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One Hundred Dollars a Month

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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Daily Deals – Lego Skate Park, Honest Tea, Online Deals and More

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Quote of the Day “Every summer has a story.”

Hello Thursday! Well, we all survived yesterday. The house didn’t burn down, Lucy didn’t even notice the fireworks going off outside and cooler weather {80’s} are in the forecast for tomorrow. Yippee! Life is good. 🙂

Have a wonderful Thursday everyone. Peace out.

♥ Mavis

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Available Kindle Books I think look interesting…

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Subscribe and Save Deals

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

Discount Mags is offering a 1 year subscription to Real Simple Magazine for only $6.99 a year when you use code MAVIS at checkout. This deal will expire 7/6/18 at midnight EST.

Home and Kitchen Deals

Amazon is offering a 30 Free trail for Audible. I LOVE audio-books!

Audible Free Trial benefits:

• Get two free audiobooks to start — after 30 days, get 1 book each month for $14.95/month

• Get 30% off the price of additional audiobook purchases

• Cancel anytime. Your books are yours to keep, even if you cancel.

Add on Items

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If you’d like to map out your next few months of garden chores, grab a few Dig For Your Dinner eBooks. That way, you can read about gardening, even when the weather is not nice enough to be outside gardening.

Kid’s Stuff

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Daily Deals – Crock Pot Baked Beans, Online Deals, and My Favorite Cole Slaw Recipe

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Quote of the Day  “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” ~ Roy T. Bennett

Cooling mat for Lucy… Ordered. Dehumidifier for the basement… Ordered. Highly rated oscillating fans… Ordered. Dinner plans for tonight… Homemade Ice Cream. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Summer. Let’s do this! Have a safe 4th everyone, stay cool.

♥ Mavis & Lucy

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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.

Kentucky Fried Chicken Cole Slaw: If you are a sucker for a good coleslaw, this one will hit the spot.

Home and Kitchen Deals

Slow Cooked Boston Baked Beans: I’m not sure a BBQ is a true BBQ unless someone brings baked beans. If you are going to be that someone, these are the beans you should be bringing. Yumm-mmy!

Add on Items

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Get a Free 30-Day Free Trial to Amazon Music Unlimited

Amazon Music Unlimited gives you access to on-demand, ad-free streaming from a catalog of tens of millions of songs!

After your 30 Free Trial, you will be billed $7.99 a month BUT if you try it for 30 days and decide you don’t like it you can simply cancel the subscription. Sounds like a win/win to me. Here are the benefits of Amazon Music Unlimited:

  • Stream over tens of millions of songs ad-free with unlimited skips
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Kid’s Stuff

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Goodbye Cooking Hearth, Hello Wood Stove and Winter Warmth

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When we were looking for a forever home, one of the things that appealed to both the HH and I were the giant cooking hearths on some of the older homes we’d see. If you’ve ever taken a tour of a home built back in the 1700 – 1800’s, then chances are somewhere in the home, there was an enormous cooking hearth.

Cooking hearths are crazy cool in my book. Practical? No. I mean, aside from maybe lighting a fire in the giant 5 foot opening for a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, the cooking hearth would pretty much go unused the other 363 days of the year. Not to mention the fire hazard of having a roaring 3 – 4 wide fire in a home with wood floors and beams just feet away.

So, when we had a chimney fire in the cozy living room off to the side of the kitchen back in April, it was really a blessing in disguise. For starters, the old wood stove was just too large for the fireplace area in the living room. Second, if we were going to try to heat {the majority of} our home with wood during the winter months, having a wood stove in the living room just wasn’t practical, as most of the heat would be towards the front of the house instead of the main living areas {family room, kitchen, dining area}.

So, we decided to take the plunge and order a larger wood stove {a Jotul 500} and have it installed in the more centrally located cooking hearth area. Honestly, I was sad to see the wide open-hearth area go {even if it was pretty much decorative} but the practical person in me knew it was the right decision.

And so, yesterday while it was a whopping 90 degrees outside, 3 guys showed up to clean out the chimneys and install the new stove.

Chimney sweep guy said there was about 3 times as much creosote in the chimney than they usually see, and they had to haul it all out in giant trash bags because it kept filling up the shop vac.

I wonder if Mike Rowe has ever done an episode on chimney sweeps? Because seriously, it is a dirty job.

Goodbye cute little wood stove in the living room. Hello pretty logs.

Goodbye beautiful cooking hearth {and the stuff Pilgrim dreams are made of}. Hello winter heat and sitting around the kitchen table playing board games, writing the blog and family meals.

And {hopefully} lower heating and electric bills, copious pots of tea, dinners cooked in cast iron pots atop the stove, and to the HH making wood fired pizzas and bread rising in the little brick oven.

Winter. We are ready for you. Bring it on!  🙂 🙂 🙂

Have a great Tuesday everyone, stay cool.

~Mavis

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