Our Holiday Season This Year

As the holiday season is wrapping up, I wanted to reflect upon how it was for our family this year and what we did. December is such an awesome time of year with so many holidays, some for pretty much everyone, no matter what religion you are, and even if you don’t celebrate any religion, with the holiday spirit in the air and the beautiful lights and happiness all around, it is still amazing.


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Author: Penniless Parenting

Happy Ninth Bloggeversary and a Giveaway!

I am really excited to share that as of yesterday this blog is 9 years old, and I’m now in my tenth year straight of blogging!Last year in June I wrote the blog post that I intended to write on January 2, but life got in the way, reflecting on the evolution of this blog, but I must say that even since then so much has changed.I wanted to do a quick sum up of how my life and my blog evolved


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Author: Penniless Parenting

5 Ways to Keep Your Kids From Having to Take Sick Days This Season and a Giveaway!

We’ve been sick far too often this winter! Here’s some tips from a reader on how to keep from getting sick! Make sure to check out below for details about and to enter the giveaway!

No one likes to take sick days, but during the winter and holiday season they almost seem inevitable—especially for our little ones. During this time of year, schedules seem to get busier and the germs seem to


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My Amazing Scratch and Dent Store Deals!

Nearly all the extremely frugal groceries I got today. Not shown, 3 kilograms of rice.

I am beyond excited by today’s grocery shopping trip at the scratch and dent store. I happened to have 34 dollars left in my December grocery budget but when I saw the prices I decided to go over budget and use some of my January grocery budget to cover this, because as a very busy person it would have been


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Author: Penniless Parenting