Happy Monday! I hope you’ve all had a good weekend. I just used Random.org to pick a winner for the Tightwad Gazette give-away, and Lara is the lucky one (comment number 6). Congratulations Lara! I’ve emailed you to get your address, and I’ll get your book in the mail to you right away. I wanted… Continue Reading
Shoes My Way, Plus A Giveaway!
When it comes to secondhand shopping, patience is key. I’ve found over the years that I can get just about anything secondhand, if I’m not in a hurry. So I try to make sure that no shopping trip is ever an emergency. For the most part, this is pretty easy to do with a combination… Continue Reading
Thrifted LEGO Storage And An Update On Our Cell Phone Plan
When we moved our boys’ toys downstairs to our new playroom, we tried to make sure that everything was organized, easy to find, and easy to put away. Our older son loves LEGO, and can spend hours building all sort of stuff with it. His collection is a combination of gifts from Grandma and stuff… Continue Reading
Cull Lumber Transformed Into Shelves
Our basement is thiiiiiis close to being finished. Just a few more nooks and crannies to touch up with paint. But for all practical purposes, it’s done and we’ve moved in down there. We’re loving having a gym and a playroom, and we had our first overnight guests in the downstairs guest room last week,… Continue Reading
Recycled Toy Storage
Our older son has several games and toy sets that contain lots of tiny little pieces. Most of them came from Goodwill and their original boxes were long gone. Or the original boxes were cardboard and not very sturdy. I wanted a way to keep everything organized and also be able to see what was… Continue Reading
A Kid-Size Coat Rack
Last summer I turned an empty wall in the hall between our kitchen and our garage into saucepan storage, and I still love that system. It’s easy to find exactly what we need, and the cupboard that we used to use for all of our pots and pans now only has my two big soup… Continue Reading
Frugal Fun With Kids And Felt
I came across this winter felt board idea a couple days ago, and this afternoon I spent a few minutes cutting out felt for our son. I have a bag full of felt scraps left over from my felt food project (I used some of it for the ornaments I made last month, but I… Continue Reading
Our Repurposed Secondhand Toy Fridge
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you probably remember last year’s felt food project. A year later, our son still loves the play kitchen and felt food (and has become an excellent helper in the real kitchen too), and his little brother is starting to really enjoy it as well. That food… Continue Reading
The Joy Of Fixing Things
Our boys love their wooden train set. We bought a train table and some trains from someone on Craigslist two years ago, and they’ve been a hit around here ever since. We’ve added various secondhand trains and track along the way, although we ended up giving the train table to a friend, since our son… Continue Reading
Magnetic Faces Board – A Homemade Toy
It’s craft time! The last time my MIL came to visit us, I asked her to bring some old magazines that we could cut up. We also needed some advertising magnets, and my parents were able to provide a few. The only other supplies we used for this were stiff cardboard and a few laminating… Continue Reading