Liss' Frugal Living Blogs

What an incredibly long week! I hadn't realized how quickly clutter had accumulated in our closets over the spring/summer. I spent an entire day pulling everything out of the closets in our home, evaluating it with my required de-cluttering questions:

• Do I need it?
• Do I want it? (If I answer Yes, I ask myself, Have I used it in the last

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Well, I WAS trying to get the lawn mowed today, the garden weeded and the shrubs trimmed. Apparently the gods have other plans, because EVERY time I manage to get my lawnmower to run and start to mow, a storm blows in and unleashes holy hell on the property.

I mowed for a bit anyway, in the pouring rain with lightening ...

The other day I found myself frustrated beyond belief at a multitude of various circumstances which, at the time, I believed to be out of my control:

1. Lightening Damage- burst pipes, destroyed tree that must be cut down and removed, fried appliances, service repair appointments, etc
2. Family- In the years that I've

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Last week I shared my latest frugal flop, the carrot and cream cheese lava cake. Now, in the meantime, my little chickies were growing fast and are ready to go outside into the big bad world of foxes, runaway doggies, snakes, hawks and possums.
Out of the 14 chicks we had in the last batch, only 3 are surviving. The rest have been ...

Following my latest lava cake debauchery, I read a post by a fairly new member requesting carrot and cream cheese lava cake. Having never actually tasted one of these, but yearning too since I read the post, I decided to attempt making one.

I simply prepared my favorite carrot cake recipe & set the batter aside. Next I combined 4 ...