My DIL loves the half hand towels that I crochet tops on to hang on her stove and around the kitchen. She says regular towels always fall on the floor, but these button around a handle and stay put.

I came across something really cool the other day from one of my favourite online stores, macsales.com. It’s an electrical plug with two USB outlets built right in so you can charge your USB devices directly without having to find the electrical adapter.

My Father-in-law Dad Eco is one of those people who can see an opportunity in everything and it’s a wonder the things he can think of do with ordinary stuff. He says that, "especially if you have access to a lot of the same kind of thing, you are almost obligated to find somewhere to use it". Because he grew up around that mentality, The King never passes by anything that looks like it might be going to the landfill without looking it over and telling his Dad about it if he can’t think of a reuse.

Here is a great idea for free spring/summer entertainment for you and all of your friends! Best of all, its free!

One of the things that I like to save money on is the old power bill, but not really at the expense of our quality of life or our family’s security.

We have always felt better having our yard well light at night, especially in the winter when it can be pretty slippery.

Easter was always a special event when my kids were little. First of all we would spend all day dying the hardboiled eggs and decorating them. I well remember that chrome kitchen table covered with newspapers and kids sitting on their knees in the chair carefully drawing on their eggs and then choosing the colours they wanted their egg to be. I would make up pint mason jars with all different colours by putting about a cup of lukewarm water in each, 2 tablespoons of vinegar, and about a teaspoon of food colouring. Of course you could make the colours lighter or darker if you wanted by regulating the amount of food colouring you put in each jar. We only had red, green, blue and yellow food colouring, so if you wanted other colours you had to mix them together. Red and yellow makes orange, blue and red makes purple, blue and green makes turquoise.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve served homemade soup with most of my meals. When you have a big family, one of the ways you can save money is by starting out with a hearty bowl of soup to help fill people up. By the time they get to the main meal, it doesn’t take nearly as much meat and potatoes to do the job.

My friend Brian came with me to Sprouts. He’s in my class at school. Our Sprouts group meets at the school gym on Wednesdays.  

In an effort to save some coin on our heating and cooling bills, I installed a programmable thermostat at the same time that we replaced our old, inefficient furnace with a new high-efficiency unit.