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Everyone loves to save money! Join others to find and share ideas on how to save for a rainy day, create presents, find neat projects for your kids to do, cut your shopping bill in half, recycle and reuse, and much more. 

Your Community Leader: cl-busywith5kids (what's a CL?)

 
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Garden Party celebrates a veggie each month, and this month, it’s all about BROCCOLI! Join Jennie Garth each week as she takes us from plant to plate and gives us plenty of reasons to love our veggies!
 
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Frugal Roundtable & Intros
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Member Icon A bit of good news carolwood 2 new  6:38 pm 
Member Icon February Goals cl-busywith5kids 20 new  10:11 am 
Re-intro! jills5555 4 new  Feb-8 
Member Icon wwyd unexpected check showed up skeenum 9 new  Feb-8 
Member Icon Woodmans Market to move in my area  carolwood 6 new  Feb-7 
Member Icon I guess lay off comes on Feb 12th carolwood 6 new  Feb-6 
Will you be frugal today? cl-busywith5kids 15 new  Feb-6 
Member Icon Census needs temp workers carolwood 7 new  Feb-4 
Member Icon iVillage Survey cmjenas 1 new  Feb-3 
Member Icon Will you watch the Super Bowl? this is a poll cl-busywith5kids 1 new  Feb-3 
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Money & Budget Concerns
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Member Icon ? about taxes some new thing I was told carolwood 6 new  3:24 pm 
Member Icon coupons? iowa_mommy2009 12 new  Feb-6 
Member Icon America's Biggest Rip-offs cmjenas 3 new  Feb-5 
cost of laundry/dishes vs. paper?? iowa_mommy2009 9 new  Feb-5 
I'm tired of dealing with everyone else. chellenlarry 4 new  Jan-31 
should i save it or not? jhbear419 8 new  Jan-31 
thoughts on selling/ moving lisanmichael 7 new  Jan-30 
Member Icon How I will make the most of Feb paydays carolwood 3 new  Jan-30 
Wii Fit or Exercise Bike? hltrow811 9 new  Jan-29 
Member Icon Refinance/Remodel/Savings questions graycygnet 5 new  Jan-28 
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Frugal Victories & Flops
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Member Icon Free meat today carolwood 5 new  2:36 am 
Member Icon LOL!! monkeesmom 4 new  Feb-8 
Member Icon Frugal Victory! Supercute clothes! goddess_dynasty 4 new  Feb-7 
walmart victory jumpingbeansmom 2 new  Feb-6 
glasses for 0 dollar but one unhappy boy chellenlarry 7 new  Feb-4 
just a small victory/flop all in one jumpingbeansmom 2 new  Feb-1 
Member Icon DS keeps getting holes in his sneakers! donnasw 8 new  Jan-31 
breakfast sausage victory jumpingbeansmom 4 new  Jan-27 
Member Icon There went my small er fund jesskell 15 new  Jan-26 
grocery store victory jumpingbeansmom 2 new  Jan-24 
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Food & Cooking
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Member Icon Menus--week of 2/7 cl-busywith5kids 11 new  5:58 am 
Member Icon Are you planning a superbowl menu carolwood 4 new  Feb-7 
Member Icon Does using mixes still = "homemade?" cmjenas 8 new  Feb-6 
Left over bread - any ideas? jennebryan 5 new  Feb-6 
menus for week 1/31 jumpingbeansmom 10 new  Feb-3 
Member Icon My Jan 30th-March 13th menues carolwood 4 new  Feb-1 
If it's not on sale, don't buy it???? mamak2002 25 new  Jan-31 
Member Icon Menus--week of 1/24 cl-busywith5kids 8 new  Jan-25 
menu for this week 1/17 jumpingbeansmom 11 new  Jan-19 
Member Icon Doing a major soup cook today to freeze carolwood 3 new  Jan-17 
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Thrifty Cookbook
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Taco soup jills5555 1 new  Feb-8 
Member Icon The Best Soups cmjenas 1 new  Jan-14 
Member Icon Tons of crock pot recipes carolwood 4  Dec-18 
How to freeze sweet peppers? myebay75 4  Nov-24 
Member Icon Oodles of Noodles Soup cl-busywith5kids 4  Nov-15 
Member Icon Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins cl-busywith5kids 6  Nov-2 
Member Icon Left Over London Broil recipies? njmomofone 4  Oct-16 
Zuccihni recieps NEEDED erinmom2005 16  Sep-18 
Chicken n dumplings flamingsock 6  Sep-9 
Member Icon Leftover black bean and rice casserole carolwood 1  Sep-9 
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Around the House
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Member Icon Green Cleaners? cmjenas 6 new  Feb-1 
Member Icon Decluttering & kids' books cl-busywith5kids 13 new  Jan-28 
finally got around to some sewing jumpingbeansmom 3 new  Jan-26 
Member Icon QOTW.....Linens & such..... cl-busywith5kids 17 new  Jan-23 
Member Icon Another Walgreens story cl-busywith5kids 4 new  Jan-17 
Member Icon I'm Kelly and I'm a Walgreens addict! cl-busywith5kids 15  Jan-11 
Homemade Laundry soap slavila 11  Jan-9 
Member Icon Great way to clean snow off your car cheaptrickfan 4  Dec-28 
Member Icon How do you keep your house clean?? mommy2b07 18  Dec-17 
any ideas to use crayons? magentabluegoddess 3  Dec-14 
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Parenting
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Glasses pics and update contains an attachment chellenlarry 7 new  Feb-7 
Member Icon Moms as Sole Breadwinners Reach High cmjenas 7 new  Feb-3 
Blisters from viral infection? chellenlarry 7 new  Feb-3 
Feeding your kids?? imlaura72 23 new  Jan-31 
Seriously no one can think this is ok chellenlarry 41 new  Jan-22 
Member Icon ? for those who have held a child back ragerboyz 12 new  Jan-19 
Miss Lily's Allergy testing results chellenlarry 5 new  Jan-16 
Member Icon Karate classes for 8 yr old boy? donnasw 14 new  Jan-12 
Member Icon Everything has to be a big fun party! donnasw 7 new  Jan-12 
Member Icon She got the job!!!! cl-busywith5kids 5  Jan-12 
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OT Conversation Corner
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Have job interview next month skeenum 2 new  Feb-1 
very unexpected call = job interview mom-babyblues2005 4 new  Jan-31 
Member Icon Honda CRV monkeesmom 23 new  Jan-28 
Member Icon H1N1 Dose 2? cmjenas 8 new  Jan-27 
gymboree teacher mom-babyblues2005 3  Jan-12 
Worst Valentine's Day Gift? cmjenas 3  Jan-7 
What was the temperature this morning? this is a poll cl-busywith5kids 11  Jan-5 
We were in the Nutcracker Ballet e13lorena 3  Dec-30 
Member Icon How much snow do you have? kathy_s14255 8  Dec-28 
Member Icon How hard is it to send out a email arrgg carolwood 6  Dec-22 
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Explore iVillage
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Member Icon What are you willing to splurge on?  cmjenas 2 new of 14  Feb-2 
Member Icon Calling all eBay & Etsy sellers! cmjenas 1  Jan-12 
Join us for Meatless Monday! cmkellie 1  Jan-4 
Member Icon Holiday Gifts From The Heart cl-karlimarie 1  Dec-6 
Member Icon Do you dare to lick it? cl-tulip4u2002 1  Nov-10 
Member Icon Is the woman in the mirror a stranger??  cl-weberdns0 1  Nov-6 
Member Icon Calling All Christian Families cl-chickofgrace 1  Nov-2 
Member Icon CHAOS? Clutter? Click here! cl-cake17uk 1  Sep-24 
Member Icon Was TTC spelled Dr’s Appt for you? cl-redcows 1  Sep-9 
Member Icon Over 35 with young kids??? cl-chris_mommy2zach 1  Sep-2 
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