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Archives for January 2014

Saving for a Vacation: Establish a Vacation-Specific Savings Account & Other Tips

January 24, 2014 By Guest Poster Leave a Comment

Saving for a Vacation: Establish a Vacation-Specific Savings Account & Other Tips

Post is sponsored by M&T Bank. Getting away on a vacation is an important thing for a lot of people. But, with a slow economy and many struggling financially, it often gets pushed to the bottom of the priority list. However, with some careful planning and smart saving, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Budgeting Advice, SimplySaving Tagged With: bank savings accounts, savings, Savings accounts

Take Along Super Bowl Foods

January 20, 2014 By Beth 15 Comments

Take Along Super Bowl Foods

This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group™ and Rubbermaid and Sharpie but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #RubbermaidSharpie  http://cmp.ly/3/8vNxcO While we love hosting parties, we also love going to a party and taking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Food Tagged With: food, Rubbermaid, Sharpie, take along, trifle, veggie tray

New Gym Equipment from Capri Sun Big Pouch and TerraCycle

January 15, 2014 By Beth 20 Comments

New Gym Equipment from Capri Sun Big Pouch and TerraCycle

I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community.  This project has been sponsored by Capri Sun Big Pouch and Collective Bias.  All thoughts and opinions are my own. A couple of months ago, we posted about starting up a TerraCycle brigade to collect Capri … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kids, Promotional, Simply Family Tagged With: #Cbias, capri sun, charity, donation, gym, p.e., pe, physical education, public school, school, Social Fabric, terracycle

Kitchen Gadget Deals

January 15, 2014 By Beth Leave a Comment

Kitchen Gadget Deals

We are excited to share a couple of Shopping Guides. If you love to shop from home for a bargain like, I do maybe you will love these lists too. Watch for more and posts on our Amazon buys! This is a great list for shopping ahead for a kitchen/cooking lover in your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deals, SimplySaving Tagged With: Amazon, deals, gift idea, kitchen, kitchen gadget

Valentine’s Peanut Butter and Jelly Heart Cookies

January 14, 2014 By Beth 23 Comments

Valentine’s Peanut Butter and Jelly Heart Cookies

I am excited to share a Sophie inspired recipe here. We were waiting for bath fizzies to dry. Sophie had my attention as Grace and Matthew were off playing. She begged for cookies. hmmm. I didn't want to dig a lot out so I decided to go easy and make the three ingredient peanut … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: cookies, peanut butter, recipe, Valentine's, valentines day

Valentine’s Boy Gift Ideas

January 14, 2014 By Beth Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Boy Gift Ideas

We are excited to share a couple of Shopping Guides. If you love to shop from home for a bargain like, I do maybe you will love these lists too. Watch for more and posts on our Amazon buys! This is a great list for little boys for Valentine's Day that aren't candy!! Pete … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deals, SimplySaving Tagged With: Amazon, deals, shopping, Valentine's, valentines day

Valentine’s Girl Gift Ideas

January 13, 2014 By Beth Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Girl Gift Ideas

We are excited to share a couple of Shopping Guides. If you love to shop from home for a bargain like, I do maybe you will love these lists too. Watch for more and posts on our Amazon buys! Webkinz Plush Stuffed Animal Love Monkey, valentine $5.98 Comes with activation code … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deals, SimplySaving Tagged With: Amazon, deals, shopping, Valentine's, valentines day

Valentine’s Thin Mint Crackers

January 9, 2014 By Beth 23 Comments

Valentine’s Thin Mint Crackers

A friend mentioned making Thin Mints on Facebook back in December. Having two little Girl Scouts in the house (and as of today 30 cases of Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies), I was intrigued. We made these in December with Christmas colors. My dad even loved them (minus the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: baking, cookies, cooking, kids, recipe, sweets, Valentine's, valentines day

Valentine’s Bath Fizzies

January 8, 2014 By Beth 23 Comments

Valentine’s Bath Fizzies

Do you love bath fizzies or bath bombs? Our kids LOVE them but they are expensive. I was super excited to get a few at the MIXED Conference from the Dixie Crystals folks. They called them Sugar Bath Bombs. That name doesn't go over well with my kids. If you have been following my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Family, Simply Life Tagged With: bath bombs, bath fizzies, crafts, Dixie Crystals, family, homemade, kids

Saving on Your Shopping Budget

January 8, 2014 By Beth 18 Comments

Saving on Your Shopping Budget

We are excited to help you save during this year. We are going to try to feature a few printables here at Simply Budgeted and would love your feedback on them! The first three are a Budget Shopping List, a Weekly Meal Plan Shopping List, and a Sale & Coupon Shopping … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Budgeting Advice, Simply Food, SimplySaving Tagged With: coupon, couponing, grocery shopping, meal plan, meal planning, shopping, shopping list

Valentine’s Hershey Kiss Roses

January 7, 2014 By Beth 2 Comments

Valentine’s Hershey Kiss Roses

There are a few crafts I remember making as a kid and Hershey Kiss Roses for Valentine's Day is one of the crafts I remember. I did adjust this slightly based on the supplies I could find at our Walmart. I will list out the modifications I made off the original craft I remember … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Fun Tagged With: chocolate, craft, crafts, family, Hershey, kids, kiss roses, valentines day

Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014

January 2, 2014 By Beth 1 Comment

Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014

I am not going to write about our top ten posts or even write about what all we did here on the blog this year. I am going to write about ... ready for it ... our life! This year we said goodbye to two major things in our life ... Sippy Cups  AND Booster Seats We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Life Tagged With: 2013, 2014, family, life, new year

Kale Stuffed Pork Shoulder for New Year’s

January 1, 2014 By Brian 1 Comment

Kale Stuffed Pork Shoulder for New Year’s

Normally, we don't do very much for dinner on New Year's.  I usually make my Hoppin' John (you can find that recipe over on This Cookin' Dad) and we might go out to Beth's parents so that Beth can have the pork and sauerkraut that her mom makes every year.  I've long since given … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: cooking, food, kale, kale stuffed pork shoulder, pork, pork shoulder, recipe, stuffed pork, stuffed pork shoulder

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