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The Many Uses for Ikea Bags

If you know anything about me, you know I am a big fan of IKEA. IKEA is a great inexpensive place to go for accessories for the home and for the odd piece of furniture. I also think it is a great place to purchase Christmas presents. A website called IKEA Hacker that profiles all of the cool things you can do with different items from IKEA. The Ikea Hacker website shows you to to take the highly functional and cute IKEA items and turn them into decorative works of art. For instance, the white PS cabinet was transformed into … Continue reading →

An Ikea Christmas IS a Frugal Christmas

Ikea has dozens of great gifts that cost less than $15.00. If you want to give good gifts this Christmas and don’t want to make anything, and want the gift to be impressive, consider visiting IKEA for Christmas shopping. For less than $15.00 you can buy: Portable laptop desk for your laptop Ikea has several of these in different shapes and sizes. A child’s chair you can paint the child’s name on it for a personal touch. A pair of tab-top curtains in numerous colors. A mobile to hang over a child’s bed. A child’s easel to hours of drawing … Continue reading →

A String and a Button Toy

Tonight one of my nine year olds was playing with a long strand of beads that we use for Christmas decoration. The way he was twisting the strand to make the beads spin reminded me of a very old toy. You take a button and a long piece of string or yarn. The button needs to be the kind with holes through it, not the kind that is flat on front and has a single hole on the back. You put the string through a hole in the button and tie the string. Or you can put the string through … Continue reading →