frugal living
Emily's Frugal Tips is passionate about teaching you how to save money, and live a better life more cheaply. We are all about frugal coupon living, and different ways to save money on a tight budget. You can expect to find frugal living tips, frugal home decorating ideas, grocery shopping tips to save money, and the best tips to saving money. While learning to live well on less you might have come across many frugal living websites as well as many frugal home decorating blogs but here I teach how living rich on less is possible by experiencing my frugal home lifestyle. With my tips and tricks to living more frugally you will be able to save money while living well within your budget.
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5 Totally Clever Ways to Help Your Child With Homework
School is upon us and as parents, we have a ton of things on our plate. From changing up our morning routines, to shopping and getting to know teachers, we have our work cut out for us. To really make it through this whole back to school thing, we have to find ways to save us time and to maximize our kid’s success. One direct way to do that is to set up a homework schedule for your kids. Working on a schedule will create good habits for your kiddos, make good use of their time and improve their grades. It also will help you out by keeping you more…
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Back to School: 5 Specific Pokemon Go Learning Opportunities
Pokemon Go is officially unavoidable at this point and we as parents have our hands full. The game is everywhere and it is red hot. As parents, we need to find a way to leverage this Pokemon Go mania! Because the game is based around some pretty awesome platforms, we have a built in opportunity to teach our kids while they play. In fact, some teachers are actually working the game into their lesson plans for the coming year. Here are five specific lessons we can begin to teach our kids while utilizing the Pokemon Go game: Teach Mommy and Daddy How It is awesome when we can…
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Budget Friendly Back to School Lunch Solutions
With the kids headed back to school and summer winding down, everyone is looking for solutions to save money. One of the most overlooked areas to save money is in the kitchen. Some parents send lunches with kids to school while others pay for them in the cafeteria. Regardless of how you handle back to school lunches, there are opportunities to save money in the long run. Here are some important tips that will help you stay budget friendly for back to school lunches: Utilize your leftovers Packing your kid’s lunch can get expensive, but using leftovers can really eat into that expense. Every evening when you cook…
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Five Easy Tips To Save Money On Back To School Supplies
If you are like most parents, you are already feeling the crunch of school supplies. This time of year sends all of us searching for ways to save money on a tight budget. The school supplies lists are not getting any shorter, right? Fortunately, there are a number of really easy tips to save money that you can take advantage of. Here are some that have helped me the most over the years: Take a good inventory before you shop Every home that has children has school supplies laying around somewhere. Gather up what you already have and mark it off the list. Your kids may pitch a…
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How to Use Pokemon Go App to get Your Kids to be More Active
If you are like most parents, you probably groan every time you hear your children talking about the latest game they have playing. Your initial reaction is likely, “Great. Another distraction to keep my kid on the couch and staring at that screen all day.” Most parents have been there. Unfortunately today’s technologically centered world is great at creating more and more ways to discourage young people from being active. The good news is that the hottest thing in gaming right now, Pokemon Go, is a game that requires its players to get out and get moving. Get the Pokemon Go Ultimate Guide here Just in case you are unfamiliar…
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Five Tips on How to Read Successfully to Your Child
What’s the most important thing you would like to develop in your child? For a lot of parents it is to build intelligence. Did you know that the importance of reading at an early age is essential to building intelligence? Learning to read, and having access to a wide range of books at an early age is essential to language development in children. The earlier a child learns to read the better their language learning skills are as they grow. There are things that you can do early on to start your child off even when they are too young to read. Reading to your children as early as possible…
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Parents: 5 Mistakes You Are Making With Your Teen
Once your child reaches that lovely age of tween and teen days you have to start tweaking your parental ways a wee bit. No more is your child really a little kid anymore and with that comes the need to let go of your parental reign a little to allow your child to form into a pre-adult who is nearly ready to be on their own with a few short years. Many parents are clueless when it comes to raising teenagers, after all, the first time around any parent struggles with various stages of childhood. If you find yourself raising a teen for the first time, then please read on…
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Affordable College Admissions Advice for Teens
LifeLaunchr and TeenLife Announce Partnership to Offer Affordable College Admissions Advice for Teens For many of my readers there kids are going to be heading off to college in the next few years. In fact, many of my readers have teens already graduate or graduating high school this year. It’s so important to get a head start on college so our teens know how to navigate their new life. Now more families can afford tailored coaching, admissions, and scholarship advice for every high school student in the family at a fraction of the cost. The cost of college is threw the roof right now, and it is increasing every…
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Coca-Cola 2016 #ForTheDream Scholarship Deadline March 30th, 2016
This is part of a sponsored campaign with Dime Media and Coca-Cola, however, all opinions are my own. It’s hard to believe that my daughter will be entering her last year of high school later this year. When I think of that I think of how soon she could be going off to college, and that makes me a little bit nervous. College is really expensive. For many families it is not even an option. When I think about how many of my daughter’s Hispanic friends families are living paycheck to paycheck it just makes me wonder how they will pay for college. We’re living in a time that for…
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7 Valentine Day Crafts Kids Will Love
Valentin’s day was always my kids favorite when they were little. I remember how difficult it was to find the perfect cards or candy to go with the cards they like to give out in class because my kids wanted to find “just the right items” to go in them. They had a vision in their head, and once that seed was planted it was hunting season. Luckily now days we have bloggers and Pinterest to help us out, and a lot of times these projects are less expensive to make. Here are 7 easy valentine day crafts kids will absolutely adore. Valentine day crafts kids will love! Valentine day…
