Day 3: Set Alarms to Beat Procrastination

31 days to building a cleaning routine

Welcome back to 31 Days to Building a Cleaning Routine!

Monday I introduced what I’ll be blogging about this month. I also talked about how to figure out what margin time you have available to start your cleaning routine.

Tuesday I showed you my cleaning routine and walked you through how to start your own!

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Day 3 task: Set alarms to tackle tricky tasks

Since I have the most free time in the morning to tackle my cleaning, I decided I needed a good night’s [...]

Tomorrow starts a week of Giveaways!! + Happier for the 'Ber

7 days, 7 different giveaways!! So exciting. My 1 year blogiversary is Sept. 5th, but I’m celebrating all week! Don’t miss out. Each day I’ll post something new.

 

 

This giveaway list includes: Grocery budget & Menu planning ebooks, Mason Jar Tumblers, Air Wick, Duct Tape, My Memories digital scrapbooking, and Lia Sophia!! And everything is FREE, FREE, (plus some good deals)!

 

Happier for the ‘Ber (Months)

…you know Septem-ber, Octo-ber, Novem-ber, Decem-ber. I’ll tell you about that in a little bit, but first I want to review the Summer Goals I had and what [...]

Dating Dime: How to spend 1 day in St. Louis (or, how we did it)

how to spend 1 day in St. Louis

So, Monday evening we decided to take a spontaneous trip to St. Louis all day Wednesday because my husband’s FAVORITE BAND EVER was going to be there (birthday gift from me). Then, we used our anniversary money to make this our anniversary trip for this year! And we only had 1 day to plan!

 

 

So, we were a little CRAZY. My husband worked both Tuesday and Thursday so we had 1 day in which to drive to St. Louis, enjoy it, and drive back. Since St. Louis is an almost 5 hour [...]

Excited about September: Fall, Giveaways, & Birthday trip

fall inspiration board

Hello! How are you? I hope you are doing well!! I have several things to share today – it’s kind of a random miscellaneous post.

 

All Things Fall

I think I’ve mentioned before than my sister Amy has a blog, The Happy Tulip. She’s even guest posted here before. Her blog mostly features recipes and DIY projects she has tried and used to improve her home (which is gorgeous, by the way).

Her latest post I LOVE, because I feel the same way – I’m so excited for fall this year! Amy shares four projects [...]

Book Club Fun & DIY Mason Jar Tumblers

DIY Mason Jar Tumblers

Happy Weekend!!

I’m in a book club, and we have the best group of ladies ever!! This last month we wanted to meet and do more than just discuss a book. We wanted to include food, fun, and a little bit of DIY!!

 

We started planning the food first. I was hosting this meeting and provided  vegetable pasta salad. In addition we had a wonderful meal of fruit, bread, Beer cheese, hummus, and plenty of dessert!

 

 

Don’t [...]

Summer Goals in review

it's never too late

source from MoneySavingMom.com

 

Giveaway Winner!!

Our Giveaway Winner is Carrie from In the Sweet Sunshine!! Congratulations, Carrie for winning  Your Grocery Budget Toolbox. You should receive an email shortly.

I will be hosting more giveaways to celebrate my blogiversary on September 5th!! Watch for details. July’s Goals list Update

In January, I shared most of my goals for 2012. Then, I broke those goals down into monthly and weekly goals. This summer has been slower going with some of my goals. Summer is just a crazy time of the [...]

Instagram fun & Men's Daily Photo Challenge

Manstagram image

Hello everyone! I’m not going to be posting the Weekly Grocery Deals or Frugal recipe this week. Tomorrow though, I’m going to share the recipe I used for pickles! Then, on Saturday I’m hosting Romance on a dime’s first giveaway! So excited!!

 

Today I wanted to put a little plug in for an instagram photo a day challenge my husband came up with. He was envious of the fun I’ve been having with Fatmumslim’s Photo a Day and I’m excited for August!!

 

He decided that all the Photo challenges out their were too [...]

June in Review & July Goals

source from MoneySavingMom.com

source from MoneySavingMom.com

 

June’s Goals list Update

In January, I shared most of my goals for 2012. Then, I broke those goals down into monthly and weekly goals. For the month of May I achieved most of my goals through the accountability of posting it here, and with the encouragement of my husband!

 

This month I didn’t do as well, but I did spend the first few days of it on vacation and had family in town for a week. I’m excited for July – each month and each week is a fresh start!!

 

Here’s [...]

Dating Dime: Outside Frugal Summer Date Ideas

frugal summer date ideas

Yesterday my husband and I went on a much-needed spontaneous date!! It was so much fun we didn’t spent any money (except at Costco). I just wanted to share what our “date” looked like and post other frugal date ideas!!

 

 

Costco

Costco was one of our first dates together. Matt’s dad had given him a membership card and 2 free Costco pizzas – they are HUGE and very tasty!!

 

For this trip to Costco we just grabbed some of the essentials – milk, cheese, olive oil, oatmeal, and ziplock bags (and snapped a picture).

 

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Coming up - Summer Blog Goals!!

summer blog goals

I’m getting ready to start a long weekend vacation break – yay!! So, I’m not going to publish a Frugal Recipe today.

Instead, I just wanted to say a quick word about some exciting things coming up!!

 

 

Within the month of June:

- recipe tab with all of Romance on a Dime’s recipes – 7 Foods to Make and Never Buy Again (with price comparisons) – header and blog look change (I can’t wait to show you!!)

 

This summer:

- first Romance on a Dime giveaway (let me know if you would like [...]