Hidden Money

No literally, hidden money.

I was flipping through the channels and came across a new show called Million Dollar Neighborhood.  I won't get into the whole show, but one of the tasks these people had to do was find hidden money.  First they found their net worth, then rechecked old tax returns, and also...the one I am getting at here, is they collected all the loose change in the house.  Out of the cars, drawers, jewelry boxes, anywhere.
Amazing how much money is just sitting in your house.

I will take this challenge and hopefully in a couple days I will have a total for you.
Now on the show, they included the kids' piggy banks.  I will not be doing that.  It is my son's money and I will be teaching him about banking later this summer.

How much money did you find?

Free Summer Activities

My son is done school on Monday.  Since I am a SAHM, I need to keep spending in check.  Here is a list of free or thrifty things we can do:
Playground
Picnic
Water balloon fight
At home science day (make a geode, density, cornstarch and water)
Geocaching
Library
Regal theater has free movies
Home Depot and Michaels have free workshops
Phila Art Museum (Free on some Sundays)
tour a local factory
cook/bake
Swim at his PopPop's house (visit grandpa and free swimming)
Visit a local farm, CSA, Pick Your Own
Lots of reading programs that offer free prizes or money( B&N, TD Bank, Chuck E Cheese, library)

And that is just off the top of my head. 
Enjoy your summer

T shirts

My son's class had a 3 legged race today, so I went to my rag bin, cut up an old t-shirt.  Material to tie the legs together.  Here is what else I can do with t-shirts:

Rags/swiffer 

 

Grocery bags

 

Ornaments 

 

Pillows

 

Quilt
 

First Post, first steps

My goal is to become more frugal.  I want to be able to stay home with my family.  In order to do that I need to save money and time where ever I can.  I want to document my journey, get advice from those like minded, and hopefully learn something along the way. 
Today I start my blog to show what I have done, what I can do, and what I hope to do.  I hope that everyday I can find some way to make it myself, reuse and not to spend as much money.