Life Skills Blog

March 31st, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: Bank, Bankrate, Frugal, Home, Interest rate, Money, No Spend, No spend Month, No spend weekend, Personal Finance, saving, Spa treatments, tips 

Hey there!
Did March go as quickly for you as it did for our household?  I am so very ready for Spring here in the beautiful Pac NW.  I can think of a lot of Frugal ways to save water, but what about the amount we get naturally!!???  Yikes!!
I wanted to pass along some great tips [...]

March 31st, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: Bankrate, Budget, Debt, Expense, Home, Income, Money, Money Management, Personal Finance, Snowball effect 

A Little Effort Goes a Long Way
There’s nothing more we want than to be able to easily and efficiently manage our money.  After all, the money that we want to manage is money that is oftentimes, diligently worked for on our part.
This is the reasoning behind

March 27th, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: Cooking, emotional, Emotional Health, Home, Mindless Eating, plate size, satisfy your hunger, Shopping 

Here is the latest Newsletter tip from “Shrink Yourself”.
Financial, Relationship, Family Stress can cause overeating. Shrink Yourself can help you today.
Tip of the Week: Plate Size Can Affect Your Weight
Have you noticed that the plates in restaurants are getting bigger and bigger? Well, the size of your plate can actually affect

March 25th, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: Eating, Emotion, feeling guilty, Health, Home, Hunger, Overeating, Poverty 

We are born learning to gain comfort from the food our mothers gave to us.  Food is something that we have to be honest about.  We analyze the “why” we do something, but unless we are true to our own feelings,

March 23rd, 2009 | by Lynn | Tags: Economics, Home, Homemaking, Ingenuity, Money, Tip Hero, TipNut, tips 

I just love money saving tips.  I love time saving tips!
Two of my favorite sites for tips– any kind you can imagine– are Tip Hero and Tip Nut.
I know we all have our comfort levels and we are not always game to try each neat idea or tip.  I find the ingenuity of