This week I’ve been talking about what to do with the items after you have done your Spring cleaning and purged your house of the unneeded items. If you are a book lover, you know how these quickly these can accumulate. The book clutter becomes worse when you have children outgrowing their book collection. [...]

This week I have been writing about what to do with all your “stuff” when you are Spring Cleaning. The refrigerator certainly needs our attention when we are cleaning and I’m guessing a fraction of what is in the fridge needs to head straight to the garbage. If you have any edible leftovers remaining, you [...]

I had to deviate from my “Cleaning Out” posts today to pay homage to a Kentucky favorite. (Check back tomorrow and I’ll continue the “Cleaning Out” series.) As you may know, I am from Kentucky and this week our state is center stage. The Run for the Roses, a.k.a., The Kentucky Derby runs this Saturday. [...]

If you need some organizing solutions while you are Spring Cleaning and purging your house of unneeded items, head over to Organize with Sandy. While you are there, you can read my guest post on how to make a powerful homemade cleaner.

Spring is a great time of year to purge your home of the items that have worn out their welcome. While some people prefer to automatically donate the items, which is wonderful and admirable, today I’m going to list the options for selling your items. Come back later this week for donating ideas.

Yard sales (or [...]

I was featured as New Blog of the Week at Faithful Follower of Christ. She was so sweet to compliment Just Doing My Best in this manner and did a great job reviewing my blog. Check it out and look for her article on how she handled dishonesty when it occurred in her home. She [...]

Each week I have been providing potential ideas for frugal family fun. I’m talking about Spring this week at Just Doing My Best and Spring is the perfect time to introduce the arts to your children for free.
Spring is recital season and larger schools often publish the recital schedule in newspapers and online in hopes [...]

If you are looking for even more money-saving ideas, head on over to my article at Happy to be at Home.
Don’t forget to check back here tomorrow for the latest idea in my Frugal Family Fun series, with a special focus on Spring and the Arts.

Have you found a coupon organization method that you like? I love my coupon binder and I’ve found it to be an easy system to maintain.
I bought some plastic baseball card inserts and use them inside my binder to hold the coupons. I found them at Walmart in the office supply section. I also found, [...]

I tried to find a few higher dollar coupons or interesting offers to share with you. Sometimes, you can get coupons by signing up for a company’s newsletter. If you are apprehensive about cluttering up your inbox, consider creating a “junk” email account with Yahoo, Google, etc., for the purpose of giving out to companies.
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