The Basics: Why Budget?

Analyzing financial data

By Helena Gray, a Homemaking Cottage writer You know how life works; in order to get where you want to go you have to have a plan. This principle of course, also applies to your personal/family finances. And just like other plans in your life, your financial plan should have two steps: long-term and short [...]

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Creative Expense Cutting

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By Helena Gray, writer for Homemaking Cottage & Co. Once you have determined that you would like to reduce some of your expenses, whether just to make ends meet or to start a savings account, or to get serious about becoming debt-free, you have to decide what expenses to cut. The amount of cutting will [...]

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Blessing the Lives of Others Through Home Business

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By Shiloah Baker Everyone has a talent of some kind. Sharing your talents to bless the lives of others is service. Making money with our talents is a blessing not only for our family’s income, but for the people who purchase your wares, ideas, or in other ways benefit from your talents. Many people do [...]

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Two Fun FHE Treats

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Homemade Cotton Candy Recipe Rainbow Popcorn 1 can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk 1 small box cherry gelatin (or favorite flavor) 12 cups unseasoned or lightly salted popcorn Directions Combine Eagle Brand and dry gelatin. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until slightly thickened, about 3 to 4 minutes. Pour Eagle Brand mixture over popcorn; [...]

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Family Night in Minutes

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family night in minutes, last minute, family home evening ideas, fhe ideas, fhe, family home evening

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Lavender Salt

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Lavender salt is easy to make and can be used in many ways. Ingredients: 1 cup Epsom salt 1/2 cup dried lavender flowers 10 drops lavender essential oil Directions: Mix ingredients together in a metal bowl. Store in a mason jar and label as desired. Uses for Lavender Salt: Use in sachets for closets or [...]

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Economy Home Décor

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By Shiloah Baker You can decorate your home on any income and in any economy without breaking the budget, or even bending it. You can decorate rich on a shoestring. Sadly, all the marketing techniques, commercials, and media make everyone feel that when they want or need home furnishings or décor it is expensive, should [...]

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Repurposing Projects Made Easy

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It is fulfilling to the soul to create something new and beautiful out of an old or ordinary object. This is one of the reasons I love to “repurpose” old things. We do a lot of repurposing projects in our home from old shutters, old windows, picture frames, and sewing projects to painting projects galore

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Two Challenges for the Family Home

Two Challenges of the Family Home

By Shiloah Baker Shiloah Baker is a mom of seven, pregnant with #8, married to the man she’s madly in love with. Exercise is her vice. She runs a The Homemaking Cottage and homeschools. In her spare time she sews, crafts, writes and reads. Join us at The Homemaking Cottage Deluxe Edition for 897 ways [...]

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Remember Homemaking Skills

By: Shiloah Baker In Proverbs 31:10–31, we read, “Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.” In those verses we are told that a virtuous woman weaves fabric, sells linen—her hands are not idle: “She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.” [...]

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