{A simple, green, homeschooling family of six learning to thrive with less on a modern-day Iowa homestead.}
Part 6 in my series on Keeping a Low Grocery Budget is a little different this week. Cereal is next on my list to write about. But really, cereal’s boring. In a nutshell, if it’s not free, I don’t buy it. Most of it is sugary junk that doesn’t fill us up anyway. I can, [...]
Hard white wheat berries, hard white flour, flour from hard red wheat berries, unbleached store bought white flour Part 5 of my 10 part series on The Top 10 Things I Don’t Pay For is on bread! If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I grew up in Germany where they sell real [...]
Part 4 of my series on The Top 10 Things I Don’t Pay: Laundry Detergent. I’ve been putting off this post…I always make things harder than they need to be! This post required a bit of research and thinking on my part, not that that’s much different from any of my other posts. But thinking [...]
Part 2 of my 10 part series on The Top 10 Things I Don’t Pay for: Paper Products You might be surprised how much paper products can add to your grocery bill. I haven’t bought paper napkins or paper towels in so long, I can’t really tell you how much they cost, but I’m sure [...]
Part 2 of my 10 part series on The Top 10 Things I Don’t Pay for: Making my own cleaning supplies. As I mentioned in my original post, I mostly use vinegar and water to clean. When I started using vinegar and water a long time ago, I was trying to be green. Commercial cleaners [...]
I am starting a 10 part series on how I feed my family of 6 for around $250 a month using one of my first posts ever, The Top 10 Things I Don’t Pay For, as a spring board. Over the next few weeks I plan to discuss each of the 10 items I listed [...]
Welcome! I'm Michelle and I'm glad you're here. Simplify, Live, Love is a blog about simple life in rural Iowa. We are a self-employed, frugal, green, mostly homeschooling family of 6 working to go off the grid on a modern day homestead in Eastern Iowa. Please subscribe for gardening tips, green living hints, recipes, fun giveaways, and frugal ideas. Thanks for stopping by.
