Thanksgiving is next week already, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to kick it into the high-stress, high-gear, faster-than-the-speed-of-life mentality to start off the holiday season! It can be easy to get wrapped up in making the preparations – so wrapped up, in fact, that you ignore the people who are there to see you, not just eat your food!

Halloween calls for celebration and decoration, and we’ve got plenty for you and your kids to do! Spooky up your homeschool curriculum with the free Halloween lesson plans and worksheets below. Turn your house into a haunted house with the many fun Halloween kids’ crafts and decorations projects (they’re fun for adults too – you’ll see!). Even cut loose with free Halloween coloring pages for the kiddies or for your Halloween party’s coloring contest.

Many different foods can become spooky by simply renaming them or changing the way you present them. Here are some scary Halloween foods that have been hits around here over the years.

We’ve been closed for the Labor Day holiday weekend and will be back to our regular publishing schedule tomorrow. We hope you had a wonderful and safe holiday!

It’s not likely that you haven’t yet heard about Michael Jackson’s death last week. Here is information about the Michael Jackson tribute that will be taking place Tuesday, July 7, 2009.

While your family is boasting over 4th of July parades, bonfires and fireworks, you might be silently praying that they’ll all agree to go somewhere public rather than invite over your friends and family on the 4th. Holiday housekeeping is the easiest cleaning you’ll ever do because you don’t have to do all of it!

Easter brunch, Easter egg hunts and fun Easter baskets don’t have to cost a fortune. Frugal Easter celebrations are an art, and you’ll get better and better at keeping the costs down without losing the magic each year.

We’ve been getting a lot of questions from readers about free photos with the Easter bunny at Walmart this year. 
This sign appeared in my local Walmart in Fairbanks, Alaska a few days ago about free pictures with the Easter bunny.
In my local store, it looks like there will be an Easter egg hunt and [...]

How about throwing a date night at home? It is one of the most frugal things that you can do this year to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

With Valentine’s Day less than two weeks away, the options for Valentine gifts are showing up everywhere.  Flowers, candy, stuffed animals, jewelry.  It’s all nice, but none of those gifts are very original.  It looked like the Valentine’s Day loot was going to be the same as last year…
Or so we thought!  In our search [...]