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Join Us: Deck the Halls Holiday Workshop at the Becoming Cottage

Bring your Merry and we'll make Memories as we turn our hearts towards home, decorate wreaths, create beautiful bows and leave inspired. Join us at the Becoming Cottage on...

SO EASY: Brownie Oreo Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

This Ice Cream Sandwich Cake is one of my favorite Go-To desserts especially during the summer. If you omit the brownie crust, it can be finished in ten minutes from start to...

I Have Apologies to Make: Infertility

I've laid awake at night scrolling through decades of apologies I’ve needed to make — instances when I didn’t know the unintended pain I’d inflicted or when I didn’t understand...

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Tasty Tuesday Parade of Foods

Tasty Tuesday Parade of Foods

As dogwoods bloom, tulips tip their hand, and cluttered closets are cleaned, I'm reminded that spring is in the air. With the windows cracked open allowing the sacred sounds of robins whistling in their newly formed nest, I'm invited to wonder. Spring announces birth,...

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Just Because…the Sale I Love!

Just Because…the Sale I Love!

Being affiliated with Dayspring has been one of the best results from my time as a blogger. Their heart shines through with their business goal: It also gives me the heads up on some of their awesome deals. As much as I love yard sales and thrifting, when I give gifts...

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$1.50 of Pure Turquoise Happiness

$1.50 of Pure Turquoise Happiness

This winter, I really took a step back from my typical thrifting. (Something to do with jam packed storage, and no space for more treasures until I de-clutter some more.) Yet when I wandering into a tiny, unpretentious thrift store last week, one whose door welcomed...

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Coupon Lingo: Couponing Abbreviations

Coupon Lingo: Couponing Abbreviations

Have you started "Extreme Realistic Couponing", but feel as if it speaks a different language? Well, it does. Here is an easy Quick Reference guide to learn the abbreviations behind your favorite store match-ups. Print off my Quick Reference Couponing Lingo and...

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ABOUT ME

As a mom of five blessings and full time family manager, Jen has learned to balance and embrace both the beauty and bedlam of every day life. Her practical, yet tangible, lifestyle ideas encourages others to open their eyes to a “living on less” mentality with hundreds of ideas on living a full life on less money.

She lives it, and invites you along for the journey.

Jen Schmidt

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