Years ago I took a two week vacation in the Smokey Mountains for free. It was awesome. We were just a few minutes drive from the National and state parks, a half hour from Gatlinburg and forty five minutes from a major city. The house was tucked away down a back road without a neighbor [...]
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I made homemade coleslaw yesterday and didn’t have enough mayonnaise to make the sauce. “No problem”, I thought to myself. I will just whip up some homemade mayo. I’m a pretty good cook and like to make things myself. I can control the ingredients that go into it and do away with some of the [...]
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It’s the new year and while it is not one of my New Years Resolutions to lose weight, I am continuing my efforts to lose a pound or ten. I have been struggling with the grocery budget as well as trying to keep it healthy and lo cal. I have been following Amelia’s progress on [...]
Health care reform is a subject that is near and dear to my heart because I am one of the millions of uninsured people in the US. Unless you are employed in a full time job with a decent salary, you just can’t afford health insurance and truthfully, I am also aware that you can’t [...]
I know, I know, there are thousands of people who save hundreds of dollars every month with coupons. Many of them faithfully clip coupons and search for deals, double coupons, etc. I think it’s great but it just doesn’t work for me. I have tried it. I have joined sites that are supposed to show [...]
With the arctic cold blanketing the US and even Florida down in the 30s, the cost of heating your home is probably skyrocketing. I know when I had electric heat, I could go out and see the electric meter spin faster and faster when my furnace turned on. There was no way that I could [...]
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I was reading an article at Fire Finance about the number of people who live without a bank account. Fire Finance was stunned to find that 17 million Americans have no bank accounts. I was not so surprised. Having worked in various situations with low income people, it is common among them not to have [...]
Happy New Year!! It seems that many of our traditions here in the south are marked by food but none more so than the traditional New Year’s dinner. While many holiday dinners are made up of foods to show that we have plenty, the New Year’s meal is made up of foods that are traditionally [...]
Plans for our big family Thanksgiving dinner are well under way. As my daughter tells everyone, Thanksgiving is Mom’s holiday to cook and she is right. There is nothing I enjoy more than cooking turkey, stuffing and all the fixings. Of course, I enjoy the left over turkey just as much. I could eat turkey [...]
When I was growing up, we supplemented our heat with a wood stove. It was smelly, smoky and a very dry heat. I have fond memories of cozening up to the woodstove after coming in from the cold. I have not so fond memories of filling the house with smoke trying to get it started [...]
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