A little about Lemons and lavenders: Author Billee Sharp shares her freecycling, budget-savvy, barter-better wisdom in this step-by-step handbook for revolutionizing spending habits and reclaiming quality of life. Lemons and Lavender is an inspiring and instructive guide to living the handmade life by consuming less and creating more. Practical and profound, this handy how-to covers every area of life and offers easy-to-do tips, recipes, and advice for saving money and the planet. Learn how to ditch your lawn and raise organic vegetables, cook healthy meals for pennies, cure minor maladies from the kitchen cabinet, save big dollars with small repairs, and eco-clean your house with lemons and lavender. With this guide, families can live more joyfully and far more creatively, all on a dime.
Being a newly single mother, I have realized how much it actually costs to run a household. Thankfully I have been able to do so these past 9 months… But there are a ton of GREAT tips in this book. Some of my favorite tips are:
1. Keeping a Change Jar. I have always had some type of Change Jar, but Since moving out on my own, I have made sure that any change that I had from my day, went right into the change jar. This jar – in 9months – is Almost completely full ( and it was only a quarter full when i moved)
2. Save a dollar a day. This is something that I have yet to do, but it is a super great idea. If you think about it. 1.00 a day … times 365 day - is a good chunk of change. You can put this towards bills, or if you have kids, put it towards their college fund.
There are another 200 plus pages of great tips and suggestions. You can purchase this bookonline for $15.95.
1. Keeping a Change Jar. I have always had some type of Change Jar, but Since moving out on my own, I have made sure that any change that I had from my day, went right into the change jar. This jar – in 9months – is Almost completely full ( and it was only a quarter full when i moved)
2. Save a dollar a day. This is something that I have yet to do, but it is a super great idea. If you think about it. 1.00 a day … times 365 day - is a good chunk of change. You can put this towards bills, or if you have kids, put it towards their college fund.
There are another 200 plus pages of great tips and suggestions. You can purchase this bookonline for $15.95.
*I Received this book in exchange for this review. All opinions expressed are 100 %my own.
misavingsmama
I am a mom of a 5 year old lil man. I work full time away from the house so I am always on the lookout for new things that will make my life easier!
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