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The Frugal Homemaker

Your guide to turning your house into a home... one DIY project and yard sale find at a time

Friday Frugal Finds: pillows, napkin rings, and more décor (+ link-up party!)

August 2, 2013

Happy Friday!  Which means it is time for Friday Frugal Finds again!  I found a couple things last week I wanted to share with you. Picked up these napkin rings – 6 white ceramic ones for $1.00 and 4 metal ones for $1.00.  I plan to spray paint the gold ones some fun color. At […]

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How to set a pretty table with yard sale finds (tablescape for less than $5.00!)

July 8, 2013

I think you know by now that I love to set a pretty table.   I have been setting our kitchen table with placemats and a simple centerpiece ever since we first got married 10 years ago.  Started out with a small table that would only seat two and I had a couple sets of two […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: games, pillows, and Tupperware + link up YOUR finds!

June 7, 2013

Here’s my frugal finds from last week.  First up Value Village finds. I found these games (I buy them to give as gifts as well as buy games for us when I find one we don’t have.) The Scattergories game by itself was $1.81 and the Scattergories game that was bundled with another game was […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: NEW Target linens at Value Village + link up YOUR Frugal Finds!

May 24, 2013

(I announced the winner of the $25 gift card on the Rafflecopter widget on this post.) I always am a little jealous when I see people posting about some great Target clearance find that they picked up at Goodwill.   My friend Molly has found some great Target clearance finds at her Goodwill stores in […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: planters, accent lights and more

April 26, 2013

(The winner of the $25 American Express gift card has been chosen by random.org.  If your name is Carolyn, you are the lucky one!) It is a beautiful day for yard saling here in GA!  Have you seen or shopped any yard sales? Last weekend, I stopped at the parking lot yard sale and picked […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: dresses and baskets

April 19, 2013

Back with another entry in my Friday Frugal Finds series where I share some yard sale, thrift store, or clearance finds with you. I stopped in Value Village this week and was so glad I did!  I found some great stuff!  And I have 1/2 price day to look forward to there this week. First […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: $2 mirror, kids toys, 25¢ bins and more

August 31, 2012

I’m back with another Friday Frugal finds post.  Here is what I found at thrift stores and yard sale this week. I stopped in my Value Village store and found this old Playskool toy bench for $2.02  I love the old, wood, classic kids toys and this will be fun for my nephew to play […]

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A tour of one of my favorite thrift stores–Value Village

August 27, 2012

When I first started showing you all the things I was finding at Value Village, many of you commented that you had never heard of them.  First Value Village is a nationwide company.  In some states they are called Savers.  They work with the American Kidney Foundation (or at least my store does.) So for […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: $3 mirror, 25¢ placemats, $3 wall décor, and much more!

July 20, 2012

Lots of finds to share with you this week!   Some from yard sales and some from thrift stores.  So here goes! I stopped in quickly at Value Village with my nephew and found some good finds. Balderdash game – 60¢ Taboo game – $1.91 Scarf – 49¢ Then on Saturday I headed out yard […]

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Friday Fun + Frugal Finds: winter clothes + lots of Flea market home décor finds!

March 2, 2012

Every Friday I share either something fun we have done that week or some frugal finds that I found the week before.  (You can see all of my previous yard sale and thrift store finds here.) I stopped in Value Village last week and found some fun winter clothes (just in time for it to […]

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Hi!  My name is Christina . . .

I love doing simple, frugal things to make our house feel like HOME! Come learn along with me how to have a beautiful home on a budget.

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