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By Marilyn Moll, on March 29th, 2008
Ed Note: The below comment was originally posted to my blog by Jill Ferris. There is a great deal of wisdom here. Read on.
Many years ago when I was worrying about how to eat healthily on a very very limited budget I met a young mother who was raised [...]
By Marilyn Moll, on March 29th, 2008
Sometimes tremendous savings in the food budget can be made by cooking from scratch, compared to using pre-packaged, pre-processed convenience foods. In some cases, though, you may need to invest in suitable equipment such as bread baking equipment, quality stainless steel cookware and bakeware, water purification product, etc.
Duromatic pressure pans by Kuhn Rikon are [...]
By Marilyn Moll, on March 27th, 2008
I just found out two of my favorite and most talented authors, Martha Green and Rebekah Wilson, authors of The Treasury of Homekeeping Skills and The Hope Chest and Grandmother’s Hope Chest books respectively, have a vision to train woman in many useful homemaking skills that you probably weren’t taught by your mother growing [...]
By Marilyn Moll, on March 26th, 2008
A delightful, beautiful, talented 13 year old homeschooled girl died in our town on Easter Sunday. You see, she was at her voice lesson last week and was fine.
By Wednesday she came down with some sniffles and cold symptoms most likely caught from her brothers.
By Saturday, her mom took her to the ER, [...]
By Marilyn Moll, on March 20th, 2008
Last week I talked about the best way to address emerging contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, in drinking water.
Many people wrote to me asking me to clarify what the benefit of an R/O (Reverse Osmosis) Drinking Water System is, and how they can know which type of system is best for their family.
Today, I want to [...]
By Marilyn Moll, on March 19th, 2008
If you listen or read news headlines in the last few weeks, you have been hearing all about higher food prices, sharply higher gas prices, mortgage banking crises, wheat shortages, economic woes and so forth.
Many of you are familiar with Living On A Dime and with Tawra and Jill’s money saving, get-out-of-debt, frugal living and [...]
By Marilyn Moll, on March 17th, 2008
Who in the world knows what’s best for my baby?’ You do!” says Dr. Leila Denmark. Dr. Denmark is a well-known pediatrician, who is considered the longest practicing pediatrician, who cared for thousands of children for 75 years! That is right she retired in her 90’s, and just celebrated for 110 birthday [...]
By Marilyn Moll, on March 17th, 2008
Remember the children’s nursery rhyme that goes as follows?
Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!
One a penny two a penny – Hot cross buns
If you have no daughters, give them to your sons
One a penny two a penny – Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns were sold in the street to the cry of “Hot cross buns!” [...]
By Marilyn Moll, on March 13th, 2008
My family and I traditionally observe St. Patrick’s Day with traditional Irish food.
Having read biographies of St Patrick with my children when they were younger, I wish there was more known about the man. We know that he was the son of a Roman nobleman, and he was born in Scotland. He was kidnapped from [...]
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