Category Archives: B.B.F.Y.B.

Biggest Bang For Your Buck {Cleaning/Organizing A Bedroom}

I always ask my girls when we go to clean their room what is the “biggest bang for their buck” to which they respond, “MaKinG oUr BeD.”  It’s always the first thing we do when we clean-up their bedroom.  And not only is it the thing that takes the least amount of time, it makes the room look 90%Continue reading “Biggest Bang For Your Buck {Cleaning/Organizing A Bedroom}”

Biggest Bang For Your Buck {Take Stock}

From time to time its good for us to TaKe StOcK of our life.  Where we’ve been and where we’re going.  What has worked and what has failed.  What stays and what goes. I find the end of the year is a good time for this.  January one is synonymous with new BegiNniNgs.  And here is the questionContinue reading “Biggest Bang For Your Buck {Take Stock}”

{Biggest Bang For Your Buck} – Special K Sour Cream & Onion Crackers

Lara and I love SaLtY cHiPs and when it comes to getting the {BigGest BaNg For YoUr BuCk}, we think these guys (Special K Sour Cream and Onion Crackers) pack the biggest “PuNcH”!  If you like salty and “Sour Cream and Onion”, give them a try!! Check out the nutitional information!!  There are a total of 27Continue reading “{Biggest Bang For Your Buck} – Special K Sour Cream & Onion Crackers”

Biggest Bang For Your Buck – Buying Name Brand

Ever find something you really would like to buy, but don’t want to pay full price?  If so, try buying a floor model.  Stores have to move these items from time to time and usually do so at a discount. This TabLe & cHaiRs, rUg and DollhOusE I found at a Potterybarn Kids store.  And best of all, theyContinue reading “Biggest Bang For Your Buck – Buying Name Brand”

BBFYB: Avoiding Skin Cancer & Hearing Loss

With the FuN summer hOlidAy around the corner, get your biggest bang for your buck by packing along your sunscreen and earplugs.  Don’t underestimate the ImpAct of being in the sun for a picnic or surrounded by a few fireworks crackling in your ears. Someone once told me that any noise over 85 decibels causesContinue reading “BBFYB: Avoiding Skin Cancer & Hearing Loss”

Biggest Bang For Your Buck – Adirondack Chairs

Adirondack chairs are really popular these days and it seems like the going rate for these chairs is around $250 a piece.  I really wanted to get two white chairs, but didn’t want to pay $500 so I began looking around.   Here’s what I found: These nice wood chairs were $99 from Home Decorators.  Their website is http://www.homedecorators.com     Continue reading “Biggest Bang For Your Buck – Adirondack Chairs”

Biggest Bang For Your Buck — BE the BARBER

One of my best investments was a $25-$30 haircut kit from Target.  I bought it shortly after my husband and I got married 5 ½ years ago and I’ve cut his hair ever since!  Owning a hair clipper has not only  saved us money, but it also SAVES my husband a lot of TIME ifContinue reading “Biggest Bang For Your Buck — BE the BARBER”

Biggest Bang For Your Buck – Toned Arms

S  u  M  m  e R   is just a month away!  This is what works for me when it comes to toned arms… I’ve never had naturally ToNeD aRmS, but being a farm girl who would spend her summer days bailing hay I would have defined arms at the end of each summer.  After I got a teaching job andContinue reading “Biggest Bang For Your Buck – Toned Arms”