The Frugal Grandmom – Page 385 – Sharing a Simple and Frugal Life

$100 Home Depot Giveaway

Disclosure: Affiliate link is included. Summer is the best time to work on projects in your home. Home Depot has all that you could ever need to spruce up the inside or outside of your home. You can go in or get home delivery for all your project needs. The Home Depot Giveaway is going to help you reach your goals. At Home Depot there are many purchase options: Come into the store, in-store pickup, curb-side pickup, and home delivery. There are many free delivery options, too. At Home Depot there are building options, including everything needed to build or update your home. The outdoor landscaping section offers beautiful plants, patio sets, and everything needed to make the outdoors your new living area. Need to paint indoors or out? Home Depot has all types of paints and stains. You only need to bring your creative ideas to find your favorite choices. Home decor items can really spruce up or update a room quickly. The choices of ceiling fans, light fixtures, and floor coverings can totally change any room! Children will love all of the outdoor fun equipment. Everything from a wading pool to a fun gym set can keep children sliding, climbing, and splashing. I’m glad to help promote this wonderful giveaway. Home Depot is giving away 5 Gift Cards! 5 lucky winners will each receive a $100 e-gift card from The Home Depot. Don’t miss your chance to win this super prize! Monday, June 29th at 12:00 AM PT to Thursday, July 2nd at 11:59 PM PT. Five (5) winners will receive a $100 e-gift card from The Home Depot. Users enter the giveaway by heading to the The Home Depot merchant page on Savings.com and submitting their email address on the form on the page. The winners will be chosen through a lottery drawing and notified on Friday, July 3rd via the email address they used to enter. See complete Official Rules for entry instructions, full prize descriptions, restrictions and other important details. Good Luck – Click the Link Below to Enter Summer At The Home Depot Giveaway Thanks for entering this great giveaway here at The Frugal Grandmom. To find more wonderful giveaways, check my Giveaway tab at the top of the page. The current giveaways are always being updated with new and fun giveaway opps. @2020, copyright Lisa Ehrman

4 Frugal Living Hacks

So many things can prevent us from living a frugal life. Everyone faces their own challenges, whether or not we know a big expense is coming or if it’s an unpleasant surprise. Unexpected bills can happen at any time. When life causes us to get into a financial mess, we need frugal living hacks to get back on track. When we were younger, we often let our credit card debt get out of control. We sometimes had more than one card that was almost reaching the maximum allowance. Instead of knocking out the debt immediately, life circumstances (like car repairs or medical bills) would bring us into serious credit card debt. When that happened we had a little budget meeting. To get out of debt we would go on a caveman budget and pay down the card quickly. Caveman Budget We called it a caveman budget (similar to a caveman diet). Sometimes we would discontinue unnecessary services, such as cable, newspaper delivery, or magazines. We made the choice to avoid all dining out and events that were unnecessary. There were no clothing purchases or movie nights out. We cut spending to the bone. There were months that we even took a No-Spend month. And, we usually paid off the credit cards in a few short months. We were a family that have moved numerous times. The first few moves were when we were younger and had stronger backs. We had all of our accumulated possessions plus my husband’s parent’s possessions. The belongings had not been gone through and we ended up having to move ourselves with two huge truckloads. This was very expensive and exhausting work. By the time we reached middle age, my husband decided that he wasn’t moving all that stuff again. We weren’t using most of it and had to store it in our attic or a paid storage unit. This was a lot of extra work and expensive. We decided to de-clutter our belongings. De-Clutter Possessions We started with the house and made four piles: things to keep, things to donate, things to recycle, and things to trash. As we found things to keep, we immediately boxed them up and labeled them. The things to be donated were placed in one pile. The trashed stuff went immediately into trash bags. Each week the trash was dragged out to the road, where it was picked up by the waste management. Get my Free Clean Your House Planner Our donation pile grew and grew. We had so much that we called our local thrift store to come and pick up everything at one time. We had them sign our itemized list, which made the donation tax deductible. Our recycle pile was also quite large. As we sorted our belongings, we already had boxes set up to divide the recycling into: cardboard, glass, plastic, and metal. My husband took all the stuff to a local recycling center. Getting rid of many of our unneeded belongings made our next move so much lighter. We only moved with one truck, instead of two. We saved tons of money and knew that we had done our best with everything that we got rid of. Make Do With Less After getting rid of things that we didn’t need, our entire lives felt lighter. We had less junk, but also had less clothes, shoes, books, and knick-knacks. We didn’t miss all those other things, and made a choice to not buy lots of things we didn’t really need. It was much better to feel content with less. As we adapted to living with less stuff, we looked at new purchases differently. We started trying to see how we could prevent future unnecessary purchases, by changing our thinking. Did we really need a new shiny object? Couldn’t we just use something we already had? As we looked around, we usually found that the new purchase wasn’t necessary. This really saved our budget! Put A 24 Hour Hold On New Purchases Many times when we browsed beautiful things on the internet, we’re tempted to just click and put that item into the cart. It’s also so tempting to just keep our credit card number in our favorite store’s online site. Before we knew it, we made too many purchases. Instead of making quick and unnecessary purchases, we decided to stop and think about it for 24 hours. If we talked it over and decided that we really needed it (and it was the best price available), then we would click purchase. These 4 Frugal-Living Hacks have helped me over the years to live a more frugal life. Making poor buying decisions is something that everyone can do. When that happens to you, don’t be so hard on yourself. Life happens! But, after that, remember these hacks and get back on track. What is your favorite Frugal Living Hack? @2020, copyright Lisa Ehrman

Giveaways

Kids Summer Music Jam Giveaway

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Post date June 26, 2020
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Kids will love this huge variety of music styles in the Jam Prize Package. Two winners will be the lucky recipients of the bundle below. Don’t miss your chance to win! Sponsored By: Sugar Mountain PR Hosted By: Love, Mrs. Mommy Winner Will Receive: A Kids Summer Music Jam Prize Package! $70 ARV! A $140 ARV Giveaway! Includes the following: Okee Dokee Brothers — Songs for Singin’ — the Grammy-winning duo presents a complete package for family sing-alongs. The 2-discs album comes with a songbook for the 27 songs. 2020 NAPPA and Family Choice Award winner! Value: $20 Dana’s Music Playground — A Place To Call Home — an album of songs about dwelling-places of animals and humans. Many of the songs delve into the habits and habitats of threatened animals — the honey bee, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and more. A 2020 NAPPA And Kids First! Award-winner! Value: $13 Lindsay Munroe (with Raffi) — I Am Kind — Imbued with joy and a deep respect for children, these 16 songs offer encouragement with sparkling simplicity. Raffi’s voice adds to the charm of this all-ages inclusive album. Value: $10.98. Included: activity pages relating to the songs. The Lucky Band — Paseo Lunar — These 2019 Latin Grammy winners and internationally touring family band present sweet and soft bilingual songs. Because right now, everybody can use a little rest! Value: $9.49 (a digital release only) Pinna.FM — 2-month subscription to this ad-free audio app for kids. They just released the tween pop album “Real Me” exclusively on Pinna.FM/RealMe. ($15.98) About Sugar Mountain Sugar Mountain PR is a public relations agency specializing in award-winning music and other media for children. Open To US and must be 18+ to enter Giveaway Dates ~ 6/26 9:00AM EST through 7/26 11:59PM EST Entry-Form Disclosure: Love, Mrs. Mommy and all participating bloggers are not held responsible for sponsors who do not fulfill their prize obligations. This giveaway is in no way endorsed or sponsored by Facebook or any other social media site. The winners will be randomly drawn by Giveaway Tools and will be notified by email. Winners have 48 hours to reply before a replacement winner will be drawn. If you would like to participate in an event like this please contact LoveMrsMommy (at) gmail (dot) com.

Home Reviews

Scentsy Summer Fun

Disclosure: Samples were provided in order for me to review. No other compensation was provided. All opinions are 100% my own. Opening my first Scentsy Sample Bag was a fragrance bouquet. The summer patterned bag is delightful and inside were the most amazing scents! I’m excited to share a bit of summer fun with these Scentsy products. Have you heard of Washer Whiffs? Scentsy has these sweet-smelling granules that come in a tub. My sample is called Amazon Rain Washer Whiff. The fragrance is a beautiful blend of tropical flavors. This includes: Melon, Orange Zest, Coconut Milk, and Jasmine. It’s great! Using Washer Whiffs is very easy. As you fill your washer drum with water, just add a scoop of the Washer Whiff. It brings your laundry to a whole new level. Not only does the scent last for weeks, but it also prevents odors in front load washing machines. Next, I opened the Lemon Verbena Counter Clean. This is so new to me, because I didn’t know that Scentsy had cleaning items. Now, one of my favorite scents is Lemon Verbena. I was eager to try this one! Counter Clean is a great spray product that works on sealed surfaces, such as: Granite, counters, and bathroom fixtures. It not only cleans the surfaces, but forms a clear dirt-repelling barrier. Each time that you use the Counter Clean, the barrier gets stronger. This means that you’ll have less dirt and grime to clean the more that you use it. It also comes in Sunkist Citrus scent! The other three items in my cute sample bag were two fantastic wax melts: Welcome, Summer and Buzz Worthy. Welcome, Summer is a mixture of watermelon, plumeria, and tropical waters. Sounds like Summer Fun, doesn’t it? Buzz Worthy smells good enough to eat! Check out the scents of this delicious scented wax: Sugared Almonds, Vanilla, and Honey. Are we sure this is wax? It smells like a sweet candy treat! I just love Wax melts! In our temporary townhome, we aren’t allowed candles. But, wax melts are the perfect choice, because of the electric warmer. I can enjoy these new fragrant wax melts any time and feel like I’ve gone on a vacation to a relaxing location. Check out these great scents at Scentsy. If you want to learn about all the new products, get great deals, and all the secret hacks for using Scentsy products, join me and others in the Facebook Group! We hope to see you there. @2020, copyright Lisa Ehrman

Giveaways

Win With Zales Giveaway

Disclosure: Affiliate link may be included. Clicking on links will cost you nothing, but help to support this blog. June is a top month for weddings. Our anniversary is this month and I’m sure that many of you also have a June anniversary. For all of you involved in weddings this month, you are looking for wedding gifts and wedding party gifts. One of the first places we think of for wedding jewelry is Zales. They have a huge variety of jewelry in every price range. Zales is hosting a generous giveaway, with 5 winners. Let’s take a look at some of these beautiful choices that are perfect for a wedding party gift or anniversary gift. Even if you’re not going to a wedding this month, you may want to jazz up your wardrobe with a lovely new piece from Zales. Giveaway Dates: June 22-25 Five (5) winners will receive a $100 Visa e-gift card from Zales. Users enter the giveaway by heading to the Zales merchant page on Savings.com and submitting their email address on the form on the page. The winners will be chosen through a lottery drawing and notified on Friday, June 26th via the email address they used to enter. See complete Official Rules for entry instructions, full prize descriptions, restrictions and other important details. Enter below to have a chance to win one of 5 $100 Visa eGift Cards in the #WinWithZales Giveaway! Zales $100 Visa eGift Card Giveaway Thanks for entering at Zales, The Diamond Store! I wish you all the best in this giveaway. To enter more giveaways, just check the Giveaway tab at the top of my blog page. Good Luck and thanks for stopping by to visit us at The Frugal Grandmom. @2020, copyright Lisa Ehrman