I have started a series of Frugal Christmas posts about personalized Christmas gift tags, being on the lookout for that “perfect” chocolate chip cookies recipe so I can bake these as as gifts and handmade paper stockings as tree ornaments.
I hope to feature more of the things/ideas that I want to do.
To further perk me [...]
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For another Frugal Christmas post, I present “Handmade Paper Stocking Tree Ornament”.
Here is my post about Personalized Christmas Gift Tags.
My two younger children did these, two for each of them. When we were looking at these ornaments when we hung these, I thought the paper stockings look old-fashioned when put side by side to newer [...]
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Christmas means different things to different people.
For children, it means getting gifts: new toys, new gadgets, new clothes and sometimes even cash.
For adults, Christmas means clearing up the social calendar as early as possible to be able to say “yes” to the different parties which mean socializing with friends, eating a lot of scrumptious and [...]
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The norm in most homes in the urban places here in the Philippines is to have a maid or a house helper.
We don’t have one. We have been without a maid for what, five years now, almost six years.
People ask me always, how do we cope?
It takes a lot of time management to be able [...]
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