I found this new site with many truly helpful suggestions and ideas on how to save on the family and household budget. Hey, if a mother of seven can save and have the time to do these same tips, then so can I! We all are needing to stretch our grocery budget, and still find ways to provide nutritious and satisfying meals for our families. To help us busy, budget-conscious moms and others like you to overcome this challenge, Libby’s has launched a FREE online resource. You can log onto http://www.getbacktothetable.com/ which features Cost and Time Saving tips.

Plus you will find:

• A recipe database featuring nutritious and tasty recipes that take just ten minutes to make for under $10 or less to prepare for a family of four.
• Downloadable tools for managing grocery budgets and planning out the week’s meals.
• Expert advice from Hannah Keeley, mother of seven and author or The Total Mom Makeover: The Six Week Plan to Completely Transform Your Home, Health, Family and Life.

Visit the site to learn new tips and be prompted to use the ideas you already know in an encouraging and helpful way.

I’ve previously written about how much I love Alli’s Originals sterling silver jewelry, but it’s been a while and Shannon’s theme for the week inspired me again. It’s been about a year since I first got my necklace and I still love it. Now, it would normally last anyone else for many years, it’s easy to take care of and never would break, but I have the Lil’ Duck, so I’ve replaced it once & got the cutest little gems to trade around on it also and now the second one is missing, somewhere in my house, in the depths of the ducky stash that is a 3 year old’s treasures… so I’m going back to Alli again for a replacement, as I miss being without it (even though as soon as it arrives, the other one will appear…). She also is always adding new products to her line, personalized necklaces are only one part of what she does (for example, pet id tags, key chains, bracelets & more). Plus she is just so sweet .

See other WFMW’s here…

Check out this contest…

Swiffer and Warner Music have teamed up and created a contest called the “Swiffer Break-up Music Video Contest.”

Here’s the best part : The Grand Prize for the contest is $15,000.

Here’s how it works:

Swiffer-lovers can submit a short video to YouTube that demonstrates how they “broke up” with their old cleaning products and now use Swiffer for all their cleaning needs.
If you enter, you receive 10 downloads of “break-up” songs to use in the video (that’s one of the requirements).

The top 10 videos will be posted to YouTube for the general public to cast a vote for their favorite and the video with the most votes wins $15,000.

You can find a complete list of rules, prizes and approved “break-up” songs at the Swiffer brand channel.

Please keep in mind that this contest ends tomorrow, 1/30 so have some fun making your video and you might be a winner!

Government schools are interesting environments into which to send your children. And while I am tempted to rail on and on about their evils, I will focus on area that is important on a basic level: Cleanliness.

Last week I was enjoying the Food & Wine Festival at EPCOT and I was struck by something I never noticed in the bathrooms there. Little placards above each sink with the title, “Hand Washing Tips.” Three simple bullets telling you to wet, wash and rinse. I was dumbfounded by both the fact that now my bathroom sinks are advertising spots and that some people lack the basic hygiene to know how to wash their hands!

Cleanliness is an important part of life that we often overlook. How many times do you wash your hands during the day? When was the last time you really deep cleaned the surfaces in your house? Probably not as much as you should, (unless you are lucky and have a maid).

When it comes to the government schools, the majority of children that attend them every day probably are not thinking about the disgusting germs everywhere as much as the cute girl that just started or how to cram for the latest pop quiz the teacher is going to give today. However, due to some diligence by Clorox this should be a bit easier of a job with their “Clean Up The Classroom” campaign. Read more