I’ve learned so much over the past few months about simple living and saving money. Here is the list of websites/blogs I read regularly. They cover a wide range of topics –  saving with CVS, inexpensive recipes, investing, couponing,  DIY & much more.

Do you have a favorite site not listed? Leave it in a comment below!

The Bargain Shopper Lady

Be CentsAble

beingfrugal.net

Chief Family Officer

Cindy’s Porch

Coupon Mom

craigslist

Free Stuff Times

Frugal Hacks

Frugal Upstate

Gotta Deal

The Grocery Cart Challenge

Like Merchant Ships

Living On A Dime

Money Saving Mom

One Money Dummy Getting Smarter

Simple Savings

Tammy’s Recipes

TipNut

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This week’s WFMW is the Mom I’m Bored edition. Here are a few fun things we’ll be doing this summer:

Go on a Nature Scavenger Hunt. Use this Egg Carton for little ones who can’t read yet.

Make a Duck Tape Bullwhip for your Indiana Jones wanna-be.

Go out on the town and Do Something Free this weekend.

Have some Watermelon Fun with all these zany patterns. Don’t forget to have a seed spitting contest!

Here are some of my favorite patterns:

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After a long search for a chore chart online, I found this one at Chart Jungle that works great for us. I filled one out for each child, put them in page protectors and we made a Chore Notebook. My kiddos enjoy looking at their chart and making sure they completed everything so they can get their monthly allowance. (They each get their age in money the last Friday of each month: 3 y.o. gets $3, 5 y.o. gets $5, etc.)

If the chart we use doesn’t work for you, I bet one of these will:

More charts from Chart Jungle

Editable chart with clip art scroll down about 1/2 way

The Idea Door has lots of ideas & age appropriate lists

Pet Care charts

House Chore pictures

Children’s Clean Room Challenge I’ve used this one – works great!

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Tips I want to remember:

Family Bank

Jams, jellies & curds

Free cute blog headers

Wood saver – water marks

Fried strawberry pies

Hidden Homeschool

I received this handy-dandy list in an email from Vocalpoint. My kiddos don’t have cell phones, but we work with teens at church and now I don’t have to pretend I know what they are talking about.

• AFAIK – as far as I know
• ASAP – as soon as possible
• B4N – bye for now
• BBS – be back soon
• BFN – bye for now
• BRB – be right back
• BTW – By the way
• CUL – see you later
• DQMOT – don’t quote me on this
• EOM – end of message
• FWIW – for what it’s worth
• FYI – for your information
• GL – good luck
• GMTA – great minds think alike
• HT – hi there
• HTH – hope this helps
• IAC / IAE – in any case / in any event
• IMO – in my opinion
• IMS – I am sorry
• JK – just kidding
• JMO – just my opinion
• JTLYK – just to let you know
• LOL – laughing out loud
• NP – no problem
• OTOH – on the other hand
• ROFL – rolling on the floor laughing
• TA – thanks again
• TIA – thanks in advance
• TTYL – talk to you later
• TU – thank you
• UW – you are welcome
• WTG – way to go
• WU? – what’s up?
• YBS – you’ll be sorry
• YW – you are welcome

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I came across this little online game recently called The Impossible Quiz. It’s very clever and addicting, but can also make you want to pull your hair out! There’s also an Impossible Quiz 2 if you are a glutton for punishment.

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