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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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The Weight Loss Roller Coaster

The Weight Loss Roller Coaster

I'm tackling a subject matter over over the course of the next week that I have been avoiding for too long. A topic that steps on toes. A topic that pulls at the root of many womens' emotions. A topic that can offend, even when not intended. A topic that hurts. A...

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Honor Grandparents this Sunday

Honor Grandparents this Sunday

Celebrating Grandparents – This Sunday, we celebrate an overlooked, but wonderful holiday -  National Grandparents Day. Celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day, the holiday was created to remind grandchildren to tap into the wisdom and heritage their...

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Deciding On a Set of Cookware to Purchase

Deciding On a Set of Cookware to Purchase

There are many things I am, but one thing I am not is an impulse buyer, especially when it means making decisions about things I deem "investment" type purchases. For two months now, I have been researching cookware. I know, I know, that's too long of a time to...

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Need an Idea for Your Extra Coffee? Iced Coffee

Need an Idea for Your Extra Coffee? Iced Coffee

Forever, I will declare my love of a good morning cup of coffee. Starbucks brewed fresh in my coffee maker saves me hundreds of dollars that can be used for other things. Yet most days, I always have a little bit of coffee left over.  For years, I've just dumped the...

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Take the Color Challenge – Frugal Fashionista

Take the Color Challenge – Frugal Fashionista

Are you new to my Frugal Fashionista series? Find out how I dress for less with designer outfits for mere pennies on the dollar. Yes, all outfits  from head to toe are less than $15, and did I mention…second hand?) In the matter of frugal fashion, color is power! A...

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Home Depot Free Weekend Workshops

Home Depot Free Weekend Workshops

In the past, many of you have taken advantage of fabulously free workshops at Home Depot. They are offering some great ones over the next few weekends, so here are the current workshops going on. You know how I think that paint is the quickest and most frugal face...

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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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