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Parenting Tips

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6 Baby Essentials to Buy Second Hand

Want to let your kids do sports, music, or art but are tight on money? Find out how to afford kids' sports and activities on a budget with these 11 simple ways to save on kids' activities and sports! These are great ideas for frugal families!

11 Ways to Save on Kids' Sports and Activities

23 Frugal Fall Activities for Kids - Check out these 23 Frugal Fall Activities for Kids of you're looking for some inexpensive, family-friendly fun this Fall for the whole crew. Parenting Tips. I want to do all of these this year!

23 Frugal Fall Activities for Kids

How to Keep Your Child from Trading Their Lunch Away - Make healthy, delicious, and fun school lunches for your kids that they'll actually want to eat with these 6 Tips to Keep Your Child from Trading Their Lunch Away. Parenting tips

How to Keep Your Child From Trading Their Lunch

How to Encourage Kids to Pack Their Own Lunches - Packing school lunches can be a hassle. Make sure your kids love their lunches and take a load off your own shoulders with these 7 Ways to Encourage Kids to Pack Their Own Lunches. Back to school parenting tips

How to Encourage Kids to Pack Their Own Lunches

10 Dollar Tree Items Perfect for Packing Lunches - Make lunch packing quick, easy, and most of all cheap, with these 10 Dollar Tree Items Perfect for Packing in Lunches for a fun and yummy school lunch for kids! Cheap back to school lunch ideas

10 Dollar Tree Items Perfect for Packing Lunches

How to Make Your Own easy DIY Homework Station - Set your kids up for success this school year with a DIY Homework Station that's just for them to work on their homework and school projects stocked with everything they might need. School and craft supplies organization ideas for kids 

DIY Homework Station

How to Make School Mornings Run Smooth - Make sure your school mornings are quick, easy, and stress-free, with these 8 simple tips for how to make school mornings run smooth! Parenting Tips 

How to Make School Mornings Run Smooth

How to Save Money on Back to School Clothes - Back to school time can be expensive! Save a little money, stay under budget, and send your kids back to school in style with these 6 tips to save money on back to school clothes. Parenting tips

6 Tips to Save Money on Back to School Clothes

6 Kitchen Safety Rules for Kids - Getting kids involved in the kitchen is a valuable life skill, but it can be dangerous.  Teach your kids to be useful and safe with these 6 basic kitchen safety tips for kids.  Parenting tips

6 Basic Kitchen Safety Tips for Kids

7 Safe Alternatives to Fireworks - Love fireworks but worried about safety? Have some safe celebratory fun this Summer with these 7 safe alternatives to fireworks.  Parenting Tips | Summer

7 Safe Alternatives to Fireworks

7 Fireworks Safety Tips You Should Know - Have a fun, exciting, and most importantly safe celebration with these 7 important fireworks safety tips you should know.  Summer | Parenting tips

7 Fireworks Safety Tips You Should Know

Natural Prevention for Mosquito Bites - Have more mosquito-free fun outside this Summer with these 5 simple and natural ways to prevent mosquito bites that are also totally safe for kids and pets. Parenting Tips | DIY

5 Natural Ways to Prevent Mosquito Bites

6 Tips for Teaching Manners to Your Sons - Being polite, thoughtful, and kind is an important part of making friends and life in general. Use these 6 Tips for Teaching Manners to Your Sons to help turn your sons into respectful and respectable men. Parenting tips

6 Tips for Teaching Manners to Your Sons

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Happy Halloween!

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Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

DIY Spider Costume for Kids - Make this easy, fun, and creepy DIY Spider Costume for Kids for a creepy crawly frugal do it yourself Halloween costume! So cool. Made from just a few black shirts!

DIY Spider Costume

Skeleton Cupcakes - Spooky but fun Skeleton Cupcakes with chocolate skeletons on top of your favorite cupcakes are a perfect easy Halloween treat for kids! These are so cute and easy! My kids will love them!

Skeleton Cupcakes

Black Cat Cupcakes Tutorial - Black Cat Cupcakes make a fun and easy non-spooky Halloween treat for kids! They're easy enough that anyone can make them! Fun project for kids to help with! Fun, quick and easy Halloween treats for kids! 

Black Cat Cupcakes

Jumbo Spiderweb Cookies Recipe for Halloween - Jumbo Spiderweb Cookies are a fun, quick, and easy Halloween treat for kids.  They're big enough to share and made with the all-time BEST chocolate chip cookies recipe. How fun! My kids will love these! Definitely making for their Halloween party treat!

Jumbo Spiderweb Cookies

9 Uses for Mini Pumpkins - Pumpkins are everybody's favorite! They just scream Fall! Check out these 9 Uses for Mini Pumpkins to squeeze even more pumpkin into your life while the season lasts! Love decorating for Fall and mini pumpkins are so fun! Love these ideas

9 Uses for Mini Pumpkins

More Halloween Recipes & Ideas

Falling for Fall

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkin pudding in a small glass topped with whipped cream and gingersnap crumbs with another glass of pudding behind. They're surrounded by mini pumpkins and a linen napkins.

Pumpkin Pudding

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Butternut Squash Gratin

Pecan cheesecake pie on a small white plate with a layer of pie crust, pecan filling, cheesecake, and crunchy pecans.

Pecan Cheesecake Pie

Pumpkin sheet cake topped with chopped pecans and a creme pumpkin. The cake has a bite taken out sitting on a fork on a small plate.

Pumpkin Sheet Cake

A piece of turtle poke cake topped with pecans and caramel sauce on a small plate.

Turtle Poke Cake

A southern sweet potato pie in a glass pie dish topped with swirls of whipped cream, all on a rustic wood background with a linen napkin behind.

Southern Sweet Potato Pie with Crumble Topping

A slice of no bake pumpkin cheesecake topped with a caramel drizzle on a small white plate on a rustic wood background.

No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake

Hasselback sweet potato on a baking sheet topped with flaky sea salt with more sweet potatoes behind.

Hasselback Sweet Potatoes

More Fall Recipes & Ideas

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Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

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Mint White Hot Chocolate

A slice of no bake s'mores cheesecake topped with mini marshmallows and graham cracker crumbs on a small plate.

No Bake S'mores Cheesecake

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Crockpot Breakfast Casserole

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The BEST Chicken Pot Pie

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