Book Reviews

Do You Have More Time Than You Think?

by Michelle June 18, 2011

I recently read 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam. To be brutally honest, while I was reading the book, I was not overly impressed.  I thought she went off topic quite a bit, writing many pages on how to get a job you like and some other topics (useful, [...]

Review: Free Stuff Everyday Guide

by Christina Brown June 4, 2011

I remember one of the first freebies I ever requested:  A Louisville Slugger baseball pen.   I was just a kid, and I’d found the offer in a book called “Free Stuff for Kids” that I checked out of the library.  I sent out dozens of requests for things, but that’s the only one I remember [...]

Review: The Money Class by Suze Orman

by Christina Brown May 12, 2011

I’ve watched more episodes of The Suze Orman Show than I can count.  I’ve read most of her books and spend time visiting the forums on Money Minded Moms.  I even got the opportunity to talk with Suze Orman on the phone. And despite all of that, she still finds a way to surprise me [...]

Review: How to Have Your Cake & Eat It, Too

by Christina Brown May 6, 2011

Pick up a women’s magazine or visit a mom blog and the chances are pretty good you’ll find an article about balancing work and family. When I became a stay-at-home mom, I was desperate to find something I was passionate about outside of parenting. It was important to me to have something in my life [...]

Review: Home Ec 101 – Skills for Everyday Living

by Christina Brown March 27, 2011

When I first started reading Heather Solos’ new book Home-Ec 101: Skills for Everyday Living , I was a little worried. With so much information packed into its pages, I worried that this book was going to be a rehash of all the things I already knew about running a household. But then I realized, [...]

Review: More Make It Fast, Cook It Slow

by Christina Brown January 7, 2011

The slow cooker is one of my most treasured kitchen items.  It is how I survive the chaos of living with three adorable, but very busy boys. A few years ago, I discovered Stephanie O’Dea’s blog A Year of Slow Cooking.  O’Dea pledged to make something in her slow cooker every day for an entire [...]

Book Review: How to Shop For Free

by Christina Brown December 19, 2010

I’ve gotten a bit lazy when it comes to couponing.  I wasn’t keeping up on clipping coupons or organizing them or even putting the coupon inserts in their files. Sometimes I’d forget my coupon binder in the car (or worse yet, at home) and not bother to retrieve it. It’s not that I didn’t care.  [...]

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