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May 28, 2013
7 Ways to Save Money on School Uniforms
The following post is from Tiffany of Mommy Goes Green:
source: Santa Catalina School
As the school year ends, I’m getting ready to pack up this year’s uniforms and thinking about next year’s purchases!
With two kids in a school that require uniforms, I’ve found a few ways to save money on what could be an otherwise expensive new wardrobe each year. There may not be a lot of style in uniform dressing, but there is a lot of money to be saved from buying a traditional school wardrobe.
Try these easy tips, and you’re sure to save money:
1. Shop at non-traditional stores.
Children’s Place, Target and Old Navy all have basic school uniform clothing such as plain colored polo shirts, button downs, khaki pants and shorts. You might subscribe to their email list so you know when uniform clothing is on sale and then save more with coupons.
2. Host a uniform exchange.
Our school hosts a clothing exchange each year where we can bring in clothing that no longer fits and exchange it for hand-me-downs that do. This is an incredible benefit, particularly on the higher end plaid clothing that is occasionally required. If your school doesn’t offer this benefit, start one with other parents. This could be as easy as putting together a Facebook group of school parents, posting photos of the clothing you have and exchanging them at drop off the next day!
3. Shop the clearance rack.
I’ve picked up numerous uniform pieces from the clearance racks at stores such as Gap and Macy’s for under $5. Uniforms don’t appeal to the masses, so stores have to clearance the last of their uniform items out to rock bottom prices.
4. Buy for the future.
If you plan on having your children in uniforms for years, you might as well snag larger clothing sizes when you find them for dirt cheap. I’ve got several pairs of basic khaki pants and polo shirts tucked away for future use.
5. Search eBay.
Create saved searches on eBay for the uniform pieces you are looking for. For example, save to your account “navy skort 8” and eBay will email you daily with all of the new listings fitting your criteria. When you find one that you like, and it’s got a great price, snag it. Oftentimes, you will find a lot of uniform clothing all in one size. This is a great way to start a uniform wardrobe.
6. Choose darker colors.
I love white so I made the mistake the first year of buying mostly white shirts. You can imagine how long those lasted with a 3 and 6 year old. If you have a choice, choose the darker colors that your school allows your children to wear. My kids mostly wear red, navy and green now.
7. Be a minimalist.
One thing to love about uniforms is that you don’t need much. If you can do a load or two of laundry each weekend, you only need 5-6 shirts, 2-3 pants or shorts, 1-2 dresses or skirts, 5 socks and a pair of shoes. With some of the tips above, you could score all that for less than $100!
How do save money on your kids school clothes?
Tiffany is a wife and mom of two, living simply to indulge her family’s love of outdoor recreation and travel. You can find her contributing at Simple Homemade, The Creative Mama and her personal home on the web, Mommy Goes Green.
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May 27, 2013
101 Ways to Embrace Summer {The 2013 List}
source: Mandi Ehman
For the past two years, I’ve had fun compiling and sharing a list of fun, memorable summer activities for the family. We rarely make even a small dent in these lists during the summer, but putting it together always inspires me to be more intentional about our time and to look for ways to embrace the every day and make the little moments count.
This year’s list was especially fun for me to put together because our two oldest girls are at an age where we can hand them the supplies and instructions for a project and watch them tackle it on their own, which means we’ll probably get to more of these things than we have in the past!
For even more ideas, click these links for the original 101 ways to embrace summer plus last year’s 101 MORE ways to embrace summer.
Be sure to check out this week’s bundle of the week, which is packed full of summer planning tips, activities and recipes!
Most importantly, remember there’s no reason to try to accomplish all of these things this summer; just pick and choose a few favorites and start there:
2. Make whole-fruit popsicles.
3. Go bird watching.
4. Make a set of Angry Bird cans.
6. Have a water balloon spoon race.
7. Go to storytime at the library.
8. Make leaf crowns.
10. Make a summer bingo board.
12. Make a parade stick.
13. Make a rainbow wind mobile.
14. Eat frozen yogurt-covered blueberry kabobs.
15. Make s’more treats.
17. Make sky jello.
18. Make paper airplanes.
19. Make solar crayons.
21. Go on a nature scavenger hunt.
22. Make one-ingredient ice cream. (Or three.)
23. Build with marshmallows on a rainy day.
24. Make a backyard play tent.
25. Make patriotic fruit pops.
source: Toddler Approved
27. Make glue batik tie dye shirts.
28. Make fruit rolls.
29. Make paper dream catchers.
30. Write to a pen pal.
31. Make pinata ice cream cones for the neighborhood.
32. Make accordion envelope books.
33. Make salt art jars.
34. Paint with ice cubes.
36. Grill cinnamon fruit kebabs.
37. Make summer sun art.
38. Turn old keys into a DIY wind chime
40. Learn morse code and make a morse code necklace.
41. Make ice cream sandwiches.
42. Make personalized bubble wands.
43. Serve a Very Hungry Caterpillar snack.
44. Grow your own grass heads.
46. Create your own dinosaur fossils.
48. Make homemade donuts.
49. Paint in the rain.
50. Hold marble races.
source: Toddler Approved
52. Make a stick journal for your summer adventures.
53. Race dandelion boats.
54. Make flavored water.
56. Create nature faces.
58. Make an edible snack necklace.
59. Paint a birdhouse.
60. Make balloon rockets.
61. Hold baking school.
62. Make an indoor slide.
64. Make spray sidewalk chalk.
66. Put on a shadow puppet show.
67. Swim in a pool noodle bath pit.
70. Hold soap boat races.
71. Set off a sparkly explosion.
72. Make paper fans.
74. Make star jars.
75. Make homemade musical instruments.
76. Learn origami.
77. Make a DIY catapult.
source: Shaina Olmanson | Food for My Family
78. Make refrigerator pickles.
80. Fill a summer treasure jar.
85. Go bowling.
86. Make bite-sized banana splits.
87. Make soap clouds.
88. Make cardboard cars for a homemade drive-in theater.
89. Make a masking tape car track.
90. Take a letter walk.
91. Make a beaded sun catcher.
92. Go fishing in the bathtub.
93. Make fizzing rocks.
95. Make slime.
96. Make a pompom flower bouquet.
97. Play cards.
98. Make chocolate “mud” playdough.
99. Make rockin’ robots.
100. Paint with bubbles.
101. Go foraging.
What’s on your summer bucket list this year?
Mandi Ehman is the founder and publisher behind Life Your Way and the co-author of All in Good Time, as well as a wife and the homeschooling mom to four beautiful girls. She lives with her family on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia and loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
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Exciting Changes on the Horizon at Life Your Way
source: Beverly & Pack
Happy Memorial Day!
As we remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our country and celebrate the start of summer with friends and family, I’m excited to share some news with you today about Life Your Way and how it will be changing in the coming weeks and months!
I first launched Organizing Your Way at the beginning of 2009; on Labor Day of 2010, we expanded to become Life Your Way; and last year we did a pretty big reorganization as we consolidated some of our channels and added new contributors.
In the beginning, my focus was on organizing and home tips, but I quickly started to feel constrained by those limited topic areas. Then, I envisioned a magazine-style site where readers could learn from a variety of contributors, and I’ve really enjoyed Life Your Way in that form over the past few years.
Now, as we look forward to adding Baby #5 to our family this fall and as I spread my wings in other areas, like ebooks and retail sales, I’m reevaluating once again.
source: Mandi Ehman
It seems that it’s time to either grow the site bigger — with even more contributors, an SEO expert and dedicated tech support staff — or to regroup and refocus on connecting more with our existing readers.
And honestly? My heart’s just not in the first scenario.
Instead, I’m finding myself longing to go back to the good ol’ days, when I spent more time writing about my life — about green living and real food and homeschooling and marriage and, yes, organization — and less time managing the site as a whole.
And so, because I believe that the old adage should be “Winners know when to quit,” rather than “Winners never quit,” I’ve decided to scale things back a bit here on the site.
Moving forward, we’ll have fewer posts per day overall — two on most days, occasionally three.
We’ll still hear from contributors, but the contributors on our team will be writing about very specific topics. For example, Amy will be sharing tips for living with food allergies as well as allergen-free recipes and Jennifer will continue sharing her Homework Helps series.
In a nutshell, I feel like the two words that best describe this change are deeper and slower.
We’ll be slowing down and focusing on really delving into life together. Of course, we’ll still be sharing tips and ideas, but I’ll also be sharing a glimpse into my real life — the struggles and mistakes as well as the excitement and successes. I haven’t purposefully been hiding any of that from you, but running the site has been such a big job that I just haven’t had time to process my thoughts and put them into words!
I’m really excited about these changes, and I think it will make the site more valuable for you as readers as well as more enjoyable for me.
I do have one favor to ask to ask of you as we go through this transition, though. One thing I’ve missed as the site has grown is reader discussion in the comments. As we go through this change, I hope you’ll take the time to click through and share your thoughts on the posts that really resonate with you so we don’t feel like we’re just throwing ideas and thoughts and feelings out into cyberspace.
And as always, if you have any thoughts or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment or send me an email!
Finally, thank you for being part of the site. Some of you have been with us since the days of Organizing Your Way (or even longer, since the days of Doodles’ Place), and some of you are new to the site, but I truly do appreciate each and every one of our readers!
Mandi Ehman is the founder and publisher behind Life Your Way and the co-author of All in Good Time, as well as a wife and the homeschooling mom to four beautiful girls. She lives with her family on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia and loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
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Get Ready for Summer with This Week’s $7.40 Bundle! {BundleoftheWeek.com}
Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, and this week’s bundle is packed full of inspiration for delicious food, fun activities and more to help you make this the best summer yet! You’ll find tips for planning a summer of fun without losing your sanity, daily activities for kids of all ages, recipes to help you make the most of the food that’s in-season, tips and recipes for eating well on-the-go and dozens of delicious homemade ice cream recipes that you can make with or without an ice cream maker!
Hurry, though, because this bundle is available at almost 85% off this week only!
With your purchase, you’ll get all five of the following ebooks:
The Summer Survival Guide by Jessica Fisher
2013 Summer Survival Calendar by Susan Heid
Just Making Ice Cream by Marillyn Beard
Simply Summer by Kate Tietje
Simply Scheduled: On the Go by Tammie Nelson
Even if you’re not interested in this week’s bundle, be sure to sign up for the BundleoftheWeek.com weekly newsletter so you can be the first to know about the newest bundle:
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May 25, 2013
Weekend Reading: May 25, 2013
source: mandiehman on Instagram
This sweet girl is obsessed with cooking lately, and I’m trying so hard to embrace her passion and encourage her skills, even though having kids in the kitchen with me is not always easy (and makes me a little nutty, if I’m honest). She’s mastered hard-boiled eggs and homemade lemonade on her own, but she’s ready to move on to six-course meals and fancy desserts, so I guess we’ll be spending a lot of time in the kitchen this summer!
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Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. As always, check out what I’m reading to see the other posts that make me stop and think. You’ll find new posts all week long!
Summer Entertaining {Eat Well, Spend Less}
Six Tips for a Simple and Frugal Birthday Party | KingdomFirstMom.com
How to Feed 25 People Real Food & Not Lose Your Mind | Kitchen Stewardship
Eat Well Spend Less: Summer Parties on a Budget | Life As Mom
Save Big By Preventing Food Waste at Picnics and Parties | Denver Bargains
5 Fresh Ideas for Summer Sips (Watermelon Agua Fresca) | Simple Bites
37 Eat Well, Spend Less Potluck Dishes for Summer | Easy Homemade
Community {Moore, OK}
Quick Ways to Help the Oklahoma Tornado Victims | Amy Loves It
How God Feels About Storms | A Holy Experience
And Together As One, We Groan | A Deeper Story
Motherhood {In the Trenches}
How I Almost Became The Smug Mom | Mama & Baby Love
“Orange Rhino” Alternatives to Yelling | The Orange Rhino Challenge
10 Things To Remember About Motherhood | Finding Joy
Have a great weekend!
Mandi Ehman is the founder and publisher behind Life Your Way and the co-author of All in Good Time, as well as a wife and the homeschooling mom to four beautiful girls. She lives with her family on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia and loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
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CommentsThanks for including my “Smug Mom” post over at M+BL, ... by Haley @ Carrots for Michaelmas
May 24, 2013
3 Ways to Dress Up Scrambled Eggs
The following post is from Kate of Modern Alternative Mama:
image by steven depolo
We like to eat scrambled eggs a lot, especially in the spring. We buy our eggs from a local farmer, and they’re plentiful right now. If we don’t know what’s for breakfast (or sometimes, lunch or dinner!), we’ll make a pan of scrambled eggs.
But plain scrambled eggs can get boring. In fact, right now, if I had to eat regular ol’ scrambled eggs cooked in butter, I think I’d gag. Blah.
There are great ways to dress them up, though, to make them extra delicious!
Add meat or cheese.
Our favorite way of cooking scrambled eggs is often to add some sort of meat. Sometimes, I fry a few strips of bacon, remove them from the pan, and cook the eggs in the bacon grease. That is so yummy. Use pastured, uncured bacon and it will also be healthy. You could choose to chop up the bacon in small pieces and actually mix it in the eggs, if you prefer.
We also like to fry up ground beef or sausage (we prefer pastured) and mix eggs with that. About 1/2 lb. of meat with 6 – 10 eggs, depending on size, is pretty good.
Top any of these with cheese, if you like.- I actually like Romano or Parmesan best for this, but others prefer cheddar, Swiss, etc. Sprinkle it on just after they’re done.
Add veggies.
Sautee your favorite veggies in butter (or bacon grease!) and add your scrambled eggs to that. We like tomatoes, onions, peppers, and mushrooms. It doesn’t have to be an omelet. You can stir these veggies right into the scrambled eggs. Add some meat, too, if you like, and top with cheese!
Bake it.
Instead of “regular” scrambled eggs, try making a quiche or egg casserole of some kind. Add potatoes, spinach, cheese, etc. Dress it up with cream or a crust, or go crustless and make it simple. Any sort of scrambled egg-and-veggie mix can be baked for a simple and yummy breakfast! Bonus? It doesn’t require any tending as it’s cooking, like normal eggs do.
What’s your favorite way to serve eggs?
Kate is a wife and mommy to 4 and is passionate about God, health and food. She has written 7 cookbooks and is planning to release more in 2012. When she’s not blogging, she’s in the kitchen, sewing, or home schooling her children. You can find her at Modern Alternative Mama or contributing to Keeper of the Home.
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Learning About Punctuation and Capitalization (FREE Language Mechanics Printable!)
My mom and grandmother administered the girls’ standardized tests while we were in Florida (in West Virginia, a parent can’t administer the official tests that we submit to the school board), and one thing I realized when I was flipping through the test booklets was that we haven’t really spent enough time focusing on language mechanics — specifically capitalization and punctuation.
We use First Language Lessons from Peace Hill Press, but we haven’t been as consistent with it as we should have been, and I thought they had a better understanding of both topics than they did. (More on our 2013-2014 curriculum plans coming soon!)
This is actually the part of standardized tests that I like: the chance to get an objective view of where they’re at and what areas might need more work (although I will say that the emphasis on capitalizing months of the year and days of the week seemed a little overstated in the tests!). While we won’t be “teaching to the the test”, I think punctuation and capitalization are important, so I was looking for a good way to cover these topics with the girls over the summer.
source: Mandi Ehman
Our plan is to use these language mechanics cheat sheets to color code our daily copywork. The girls choose a few sentences from a book they’re reading to copy each day. With these printables, I’m going to have them circle the punctuation and any capital letters on their copywork in the correct colors. It should only take them a few more minutes but will hopefully give them a better understanding of where and how those are used. And I think it will be good practice for marking various parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs and prepositions, for example), which I plan to have them do next year.
Since I was making printables for us anyway, I thought they might be helpful to you all as well! Click here to download or print the language mechanics printables. Hang ‘em on a bulletin board or slide them in a page protector for easy reference throughout the school year.
Mandi Ehman is the founder and publisher behind Life Your Way and the co-author of All in Good Time, as well as a wife and the homeschooling mom to four beautiful girls. She lives with her family on a little slice of heaven in wild, wonderful West Virginia and loves coffee, chocolate, easy meals, beautiful things and minimalist spaces.
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May 23, 2013
9 Tips for Hanging Out Laundry on the Clothesline
The following post is from Emily of Live Renewed:
source: Emily McClements
One of my favorite green things to do when the weather warms up is to hang my laundry out on the line to dry. Clothes dryers are one of the biggest users of energy in our homes. We can help to protect the environment and save both energy and money by skipping the dryer and hanging our clothes out to dry instead.
I love the way that line dried laundry smells so fresh and clean, and line drying is more gentle on clothing and can help it look nicer and last longer, as the heat from the dryer actually breaks down the fabric. That is where the lint comes from.
Over the past few years of hanging our laundry out on the line, I’ve learned some tips that help it work best for me, and will hopefully help you get started with hanging our your laundry. Depending on the amount of space, as well as the type of clothesline you have, these tips can help you to maximize the amount of laundry you can hang up. Better yet, they will help your lined dried clothes to come off the line looking their best.
1. Shake your clothes to help remove wrinkles.
When you hang your clothes on the line they can come off virtually wrinkle free if you give them a good, strong shake before you hang them up.
source: Emily McClements
2. Hang clothes upside down to help avoid clothespins marks.
You can hang your shirts upside down by the hem to help avoid that tell-tale clothespin pinch marked and stretched out look at the shoulders. Also, hanging your pants upside helps to remove wrinkles and may be easier than trying to pin a thick waist band onto the line.
3. Hang clothes inside out to help avoid fading.
If your line is in direct sun, you may want to consider hanging you clothes inside out to avoid fading from the sun over time.
source: Emily McClements
4. Hang clothes in the sun to help remove stains.
On the other hand, if you have clothing with stubborn stains, or whites that are looking dingy, you can hang them out in the bright sun which will help to remove the stains and make your whites look bright again.
5. Throw clothes in the dryer on air fluff to help remove stiffness.
If you are worried about your clothes feeling stiff when coming off the line, you can always throw them in the dryer for a few minutes on air-fluff, with no heat, to soften them up. I find that if clothes are a little stiff at first when you put them on, that they will soften up as you wear them.
source: Emily McClements
6. Overlap the edges of clothes to help maximize your space, and use fewer clothespins.
If you’re tight on space on your clothesline, or don’t have enough clothespins, you can overlap the edges of the items, using just one clothespins for the edge of two items. Clothes make take a tiny bit longer to dry this way, but I haven’t found it to be a significant problem.
7. Use hangers to hang some items to maximize space, and save time.
For items that will go on hangers in your closet anyway, and won’t get the funny stretched out marks from the hangers, you can space space and time by hanging them on hangers. Then, when their dry you can transfer them right into your closet.
source: Emily McClements
8. Hang onesies upside down by their snaps.
If you have a baby that wears onesies, you can also save clothespins by hanging the onesies upside down on the line by their snaps.
Using those three tricks I can hang a full load of laundry on our single clothesline.
9. Unmentionables can be hidden behind other clothes.
Finally, if you’re worried about hanging underwear and similar types of items out on your clothesline, you can always hang them up behind other items of clothing to hide them. Or if you have a clothes drying rack, you can put them on there, where they will be less noticeable to the neighbors than up on line.
If you’re looking for other green laundry tips be sure to check out these other posts:
Choosing A Natural Laundry Detergent
Homemade All-Natural Stain Remover
How to Make Homemade Dryer Sheets
Do you hang your laundry out on the line? If so, what are your best tips for hanging out laundry?
Emily McClements is passionate about caring for God’s creation while saving money at the same time. She is a blessed wife and mama to two young children, and blogs about her family’s journey toward natural and simple living at Live Renewed.
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Dear Parents: A Plea from Your Child’s Teacher
The following post is from Jennifer, a lifelong educator:
source: John-Morgan
Most students are in countdown mode: they know exactly how many days are left until summer. Children and teens everywhere envision sleeping in, lazing by the pool, and playing with friends. All of those things are appropriate – when balanced with the realities of responsibility.
What is this teacher’s plea? Please don’t coddle your children this summer! Too many children are not required to exert themselves, either physically or mentally, for weeks or months. They return to school in the fall with a bad attitude. They resent the demands that a rigid schedule and tough curriculum require. Days of precious instructional time are wasted as teachers try – sometimes unsuccessfully – to get students back up to speed and into the mode of learning.
I agree that summer’s a great time to make memories and explore new areas. Kicking back and simply enjoying each other’s company can enhance family relationships. In addition to that, though, I encourage you to also give great thought to the amount of freedom you give your children during their break from the school routine. We convey a lot about our values by how we allow our kids to spend their time.
Please remember that hard work molds minds as well as character. Requiring your children to complete their chores before playing teaches responsibility. Limiting screen time teaches self-control. Expecting a daily period of meaningful reading communicates that learning is a priority. Insisting on exercise teaches good health habits as well as self-discipline.
When you raise the bar and expect more from your children than maybe you have in the past, you can expect resistance. Remind yourself that your goal is not to be your child’s best friend at this point in their lives – you are their trainer and coach. Kids aren’t truly ready for the freedoms of adulthood (making their own decisions about how they spend their time) until they’ve mastered the ability to handle the accompanying responsibilities.
Your kids probably won’t thank you for putting tighter parameters around them this summer. But your child’s teachers will see that your kids are head and shoulders above those who aren’t held to a higher standard. When your kids are grown, they’ll realize it, too!
How do you feel about expecting more from your kids this summer? How do your memories of summers as a child impact the expectations you have for your children?
Jennifer is passionate about children and education. She homeschooled her two sons for five years, established and directed a Christian school in Maryland for 20 years, and currently teaches in a public school in a Chicago suburb. She loves investing in relationships and delights in every moment that she spends with her family.
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May 22, 2013
37 Eat Well, Spend Less Potluck Dishes for Summer
Source: Shaina Olmanson | Food for My Family
This month’s Eat Well, Spend Less theme entertaining on a budget, and we’re talking about parties, barbecues, picnics and more, and I’m chiming in with healthy potluck recipes you can take to your next potluck:
In all honesty, my favorite potluck dish growing up was watergate salad, full of marshmallows, pineapple and nuts, but I’m not sure how well it qualifies for the “eat well” part of our series with its processed frozen whipped topping and instant pudding mix. That said, I think I’ll be adding this to our meal plan for Memorial Day because surely every kid needs to have it at least once it their life, right?
Head here to see which recipes made my list.
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