A-B-C Frugality

I’m a HUGE soda drinker (my vice, alas), so when I started seeing the SodaStream Fountain Jet home soda making machine around the blogosphere, I absolutely had to contact them to see if I could review one for myself.  Naturally, I was ecstatic when they agreed to let our family try one out!  A prompt [...]

Clean Home, Healthy Home: Green Your Products and Save $360 a Year or More
If you are spending an average of $30 a month on cleaning products for your home, you could save over $360 a year by making your own cleaning products.  The following is a room by room list of products in your home [...]

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% [...]