Category — Cost Saving Tips and Tipoffs

Who doesn’t like a nice smelling home? After cars and bathrooms, the next place many look to aromatize is their living spaces. Often we find homes with essential oils burning in the background, releasing the tender smells of ylang ylang or the relaxing odor of lavender amongst the myriad fragrances available in the market today.

Metafora Home Ambience fragrances are somewhat unique in that the aroma oil permeates from a jar through rattan reeds. These rattan reeds contain channels within the reed itself to produce a capillary effect that in layman terms, sucks up the oil and diffuses it into the air at the tip of the reed

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I’m going to do something a little unorthodox, here. I’m going to defend the use of plastic outdoor furniture in your backyard.

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If you’ve been scouting for lighting for your home, I recommend Far East Esteem Sdn. Bhd. – located in Seri Kembangan. The folks there claim to be distributors hence are able to offer lower prices than other common lighting stores.

All 38 downlights, kitchen and stairs lighting were purchased from Far East Esteem. The folks were kind enough to allow me to exchange a light I had purchased which did not look as great as envisioned, for another design.

The address:

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Hi, I am Kelly Rigotti, an American and living in France with my three children and handsome French frog of a husband. I blog about frugality for the rest of us at Almost Frugal, frugal food at Almost Frugal Food, and blogging at Pretty Your Blog. I am a full time graduate student in marketing and, in my spare time and fueled by strong coffee, I sew baby blankets for my Etsy shop. If you enjoyed this post, why not subscribe to one (or all) of my feeds?

I have been invited by Adrian from How’sHouse as a guest blogger to share with you, my second article – 5 Ways to Save Money in the Bedroom. I hope you enjoy the article.

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1. Love your linens

Linens are one area where you can find reasonable quality at a reasonable price. Here’s a frugal way to save money on your linens without sacrificing quality: spend a moderate amount of money on 2 pillowcases and a matching comforter cover and then buy two bottom sheets in coordinating colors; if you like lots of pillows buy more plain pillowcases as well. I like having two bottom sheets that go with the comforter cover, in case one gets dirty before wash day. You’ll spend less money than if everything matches, and it’s almost certain that you’ll be the only one looking at your bottom sheets anyway.

2. Change your decor

Many of the frugal decorating ideas that we’ll talk about later in the week for the living room also apply to the bedroom, but here’s one that is only for the chambre à coucher. An easy and frugal way to update your bed’s look is to change your headboard. In fact, the most frugal bed option is to buy a good quality mattress and boxspring, add feet to elevate the bed off the floor and then create your own headboard.

Here are some frugal and easy ways to do so. You could paint the section of the wall behind the bed to create visual interest and then add shelves for your books or alarm clock. Or you could create the look of a built in closet by using Ikea Billy bookcases on either side of the bed plus shelves anchored on the wall. Another homey frugal idea is to hang a quilt on the wall behind the bed. My favorite, by far, is to create a padded headboard using a curtain rod and pillows. For more fabulous frugal headboard ideas, check out this link. Doors anyone?

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Hi, I am Kelly Rigotti, an American and living in France with my three children and handsome French frog of a husband. I blog about frugality for the rest of us at Almost Frugal, frugal food at Almost Frugal Food, and blogging at Pretty Your Blog. I am a full time graduate student in marketing and, in my spare time and fueled by strong coffee, I sew baby blankets for my Etsy shop. If you enjoyed this post, why not subscribe to one (or all) of my feeds?

I have been invited by Adrian from How’sHouse as a guest blogger to share with you, my article – 5 Ways to Save Money in the Kitchen. I hope you enjoy the article.

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