Barb's Notebook

Healthier Coffee: If you want a quick and easy way to less guilty coffee, consider switching from half and half to evaporated milk. It contains about the same number of calories, but is much lower in fat. You will be surprised at how creamy it is, and it is more nutritious. Plus, for those on a budget, it costs less than half as much.

Fun Food Facts

The Cook’s Thesaurus

International Cookies

Recession-Proof Guide to Saving Money On Food

Shoestring’s End

FRUGAL LIVING
Freebie O’The Day

Tawra’s Tightwad Tips

When a treat stops being a treat

The Simple Dollar “best of the best” and more “greatest hits“

Guardianship

Ten Clever Money Savers

Baking Soda
Maximizing Target Clearance

COMPUTER
12 Things you should never do online

Free Piano Music

List Universe

EDUCATION

Tools for Educators: worksheets, etc.

Make your own whiteboards

Multiplication help

Worksheet Works

To Teach from USCCB

CatholicMom.Com Back to School Links

Notre Dame Open Courseware

MEDIA

Jorim’s List

Testing 1-2-3

barbszy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:00:36 +0000

Just testing the “post-ahead” feature!

October 27: Free Printables!

barbszy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:02:25 +0000

I love free printables. They save me from having to reinvent the wheel, or purchase things I could easily print at home.

Donna Young has fabulous printables!

I wanted to print out some number lines for Middle Sister, who is studying integers. This site allows you to make your own number lines and other graph paper–easy to customize, and you can save the resulting PDF to your computer for future use.

Here’s a cool site to make your own staff paper and guitar tablature templates.

DIY Planner has planner pages of all formats and sizes.

PocketMod is a tiny foldable organizer. It has 8 “pages” and is disposable when you’re done with it. Great to keep in your pocket or purse.

Houseworks Planner has tons of forms for a household binder.

A big THANK YOU to the people who have shared their hard work on these sites!

Barb’s Notebook 10-22-2008

barbszy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:39:09 +0000

SCHOOL-RELATED (yes, the school year is well underway but it’s never too late to start a good habit)

Why volunteering in your children’s classroom is a productive use of your time (@ Productivity@Home)

Back to School with GTD (@ Productivity@Home)

Center’d Back to School Resource Page

College Applications at Common Application

Sparkpeople’s info on School Lunches

HOMEMAKING STUFF

Ways to Winterize Your Home (@ The Simple Dollar)

Never Buy Another Cookbook (like THAT’s gonna happen–but this has great info on how to find them in the library) (@ Frugal Hacks)

E-PREP

Surviving a Natural Disaster (@ The Simple Dollar)

What if you lose your wallet? (@ The Simple Dollar)

My notebook

barbszy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:20:30 +0000

My notebook–my cyber-brain! Here I will keep any links to interesting tips, articles, recipes. Probably some of them will make it to a blog post later.