dream home file now.
Remember the day you bought your home?
All the excitement of starting somewhere fresh and new made it seem like…well maybe not the perfect home, but close!
Over the years, though, that home started to feel boring.
It’s getting to the point that you just don’t want to be there anymore.
But with the cost of housing (not to mention the work and effort of moving), swapping house is just out of the question.
Well, that’s ok. Because once you put these cheap ideas in place, your home will feel new all over again.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 6, 2023 | Recipe
This tried and true list of budget meals for large families is a winner! Cheap, easy dinner recipes for your next family dinner.
The cost of groceries is insane right now, especially when you’re feeding a family of eight. That makes having a good list of budget meals for large families on a shoestring grocery budget.
Not only are these meals filled with simple, affordable ingredients, but they are also easy to double, triple, or whatever -le your family needs!
For a year, I had my family try out new recipes.
These are only the winners. The recipes they loved and asked to have again.
So save these recipes to use in your Large Family Home over and over.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Feb 26, 2023 | Recipe
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This simple granola recipe with honey will make your mouth water and keep you full for hours. It’s the perfect homemade breakfast granola recipe!
My Mom always said the closer to rocks and sticks her breakfast looked, the better.
And I agree.
You won’t believe how effortless this simple granola recipe is, and with a touch of honey, it is the perfect breakfast food.
Not only that, but it will keep you feeling full far longer than any box you get from the store.
(I don’t know about you, but I hate it when I eat a bowl of cereal only to be starving again a half hour later.)
The easy granola recipe is all yours.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Feb 18, 2023 | Saving Money
Wellll, it was time to call the propane man to come fill up our tank.
When you heat with propane, you can’t really put off a refill. No one wants an exploding tank in their backyard.
But I hated to call them, because this was the first year my propane company ever refused to lock me in on a price.
And I could only imagine how much this was gonna cost.
Sure enough, the price was over $4 per gallon. But I told them to fill it up. Because who knows how much higher it will be the next time I call them?
Finally the bill was totaled. And even though I knew it would be high, it was even worse than I expected. I’d never seen a four figure bill for propane before.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Feb 13, 2023 | Recipe
What if I told you that I have a pizza dough recipe that takes less time than ordering a pizza and waiting for delivery?
Oh, and it takes like 5 minutes of effort, too.
Sound too good to be true?
Well I’m here to tell you that I’ve been making this recipe for 15 years, and it is one of the few things in life that sounds good and actually IS true.
That’s right.
Oh, and it has no weird ingredients. Even in this economy, it’s a great frugal choice.
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I'm Jamie, and I want to help you afford a beautiful life with your family. 
