Kids Eat Free Night at Denny’s

If you’re watching your pennies, but you’re desperate for a night out, you’ll want to check out Denny’s Tuesday promotion where kids eat free. You get two free kid meals for each adult buying an entree, which can really make for a cheap meal. The promotion is valid from 4 pm to 10 pm.
The website [...]

Kid’s Musical Instruments – Rent Versus Buy

The guys in my family are musical. The girls are all basically tone deaf. Weird, huh? Anyway, having all these musical men means we have been through the “I want to play…” conversation many, many times. The first time, we thought renting an instrument was a smart solution. Then, we realized that renting an instrument [...]

No, David Book Review

“No!” “Get down right now!” “Freeze!” Sound familiar? When you have a preschooler or toddler, it seems like you’re always stopping him or her from trying a new, but dangerous, trick. Your little one is frustrated, you are worn out and…It is time to sit down together to read NO, DAVID again.

We love NO, DAVID [...]

Teaching Kids to Be Gentle With Pets

We had a little incident the other day. Someone suddenly decided, after several months of proper kitten handling, that kittens could fly and gave the idea a test drive. Luckily, the kitten wasn’t hurt, but I knew we needed to have a little talk.
(The little guy who decided that flying kittens were a great idea [...]

This Week’s Shopping Trip Under $50

So, this week, I managed to stay under $50 again. I went to ShopRite and Walgreens. (I just can’t describe how happy I am to have a ShopRite near me again!)
At ShopRite, I spent a total of $33.10 and bought:

4 boxes Cheese Nips (reduced fat)
2 jars peaches
1 container sugar/cinnamon mixture
Anisette toast
Raisin bread
2 packs bagels
2 packs [...]

Need a New Mattress? Enter Sleep Number’s Must Have Sleep Contest

Select Comfort is offering a very nice prize in their new contest – a new Sleep Number bed. My mom has one and is pretty happy with it. If you want to enter, do it fast, though. They’re selecting the winner on April 2nd.

Nora Roberts Movies Coming to Lifetime

Oh, this is the nicest news! Four new Nora Roberts movies are coming to Lifetime, starting with Northern Lights on Saturday, March 21st at 9 pm EST. The other three movies, which will premiere on the following three Saturdays, are Midnight Bayou, High Noon and Tribute.
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Northern Lights stars Leann Rimes and [...]

$50 Grocery Challenge for March 15th

I’m bringing back my weekly shopping challenge, but am setting it at $50 because my frequent visitors have me feeding 4 and 1/2 people instead of 4 people. I also have a hamster, 3 dogs and 2 cats. I bought milk and bread earlier in the week for $7.49, which leaves me a total of [...]

Teen Privacy Tips

You want to trust your teen, but you don’t want to be naive. Should you allow teen privacy? If so, how much privacy should you give your teen?
Be Smart With Teen Privacy
As they leave childhood, teens are going through a lot of tough hormonal and emotional changes. They really need some down time to process [...]

New Name, New Location, Same Mama

Remember Simply Thrifty? I really enjoyed writing that blog for b5media and found myself sending constant messages to the new thrifty bloggers for BlissTree. I finally decided that I’m not about to stop being thrifty because I am blogging about different topics for BlissTree, so I dusted off this old domain name, gave it a [...]