Pool Noodle Tic Tac Toe

This is a super easy, inexpensive and fun game to have at any cookout or outdoor party!  We’re going to take this camping with us!

You will need:
· 4 orange pool noodles

· 5 green pool noodles

· 5 blue pool noodles

· Duct Tape

· 9 ink pens or paper straws

· 5 empty toilet paper rolls

· 1 roll of plastic cording

Directions:

Make the Xs and Os BEFORE making the game board!

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My kids were always fighting over the toothpaste.  “She touched it with her toothbrush!”  “He wiped it with his fingers!”  I finally had enough and decided to get each kid their own toothpaste and toothbrush holder.

I couldn’t find anything I liked in the stores so I decided to make my own!  It was super easy and with a little trip to the Dollar Tree and some spray paint I had on hand – it took less than 10 minutes (plus dry time)

Things you need:

Glasses from Dollar Tree
Letter Stickers from Dollar Tree
Spray Paint (Glass friendly) I used this Krylon 2439 ‘Fusion for Plastic’ Satin Pewter Gray Plastic Paint – 12 oz. Aerosol

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I hate weeding.  REALLY hate weeding but I LOVE gardens. When we purchased our house a few years ago there was a beautiful stone pathway.  At one point it had gravel between every rock but over the years it seemed to have disappeared.

I felt like I was spending hours each summer weekend weeding the walkway. I’d tried all sorts of weed and vegetation killer- these things were relentless!

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My life is hectic- to say the least.   With running MoolaSavingMom, being a Mom to 4, Running a household, being a wife, and just being Me- sometimes I look up and suddenly it’s 5 pm!  Then I wander around trying to decide what to have for dinner but I find nothing but frozen chicken and beef.  What to do?

Too often we were eating scrambled eggs or grilled cheese. Not that those aren’t perfectly suitable meals- but we were just having them too often.

So I decided I needed to get more organized.  I needed to have a loose plan for dinner each night.  First I thought about printing out a menu but then I thought- that’s a page a week I’d rather use that paper and ink for COUPONS.

Then I thought about buying a whiteboard- they had cheap small ones at the Dollar Tree but I didn’t like their look and nicer ones at other stores were $6+. I really didn’t want to spend money on such a simple item (yes I am that cheap)

So I went into my closets and found a Dollar store frame and put this inside!

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Here are 4 easy and inexpensive ways to make clear ornaments so beautiful!

1) Make a Melted snowman!  Put Epsom salts, either black paper circles and a orange triangle or small black rocks and an orange triangle in the ornament.

2) Snowman: Fill ornament with Epsom salts.  Paint black eyes and mouth and orange nose on outside of the ornament.

3) Nativity Scene: Find an image of the Nativity Scene- Print it out.  Put it on laminating sheets and cut out ornament shape that fits your ornament.  Roll up and place inside ornament.  Put Epsom salts on both sides of laminate sheet.

4) Christmas Tree Ornament: Find an image of a Christmas Tree- Print it out.  Put it on laminating sheets and cut out ornament shape that fits your ornament.  Roll up and place inside ornament.  Put Epsom salts on both sides of laminate sheet