Spring cleaning Summer Saving

Okidokie my peeps! It officially Spring as of Tuesday!!! Yippie! Spring! Warm weather! *does happy dance."

Its time to start the spring clean and summer savings! Over the next few weeks I hope to post a lot of ways for saving and cleaning for the warmer weather that is already here.
When it comes to spring and summer, it seems like our spending gets a little worse while our wallets seems to get a little smaller.  So to combat our ever shrinking wallets, let start off with a little saving!
One goal I have in mind is for the electric. You probably hear it all the time, but turning off your air conditioning can save you money. And keeping it off can save you loads of money. So I have it set in my head I am keeping the air off until July. (Ha! Lets see if I can keep that way.)
Ways to keep cool though while the air is off is the tricky part. Besides keeping windows up and fans blowing in your window a few thing that can be done are...

1.) Change our your curtains for sheer ones. This not only can bring in lots of natural light into your house, but also allows more air to escape and flow.



2.) During the hottest part of the day, bowls of ice and water in front of the fans work almost as good as air conditioning. When you are done with the water, you can water your plants outside with it, so nothing is wasted. :)

3.) Trade out heavy comforters for lighter blanks. And the same for all the pillows. I am not saying replace all your pillows with thin ones, just maybe take the heavy pillows. I have no idea if this actually makes your house cooler, but it makes you feel cooler.

4.) Now this one is really up to you. I do this sometimes, because it does help somewhat, but not using your oven help to not put heat in the house. I actually like to do a day where I cook all my meals in one day and I freeze them. All I have to do is pull it out and pop it in the microwave for a few minutes.

5.) Same goes for your dryer. Keeping your dyer to limited use works as well. But I understand not liking that weird feel in your clothes after they have been air dried outside.  :P


Anywhoalls!
this is just the beginning., I will keep you update with my goal of keeping my goal of keeping my air off until July. No worries I am not too crazy. It it gets hot enough the air will go on, but not until then!

Another few things to add, which I hope to start posting in every post is a deal of the week! Since it the end of the week, here is an awesome deal for you. Lots of coupons for Silk milk. I am going to use mine for their dark chocolate milk. One thing I love and my family loves is chocolate milk. Problem is it not that healthy. Now this Dark Chocolate Milk from Silk, still have it sugar, but a is a few calories less and has lots more vitamins than your normal sugar and calorie filled drink. It is also richer and fuller in taste then regular chocolate. Here is a couple links below
https://silkparegistration.icmodus.com/

Also one on coupons.com!
http://www.coupons.com/couponweb/Offers.aspx?pid=13306&zid=iq37&nid=10&bid=0323190358878ac92ee14010

Anywhoalls. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and beginning to Spring! Looks for more ways to save and clean for spring and summer as well as a weekly deal to come!
God bless

Until another day

Toodles!

March Update on Life and mother's day list!

So it March! Yippie! Spring it in the air! You can feel it in your toes! The Daffodils are blooming and your hair looks like it had wacked up blow job. *keeps brushing hair*

So a brief update on my life! So far I have signed up to run half a marathon on April 15^th. For those who know me, I have never ran a marathon before, much less did running at all. But with God’s grace I can least crawl across the finish line and saw I did 13 miles!! In the end its for a Charity called Run for Her which through the organization called As Our Own.

I’ll post a link bellow and a link if you would like to make donations to sponsor me. I would like to raise 500 dollars for the girl named Ratna in India. Details are the link below.

 https://iwillrun.myetap.org/fundraiser/stlouis/donate.do?sponsor=977.0.272628935

Another thing, is little baby girls is learning to crawl! Has her first tooth. Top teeth are coming in. My last wisdom tooth is coming in and hurting. Hubby Man is doing good, keeping up with 40 push up a day. And over life is normal!

But also planning a 1^st birthday party, themed Lisa Frank style as you can tell from my last post. Hehe, I getting carried away with it, but it should be fun!

Also coming soon is mother’s day! Yippie! I have decided as I was writing this to make a list of ideas, which would be great gifts for those who have no idea how to shop for their mother and where tired of getting ideas from a yahoo article!

First would be my favorite.

A picture charm bracelet. This is sweet and personal. Put a picture of yourself, all your sibs, or grandbabies, whoever. Cute and affordable!

 This one I made myself. I making these to put on etsy. But you can buy one in a store, but to make one yourself is relatively easy as well! :) Supplies can be found at Hobby Lobby :)

Another great idea would be these things called diamond candles. This is 25.00 plus shipping so a bit pricer then most things, but still worth it. It soy candle with great scents you can choose from. And the cool part about is at the bottom of the candle is a diamond ring worth from 10-5000 dollars. I just wanted to try it out so I ordered this Chocolate truffle one to try it out. (No I am not being sponsered to advertise this. Too poor and little blog for that. :) There is a below the picture. And I will post a picture of the ring I get whenever I melt my candle. Don't be tempted to dig an damage your candle. For 25 bucks at least enjoy the smell!

http://www.diamondcandles.com/collections/all/products/chocolate-truffle

Also a great idea, since I am shopping online is this idea called birch box. Again I am not sponsdered for this, but for the make-up guru mom, like mine, this is great. Also easy on the wallet! You pay 10 dollar a month, or just 10 bucks one time to purchase this box, which is delivered to your house with 4-5 high end make-up items you get to try out. And you are not getting this itty-bitty sample. You get a full size or at least enough to try out for a weak. Link is below

https://www.birchbox.com/

Another and always classic gift is flowers. Everyone loves flowers and they are so sweet to receive. I m such a sucker for flowers I got to walmart and purchase those cheap 5 dollar bouquets just for the fun of it. The price is pretty much whatever you can spend. Not to expensive if on a tight budget or you can get really big exotic flower if you have extra to spend. 

In the end, just show your apprectian to your mom on her day. 

The best kind are though homemade cards, drawing, music, etc given from little kiddos! hehe so cute to see them put their hard and soul into their gifts. Anywhoaalls, I know I skipped over Easter, but I am in denile that Easter is coming up.

Until another page. 

Toodles!