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How to Save Money When You Move

The real estate season usually peaks in the summer, which means that many families are either getting ready to move or have just moved to a new home. There is a lot of expense involved with moving. But with these tips, you can save hundreds of dollars. Moving Supplies and Services Moving can be a big expense; from closing costs or deposits to the price of movers, it starts to add up. We, ourselves, are in the middle of the moving chaos. We’ve found our perfect home and are waiting to sell our current one. Check out: The Frugal Move: … Continue reading →

Turning Trash into Treasure

How would you like a cool desk for your home? Follow the adventures of a friend who calls herself the “Trash Queen” as she turns another found piece of trash into a real treasure for her home. You may have read about my friend before here in the frugal blog. She is high on creativity when it comes to curb shopping and turning other people’s discards into usable items for her home, from a backyard fireplace made from a headboard to a kitchen table made from a door, the Trash Queen is constantly coming up with something new. A couple … Continue reading →

Decorating on a Penny

Want to update your room without spending a lot of money? Try these ideas that are cheap but look fabulous. 1. When in doubt, paint. Paint is a relatively inexpensive way to change out a room, update a room or brighten a room. If you do the labor yourself and get free paint, then it won’t cost you a dime. Click here to learn about free and low cost paint. 2. Throw pillows instantly add some color to a room without a huge expense. Make the pillows yourself to get a custom designer look for a frugal price. Throw pillows … Continue reading →

Frugal Ceiling Stars

Kids just love those glow-in-the-dark stars that you stick to the ceiling, don’t they. They are generally made out of plastic or come in sticker form. If you want to cover an entire ceiling, these stars can get pretty expensive. Well, here is a smarter way to fill your ceiling with stars for a fraction of the cost. And, as a bonus, these stars take care of the two main problems you get with the store-bought ceiling stars. Either they won’t stay on the ceiling, falling off instead, or they stick so tightly to that ceiling that you can never … Continue reading →

How to Choose a Paint Finish

Do you know the different between an eggshell and a semi-gloss finish when you are choosing paint? Here is an easy guide that tells you what all of the terms really mean and how you can choose the right finish for your paint project. As if choosing the paint colors for your home wasn’t hard enough, you still have to pick a paint finish. I have to confess that one time I spent so much time choose the color, shade and hue for our old bedroom, that I was completely clueless when it came time for the finish. The paint … Continue reading →

Basement Floor Savings (And Garage Floor, Too)

As you might now know, I am blogging over at the Home Blog (as well as here at the Frugal Blog and there at the Computing Blog), and I am sharing my family’s adventure as we clean out our garage. Now that the garage floor is nice and clean, my husband has mentioned painting it. Not only will it look much better painted, but it will help improve our home. Having the garage floor painted will also help it serve another function, as an impromptu place for gathering with friends and family during parties, when we need to expand our … Continue reading →

Saving Money on Wallpaper

Wallpaper can give any room almost instant appeal. It is a little fancier than paint ,and with proper care, it can last a good long time. Wallpaper sometimes has a reputation of being expensive. This isn’t because it is unusually expensive itself (just like paint, prices and quality can very), but because there can be a lot of waste involved. Reducing that waste will save you money, no matter which brand of paper you use. If you have fallen in love with a particularly expensive wallpaper then the waste issue becomes an even bigger issue when planning your room budget. … Continue reading →

How Much Paint Do You Need?

Getting ready to paint a room? User this guide to determine how much paint to purchase. There are some great paint choices out there these days. I ought to know. I’ve been priming up a storm in this house to get it ready for interior painting. Primer is pretty easy to measure. You just get a big bucket of it and use it throughout your rooms. The “real” paint, however, is a little bit tricky. You don’t want to overbuy and waste money, especially when some custom and designer paints are so expensive. And you don’t want to underbuy and … Continue reading →

Best Buys for June

Take advantage of this month’s sales and deals. Every month has its own set of items that are discounted or go on sale. If you know when to buy, you can save big. With June comes summer, and the stores are happy to oblige with discounts and sales on summer fashions. Actually, the stores were ready with their summer stock months ago, but now they are getting desperate to being in fall fashions, so the summer fashions are offered at great prices. I’m looking forward to doing a little shopping for summer clothes, especially since we have been spending more … Continue reading →

Frugal Ways to Decorate A Child’s Room

Want to jazz up your child’s room on a frugal budget? These ideas will help you design a cool looking kid’s room with not much more than paint! We certainly have our decorating cut out for us in our new house. For the first time, each of the children will be able to have his or her own room. Previously, the two oldest shared a room, while the baby was sleeping in our room and sharing my dresser for his clothes. I am really looking forward to being able to give the kids each a room that is uniquely theirs, … Continue reading →