A-B-C Frugality

There are $12 worth of new Glade coupons available from Right@Home and Target currently is running a promotion:
Buy 5 candle tins, refills, or jar candles at $2.50 each, Get a $5 Target Gift Card.
Here’s how you can combine these new coupons with the Target deal to score almost-free or more-than-free Glade products:
Buy 2 Glade candle [...]

Whole Foods Markets have  Celestial Seasonings tea on sale for $1. Use the $1/1 coupons out from recent inserts or the $1/1 coupon in the “Save on Shopping. Save Kid’s Lives” booklet found in-store to get these for free after coupon. I love tea on a cool morning instead of Coffee, and these make awesome [...]

Decorating Your House for Pennies-Part Two:  Room by Room Ideas
Free and Low-Cost Ways to Transform your Humble Home into a Holiday Paradise

A Few Room by Room Ideas for Redesigning your Retreat:

Kitchen and Dining Room

A simple pretty bowl filled with some in-season fruit scored cheap on your last shopping trip can bring beauty and a [...]

Decorating Your House for Pennies-Part One: The Basic Principles
Free and Low-Cost Ways to Transform your Humble Home into a Holiday Paradise
Some people think that living the frugal life means a barren home, tasteless decorating and a minimalist attitude towards home décor.  This could not be further from the truth.  In fact, being frugal opens up [...]

This week at A-B-C Frugality, we’re going to be focusing on how to get your home ready for the hectic Holiday season using the least possible amount of your budget—as well as the most minimal amounts of your time and effort.  Everyone knows that unexpected visitors will often mean the flight-of-the-bumbee, fluffing-stuff-at-90-mph, this-is-the-cleanest-our-house-has-been-in-10-years dash, so [...]

Take your old Christmas lights to Home Depot from November 5th-15th and get a $3 coupon for each set (up to 5 sets) good on any energy efficient LED Christmas lights.
Home Depot LED lights will be priced at $5.97 during that promotion- or only $2.97 each after the trade-in coupon!
The LED light strings use 80% [...]

Gifts-in-a-jar are some of the most frugal and easy gifts to make.
Start saving your jars now from jams, pickles, etc., stock up on ingredients needed throughout the year or during Holiday sales, and in one afternoon with a little help and a glass of wine, you can have 10 or 20 gifts made for a [...]

During the Holidays, I bake–a lot. For the family, goodies to give as gifts, goodies to donate to bake sales, you name it.  Though this is the prime time of the year to stock up on baking ingredients, all the various ingredients can get pricey–especially when you forget to buy a needed ingredient and then [...]