OREO Cookie Balls and The Big Game

Have I mentioned how much I love football season? I may loose the attention of my husband a few hours a day a couple days a week. But when I can sit next to him and watch too, eat a bunch of good food and hear my little ones cheating on usually the wrong team! […]

Children’s Art & Homework Station – How To Display Their “art”

This post is sponsored by Blueprint Social and it’s partner Brother Label Maker. All Opinions are 100% my own. Also, enter their fun giveaway for a new label maker. Supplies:   Rolling Drawer Cart   Brother P-Touch Label Maker   Binder   Page Protectors Did you know that January is National Organization month? I love that I […]

FREE Skylanders Valentine Printable – Candy Bar Wrapper

Your kids can be a hit with their friends when they hand out these mini candy bars wrapped in a fun Skylanders Valentine Card! Oh man, if only I could explain to you the obsession my son has with Skylanders right now. Every day when he gets off the bus it’s like a mad dash […]

Winter Themed Bunco Printables

Well apparently it takes someone emailing me to get my butt in gear. I’ve had these printables done and ready to go for almost a month now, but completely forgot to put them on the site for you all to download. So here I am, now, finally, putting them up. You can all thank Jen […]

Beautiful, Easy & Quick Mom Hairstyles

Sometimes the LAST thing I want to do is make my hair presentable for the day. Seriously, after getting 2 kids ready for the day, cleaning up a house, making food and working on the blog I just want to pull my hair into a high messy bun and call it a day. But in […]

How to organize Legos

I don’t think there’s any better feeling as a mom than watching your kids use their imagination. They can do that playing dress up, creating music, or building new and unrecognizable things. Watching my two kids play either together or just by themselves is such a blessing. Knowing that they, for a short time each […]

Valentine Pencil Toppers

Today I am sharing a fun and super cheap valentine printable for your kids to hand out to their friends this year for V-day.  All you’ll need is: You’re pretty “tweet” valentine printable cardstock printer paper cutter valentine’s themed pencils washi tape You can download and save the valentine right to your computer so that you can access […]

52 Week Savings Challenge

This year I am starting out with a challenge to my whole family to save as much money as possible this year. Ya wanna know something sad? My husband and I never had a savings account until a year ago. We had always been spenders and if it was in the bank account, it would […]

The Most Tasty Healthy Snack Ideas

With the new year, I’m sure that 99% of us are going to make the “eat healthier” resolution. So today I thought I would help us all keep that resolution with a few healthy snack ideas. Because snacking is where I usually eat all my sugary goodness. And not only will you love them, but […]

2014 Top Ten Posts

I can’t believe this year is coming to a close. I’m proud to look back and see all the growth that Our Thrifty Ideas has made over the last year, and some of the most successful blog posts have come from this year. So I thought it would be fun to do another year end […]