Teacher Storage Uses on the Cheap

I am a teacher, and trust me there are many ways that I could spend my money daily at work.  I have become quite resourceful with being cheap at work also.  A few examples are in the pictures.  I rolled up my boarders to store in empty frosting cans.  I use Baby Wipe containers to store pens, markers, pencils, dice, glue sticks, the list goes on and on.  My favorite teacher frugal use is my home made white boards. I bought 15 plastic plates for $3 and use them as white boards!!!!!   They last a long time, I am on year 2 with the same plates!

Facebook Alias

Who Am I?  Sometimes when I log onto Facebook I get mixed up with which account I am using...OOPS.
On my phone I am who I am, but my IPAD I have an Alias. I am Meghan Savings, because...well I like to save.  I have friends that have added Savings to their name or Coupons it is really up to you. 
Creating a Facebook account for money things is a great idea, it saves your regular account from many notifications to weed through. 
Examples of my other account are:
I have joined the Facebook groups of all the products I enjoy.  Doing this allows you to get a notification of coupons or contests.  Example:  Purex, advil and some of my favourite shampoos.
I sell a lot of things online.  Through this account I have joined all of the FB buy and sell groups and have all the messages come through to here. 
I follow Dave Ramsey, Rachel Cruze and Chris Hogan's Facebook pages on this account.  I use this account to subscribe and follow the money articles I enjoy. 

If you are thinking about diving into saving money, creating a new Facebook Account may work for you.  I enjoy that my personal account only gets notifications about the updates in my friend's lives:)

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Brush Your Teeth!

I get my toothpaste for free through coupons or from the dentist. However, I still don't want to burn through my stockpile of it, or throw it away when it isn't empty.  We cut up the side of this tube and stick our toothbrush inside and brush our teeth with what is scraped on.  This gives us almost an extra week from a tube!
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Packed Lunch....part 2

It is the night before school starts, and Facebook is full of posts about the dreaded packed lunch.  I popped a batch of popcorn to be a snack for tomorrow.  The kids will have their snack in a ziplock bag (reused of course) and mine is in a yogurt container.  We eat a lot of yogurt and recently I started to collect the containers to reuse.  I won't send these with my kids, but when we go on outings as a family they are great.  Friday I was out with friends when they pulled a Folgers container out of their bag filled with goldfish crackers.  My first reaction was shock that my buddy was thinking Cheap like me, then I felt proud, and then I thought man, that's going on my blog!  Sadly, the picture came out dark. The point is, be creative with the snacks you pack, and the packaging.  Kids aren't the only ones that should be eating a packed lunch. 

Lunch Box Repurposed

There was a phase in my children's lives when everything was about the Disney Princesses.  This ship has sailed, and of course the remains of the Princesses are everywhere in our home.  I was preparing today for back to school and came across a few Thermos Jars that I was positive the kids wouldn't use even though they were in great shape.  I had nothing to lose, so I decided to take an SOS Pad to scrub off the picture.  It worked perfectly! Now I have a few Thermos Jars for each kid's lunch box that are plain and were essentially FREE!!! I am so happy this worked, however, I am now kicking my butt for not trying this sooner and buying them and the water bottles I have seen at Yard Sales all summer. I hope this helps some of you with the back to school lunch boxes. 

Free Organization Tip

I drink a lot of coffee, plus 2 kids equals a lot of milk jugs at our house.  I am not sure where my husband got this idea from but I feel so proud! I went into the basement and saw on his work bench he has cut down milk jugs and uses them to hold screws, nails, bolts etc.  Then recycle the top part. I am impressed, I have to share!!!
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Explore Your Community

Yesterday it was an overcast day. My husband took a day off work for a Fam Jam day and we wanted to have an experience of some sort.  I put a post on Facebook asking what people suggest for the day. I suggest doing this as I got  lot of ideas! A friend who has a child the same age as my oldest suggested the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic.  This seemed like the perfect mix of inside and outside and it triggered a deal. 
I have blogged before about the library, and here I go again. Each branch of our library has 2 family day passes to the Fisheries Museum.  Just show your library card and they give you a pass on a blue laynard that has to be returned same day, after hours in the drop off box is fine.  After I got it I sent our friend up and she was told that there are online ones and they were signed out.  I sent another friend up this morning and they told her the same thing. If you plan to go in, ask for the hard copy that you could wear around your neck.  My buddy texted me from the parking lot and I described it and she went back in and borrowed it.  This saved our family over $30 well worth it. 
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