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I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.


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What Do You Do When Nothing Excites You Anymore and Even Getting Out of the Bed in the Morning is Tough?

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Yesterday One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Jennifer left a comment on the blog and to cut to the chase … She needs our help. We ALL go through rough patches, times in our lives when we are just sort of wandering around in a fog and simply getting out of bed in the morning is a struggle. We’ve all been there. And somehow, we got through it. So this is where I need YOU to come in.

I’d like you to read the quote Jennifer is referring to and then the comment Jennifer left below. Hopefully we can all offer up some little bits of advice to help her get through this tough time she is having right now.

Because honestly, we are all in this together.

~Mavis

 “When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” ~ Edmond Mbiaka

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“I read the daily quote and I have this question for you and your readers. What do you do when you don’t have a passion or life has gotten so hard that you lose it? I am going through an extremely difficult time in my life, I’m 49 and have absolutely nothing to get excited about or look forward to. I know I’m not the only one like this, so any advice or guidance would be appreciated.”

“I am looking for something that makes me look forward to getting up in the morning and going. I just read so many women talk about something that excites them and they can’t wait to do and I want that. With life being really tough right now, I need something positive to do and look forward to.”

~Jennifer

 

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Sweet Deals on Disposable Razors, Baby Gift Ideas, Cheesy Pull Apart Bread Recipe and More

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Quote of the Day  “It is good people who make good places.” ~ Anna Sewell

Hello Tuesday! On the agenda for today: Make more chicken broth and relax. How about YOU? Do you have anything exciting planned for today? Have  you already been sick this winter? I don’t know about you, but I am SO READY for spring!

Keep calm and carry on,

♥ Mavis

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Amazon Deal of the Day for 1/30/18 –

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Available Kindle Books I think look interesting…

The prices on Kindle Books can change quickly, so grab them while you can. Don’t have a Kindle? Download the kindle app on your other devices. It’s easy! 🙂

Subscribe and Save Deals

Subscribe and Save prices reflect a 15% discount for ordering 5 or more items in 1 month.

Looking for something to make for the Superbowl? This Cheesy Pull Apart Bread recipe is pretty amazing! Saving some to share with others is really hard. Get the recipe HERE.

Home and Kitchen Deals

Add on Items

*These are all Amazon Add-on Items and they will ship with qualifying orders over $25 and are eligible for free shipping on $25 orders with Amazon Prime {or will ship FREE on $35 orders without Prime}. 

Want to motivate the kids to eat their vegetables without slathering them in ranch dressing {not that there is anything wrong with that!}.  Try mixing it up a bit with Tzatziki Dip with Greek Yogurt, Cucumber and Dill.  They’ll get their veg and a little protein.

Kid’s Stuff

Amazon has 30 Kids eBooks on sale for $1.00 each. Go HERE to see the titles available.

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Meal Planning and Grocery Shopping Trips – Week 4 of 52

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{Lucy, waiting for dinner to be served}

This past week. It started off fantastic! Lot’s of energy, lot’s of easy meals and now that we are pretty much on clean out the pantry, refrigerator and freezer mode…anything goes.

Green beans and rice? Yes please!

Bagged salad? Done!

Little bites. Easiest dinner ever.

Meatloaf and roasted vegetables… Hey, a real meal! Also served this week: chicken soup, beef soft tacos and pancakes.

And then there was an early morning walk {and breakfast} with Mrs. HB.

Towards the end of our meal she got a phone call from little HB boy saying he was sick and that he wanted to come home. And me, being the horribly realistic and insensitive friend that I am said, “Is he throwing up? Is there blood? Does he have a really high temperature that requires medical attention? Can’t he wait another hour and a half for school to get out so his sister can drive him home {it was a half day}?” Seriously? You want me to drive you over to the school {a 45 minute round trip with good traffic} to pick up your kid?” {Mrs HB didn’t have her licence on her and we took my car downtown to walk, which was still about a mile away}.

Let’s just say Mrs. HB was not amused with my rational thinking skills.

When I was a kid the only way I’d get to go home early was if I had to be carted off via ambulance for passing out {low blood sugar, $1,800 ambulance ride, my parents thought it was ridiculous and were like, why didn’t the nurse just give you some orange juice? You would have perked right up?} or got hit in the mouth with a badminton racket {it was an accident} and the nurse was convinced I required stitches {I didn’t, the Dr. just put one of those butterfly band-aids on my upper lip and my dad took me back to school}.

So the idea of picking a kid up and hour and a half before school let out was just crackers to me! In fact, the only time I can ever remember picking one of my kids up early at school was when I got a call from the nurse saying The Girl had a really bad nose bleed, and that after 30 minutes they couldn’t get it to stop, and that I needed to pick her up and take her to the Doctor’s office. And I was like…. um, it’s a nose bleed. It will stop. She’s fine.

But they insisted I come get her and so I drove to the school to pick her up and what do you know…. as we pulled into the parking lot of the Dr.’s office office {5 minutes later} her nose stopped bleeding.

So ya. I may not have had to walk 5 miles up a hill in the snow to and from school, but c’mon now, can’t he wait 90 minutes? And Mrs. HB was like NO…. We need to go pick him up. So, under a slight {okay, big} protest, I drove her over there {because I do like her, and really, what else did I have going on?} and we picked up little HB Boy.

And then yesterday Mrs. HB sent me a text…

Well then.

Yada yada yada…. I’m sick. And I’m not sure if buying $8.48 worth of ice cream at 6 am counts as a medical expense, but it should.

~Mavis

P.S. When it comes to kids wanting to be picked up at school early, or you more like Mrs. HB or me? We’d love to know.

Total Spent This Week $8.48

Total Spent in January on Groceries $240.15 {Not even funny!}

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Organic Quinoa, Burt’s Bees Natural Acne Solutions, My Favorite Cinnamon Raisin Bread Recipe and More

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Quote of the Day  “When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” ~ Edmond Mbiaka

Have a WONDERFUL day!

♥ Mavis & Lucy the Snuggle Puggle

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Available Kindle Books I think look interesting…

The prices on Kindle Books can change quickly, so grab them while you can. Don’t have a Kindle? Download the kindle app on your other devices. It’s easy! 🙂

Subscribe and Save Deals

Subscribe and Save prices reflect a 15% discount for ordering 5 or more items in 1 month.

I woke up this morning craving a slice of Shirley’s Cinnamon Raisin Bread. Have you tried this recipe yet? Holy smokes, I can’t wait to make this again. If you do decide to make it though, watch out…. I can down an entire loaf by myself in about 24 hours because it’s so addicting! 😉

Home and Kitchen Deals

Today only Cents of Style has Moto Jeggings for $24.95 + FREE Shipping w/code MOTOSTEAL at checkout.

Add on Items

*These are all Amazon Add-on Items and they will ship with qualifying orders over $25 and are eligible for free shipping on $25 orders with Amazon Prime {or will ship FREE on $35 orders without Prime}. 

Get the Valley Food Storage 1 Month Food Supply: Value Kit for just $139.95 shipped {was $204.95}. I ate this entire kit {supplemented with beans and rice} and the food was great!

Kid’s Stuff

Shop Now at Zaycon Fresh

Zaycon Foods is now taking orders for their upcoming events. Go HERE to find out what is available in your area.

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