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Welcome to our Home Management page. Enjoy tips and tutorials on a variety of topics, including organizing your home, cleaning and motivating kids to do chores, reducing clutter, creating a budget, and more. This list highlights our most popular posts, or scroll down for the most recent tips.
Money and Finances: How to Live on a Budget
It is important to be conscious of your lifestyle and spending when you are on a budget. Unless you are one of the Real Housewives of the Universe, you have to be practical in your spending choices. How to Live on a Budget Regularly ask yourself, "Is it totally…
Creating Emergency Travel Kits for Your Family
Natural disasters and other emergencies can strike at any moment, even while enjoying a fun family vacation. These emergency travel kits are simple to put together and can give you a little peace of mind while you're away from home. I like to think of it as insurance...you probably won't…
Recipe: Easy and Inexpensive Homemade Hummus
I don't have time to be uber-frugal and make everything from scratch, and I don't have the funds to go wild on convenience food purchases. So I tend to do the math, multiply the dollars and cents to decide which of our favorite dishes are best made cooking from…
Bug Off: How to Repel Insects With DIY Recipes
The 4th of July is so much fun—celebrating with friends and family, watching the fireworks, and other enjoying other outdoor festivities like a picnics and barbecues. There's only one potential downside: those pesky insects. Whether it's keeping insects away from your loved ones or from your roses... here are…
How to Make Summer Chores Fun
I don't know about you but I've redesigned our chore chart more times than I can count. This summer, I've finally found an easy way to mix up our regular chore chart and get the kids motivated to help around the house. We've snuck in a few extra chores and…