Now that the gifts are bought WITHOUT going into debt and WHILE staying on budget, here are a few ideas for how to wrap them for less. As with most of the articles I've posted so far, the 2 best ways to save are to (1) Buy on clearance and (2) Make it yourself. You guys already get the whole buying on clearance thing (the week AFTER Christmas is going to be your best bet for grabbing some ...

Ask any teacher and I can pretty much guarantee that they will tell you to PLEASE go easy on teacher gifts. They definitely don't want you to go broke this holiday season, and they have to find somewhere to PUT gifts from 30 (or more) students. Let's say that a teacher just has 30 students and she's been teaching for 5 years. That's 150 things that she has to figure out what to do with! So ...

I LOVE Christmas decorations! Love love love them! And the holiday smells too. Cinnamon, cloves, vanilla... COOKIES... well, you just can't beat them! But decorations can be expensive and retailers do everything they can to convince us that we need to keep buying more from them... at full price. So how do you save and still have a fun and festively decorate house? I'm sure you guys have ...

Ahh, Thanksgiving is over, the decorations are up (unless you're a procrastinator like me, lol!) and it's finally time to relax and make some homemade Tea Cake Cookies! Except you have this one big project looming over your head that you have to get done soon... CARDS! And have you priced cards lately?  They seem to go up in price every time I look.  $2 for a customized photo card?  Really? ...