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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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Boys Will Be Boys + Wisk Coupon

Boys Will Be Boys + Wisk Coupon

Over the last few months, I've had the privilege of giving the new Wisk Laundry Detergent a test drive to see if it lives up to what it's promising. It's been reinvented with a powerful new formula, but since it was the very first laundry detergent on the market with...

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Budgeting for Food

Budgeting for Food

For most people, the quickest way to see a tangible difference in their pocket book is by examining personal food expenditures, and attacking that aspect immediately. Why food? Because unlike other fixed income expenses that are consistent every month, such as a...

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31 Days to More with Less: How Much Do You Want It?

31 Days to More with Less: How Much Do You Want It?

From personal understanding, getting ones family finances under control requires many of the same tactics that I've been experiencing as I ride this weight loss roller coaster. As I share tidbits of money lessons learned, there will be those reading that have the same...

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A Sunday Siesta…Snoozing Makes You Smarter

A Sunday Siesta…Snoozing Makes You Smarter

Most of us learned years ago that our bodies need 7-8 hours of sleep a day, but did you know that six hours or less triples our chance of an accident? Hmmm....I had not heard that, but KNEW that I needed to spend today taking a Sunday siesta. An hour's nap can...

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If only I…      (31 Days to More with Less)

If only I… (31 Days to More with Less)

My daughter's voice echoed through our hall last week, "I can't wait till I am a teenager." A deeper voice, one in transition, retorted, "Well, I can't wait till I am a parent because...." (in which followed a soliloquy of disagreements about our parenting style. ) It...

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Freebie: Touch up and Go Cleaning Pack (limited offer)

Freebie: Touch up and Go Cleaning Pack (limited offer)

These free offers from Right at Home are some of my favorites. Cleaning supplies and I are on intimate terms because I am a sucker to try every product on the market. 🙂 e one of the first 10,000 eligible people to sign up and you will get a free Touch Up and Go Gift...

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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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