Raising Blessings

I just finished washing my bathroom walls as that is the first room that we are going paint. I learned that the current paint is not very washable. I took off some of the paint while scrubbing and I only used water and borax. I am glad that I decided to buy Sherwin- Williams Duration [...]

One of my goals is to have a tidy and organized house. One area that really needed organizing was the ‘diaper station’ in our bathroom. I just had the cloth diapers, covers and cloth wipes jumbled together in a cardboard box. First of all cardboard next to a wall especially in a moist area is [...]

For the last two months I have been comparing sales and coupons at different stores and now I only spend less than half of my grocery budget at Costco because I am finding such good deals. We are also able to buy more food with our small grocery budget and we are even working towards [...]

JJ and I are fairly good at saving money when it comes to grocery shopping. We have never spent over $200 a month on our food, hygiene and paper products. This is really good considering we only spend around $20 a month eating out. Last week I learned even more about saving money at the [...]

If you want to give your home a free energy audit yourself you can go to thermwise.com  or if you want to have an expert evaluate your home call your utility provider and find out if they offer energy audits. Some providers will conduct the audit for free while other’s charge a small fee. Here in Utah it is $25 through Questar. The audits [...]

There is so much I would like to do our new house like putting a new fence up, painting the walls, HVAC system and a new kitchen. We can afford paint and we could build a fence ourselves but the HVAC and new Kitchen probably wont happen unless we either win a home makeover or somehow obtain [...]

Yesterday we celebrated thanksgiving with JJ’s brother and sister-in-law, they brought the Turkey but forgot to defrost it. The ideal way to thaw turkey is to have it in the refridgerator for two or three days another way is to defrost it in cold water (changing the water every 30 minutes) which takes several hours [...]

I recently recieved a G.broil to review from the George Foreman company. The first thing JJ and I did when we opened the box up was discuss the differences between the G.broil and the older model George Foreman that we received as a wedding gift. Some differences are: It has an on/off switch. The original [...]