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Three Easy Ways to Give Back this Christmas
After the gratefulness of Thanksgiving comes a flurry of commercialism and materialism: Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. I like to shop with the best of them, and I always have...
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A Simple Christmas Tip #2 – Redefine the Perfect Holiday
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A Simple Christmas Tip #3 – Simplify the Outdoor Decor
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Get Personalized Gift Ideas for Those Hard-to-Buy-For People
We all have those people on our list – the people whose wish list is either nonexistent or full of very expensive toys. We wrack our brains trying to come up with an affordable but desirable gift...
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Of Christmas and Tragedy
This picture was posted on Facebook by a local radio station. I am not sure who is the original source. But I think this is what Heaven looked like today. To some, Christmas seems like a terrible time...
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Don’t Buy for Everyone – Pick Names at Christmas!
Since there are 11 children in my family, my mom, as I have mentioned before, found lots of ways to simplify our Christmas gift-giving process. Rather than each of us giving all 10 other kids a gift,...
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A Simple Christmas Tip #25 – Happy Birthday to Jesus!
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The Top 12 Posts of 2012
It’s been a big year on the blog: a name change, domain change, design change, and the whole nine yards! I can barely even remember the old Quick and Easy Cheap and Healthy! But the spirit remains: the...
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A Look Back at 2012 in Blog Posts
January I started out the new year with a goal to learn how to make a variety of dairy products. I made almost everything on my list (except mozzarella and butter, which I determined was kind of...
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Does English Seem Like a Foreign Language Sometimes?
I admit it. I’m totally a phonics geek. I love the phonetic aspect of language, and I love the challenge of untangling the mysteries of the sound-spelling relationship of the English language. I get...
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Simple Hospitality: Host a Kaffeeklatsch
Some times I think we have the idea that hosting guests in our home has to be a big ordeal complete with written invitations (or at least an evite), a set of fine china, a sparkling clean home, and the...
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Take a Staycation… One Day at a Time!
Except for the occasions when we’ve joined one or the other of our families for a “real” vacation, my DH and I have mostly enjoyed “staycations” throughout our married life. This year is no different,...
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Vegan By Day, Omnivore By Night: Mark Bittman’s VB6
This post contains affiliate links. Recently, as I was browsing through the cookbooks available on my local library’s eBook rental service, I stumbled across Mark Bittman’s latest book, called “VB6″....
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5 Picnic Food Ideas
As part of our Day-at-a-Time-Staycation, we’ve had quite a few picnics this summer. My Certain Little Someone was trying to keep track of them at first, but he lost count somewhere around 4 or 5, and...
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5 Tips for a Perfect Picnic
We’ve been enjoying a lot of picnics as part of our day-at-a-time staycation, and I’ve learned a few tricks along the way. Henceforth and therefore, without further ado, I share said tricks with you....
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Can’t See the Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Note: I’ve used to my Amazon.com affiliate in the links to the various CD’s below. Thanks for supporting Authentic Simplicity!I rarely pause to share my heart here at Authentic Simplicity, mostly...
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Safety Online
I was provided a year’s subscription to Covenant Eyes in exchange for this post, but all opinions and thoughts are my own. This is not a commercial; just my thoughts about a very real problem each of...
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Simplifying, Twenty-First Century Style
This is a sponsored post written on behalf of Staples. All opinions are mine, of course. (Are there any other?!) As much as I would love to return to a simpler time and a simpler place, I have to admit...
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A Redeemed Jack-O-Lantern
As much as I love to cook up a good pumpkin and throw it into just about everything, I’ve found that there are other – non-culinary – uses for those big fat squashes that might not be edible, per se,...
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The Christmas Letter That Wasn’t
This year I accidentally took my own advice and sent New Year’s cards instead of Christmas cards. (OK, to be perfectly transparent… I haven’t actually sent anything yet. It’s on my to-do list!) I say...
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