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Effective, Free, Safe, Natural, Simple Headache Remedy

Yes, you’ve read it correctly!  There is such a miraculous remedy.  I’ve been using it for many, many years and it rarely fails. In fact I don’t have many headaches anymore since I now also use the remedy as prevention.    What is this magic elixir?  Water, simply water.  The cure for most of my […]

Review: Molly Saves in the Garage and Shed

Recipes.  Helpful links. Colorful pictures.  Frugal solutions.  A positive attitude.  This month’s Money-Saving Digest has them all.    In “Begin with the Basics” Molly teaches us to make lemonade using real lemons and sugar syrup, passing on two helpful tips for juicing lemons.  She also shares a trick to avoid gritty un-dissolved sugar in the […]

Free Park Pass for 8th Grade Canadians

If you are a Canadian and have a child in grade 8 you can get him or her a free park pass that will gain admittance into 42 national parks, 167 national historic sites and 4 national marine conservation areas across Canada. The pass is for a full year, until April 2012. This offer expires April […]

Top Cleaning Tip: A Free Green Timesaver

My children have spent many hours chuckling over the zany humor in Don Aslett’s books.  Although the sound of a child chortling over a book is like late afternoon sunshine, bringing a glow to my whole life, that’s not why I love Don Aslett.   You see, this man writes cleaning books.  Funny, helpful cleaning […]

Frugal Seed Starting, Homeschool Style

Each year we plant a huge (think several thousand square feet) garden.  Of course we need seedlings, so we start them ourselves.  It’s a great learning experience and, when the seeds come up, it can be so exciting. Over the years we’ve learned to do this more and more efficiently and frugally.  The children have […]