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Naughty and Nice Snowman Gifts

These cute little gifts are perfect for stocking stuffers or as inexpensive gifts for co-workers, friends, service workers, neighbors and kids. You can choose which you would like to make, depending on whether the person you are giving one to has been naughty or nice. The naughty gifts make great ideas for gag gifts, too. Snowman gifts are really nice (even the naughty ones) because snowmen always have a way of making people smile. Let’s start with the naughty, just because that can be a little bit of fun. Snowman Poop Snowman poop is so easy to make. Just place … Continue reading →

Home Week in Review: November 12 – 18

This has been a week filled with various holiday articles from Veterans Day to Thanksgiving, and even touching on Christmas. This is a busy time of year, so we hope some of our tips and ideas will help make things a little less hectic. We started the Countdown to Thanksgiving at Seven Days and Counting. More tips were added with Six More Days and again at Five Days Away and now we’re left with only Four Days to Go. Mary Ann offered a different type of checklist, with 12 Things to Do in November. Several of this week’s articles had … Continue reading →

The Snowman Conspiracy (2)

What happens when a blogger starts noticing the snowmen. Is she right or just crazy? This is part two of The Snowman Conspiracy. Those are so easy to collect aren’t they? My collection first started with a Christmas gift from our in-laws. It is the cutest door sign that is personalized with our name. It features three snow people, two adults and a child, a representation of our family at the time. We still cherish it and display it, even though our family has grown from three members to five. After that, we just had to have some stuffed snow … Continue reading →

The Snowman Conspiracy (1)

Is a snowman a fun loving holiday icon or a clever conspiracy? You decide. It finally happened, late last night. The kids fell asleep to the sounds of a cracking fire in the fireplace and the last lines “There’s no place like home” from “The Wizard of Oz.” As my husband carried the little ones off to bed, I padded through the house adjusting the thermostat, turning off the lights and cleaning up stray toys. As I headed back into the family room, I spotted something on the stair rail. Just another discarded sock, I thought, and sighed aloud. But … Continue reading →

Picking Our Own Trash

Some times sweating the small stuff can add up. It all depends on your circumstances and your level of frugality. Here is one of the things that we have done this past week that could be considered frugal. We keep a large, lined, garbage can down in the basement. In this can goes dryer lint, burnt out light bulbs, and various home improvement trash. Basically, anything that isn’t food gets thrown in this garbage can. Every once in a while, when the can is looking full, I’ll go and raid it while I am waiting for the washer to fill … Continue reading →

Send A Letter to Santa Online

Kids today don’t have to bother writing out their letters by hand anymore. Nor do they need to seal and address an envelop or drop it into the mail. Santa is a modern guy and has a host of elves manning his web and e-mail station. Sometimes the big guy will get right back to you, but other times he just might be a bit busy to reply, although I am told that he reads every letter he gets. Here are some of the places you can go online to send and sometimes receive letters from Santa. Don’t forget to … Continue reading →