I love staying home, especially after a busy week of work. My husband loves going out. Even if we have nothing to do, no errands to run, etc. my husband will just want to go out and drive around. If he has to stay home all day he turns into a grouch!

I do like going out, too, but the thing is, you end up spending money 9/10 times. Every stop for a soda or every gallon of gas used is like a few good coupons wasted! I guess a balance is best.

This March my last child moved out and staying at home is a lonesome prospect for right now but I usually love to be home. I think there are seasons in our lives and this season I like going out and learning how to coupon and teaching others to as well. I enjoy going to Bible studies and to friends.

I’m definitely a homebody! We stay at home every day except Thursday – and that’s grocery/errand day. We go to Bible study on Tuesday morning & church on Sunday morning. That’s about it, other than the occasional lunch at Grandma’s house or quick trip to a nearby park.

You’ve helped us to live a thriftyl lifestye and helped me to earn the title of SAHM, and I’m so thankful for your website

Does anyone else wonder why so many people are still driving so much when gas is so expensive?

Just a thought but I do think when we make our homes welcoming it makes us want to be there more. This does not take money to do. I’m working on decluttering and organizing and to me when things are neat and clean, and there’s good food to eat, I don’t mind being home at all. I’m a work in progress, but this helps me. I also enjoy having a nice cup of coffee or tea and having down time. Without daily down time I get anxious, frazzled and stressed-out. I’ve done the running around 24/7 in my younger years and I don’t desire it anymore.

In all honesty though, when we stick to our homebody ways, our family is genuinely happier. Our home runs smoother, and we are all better rested!

I love the quilt, I will have to do that with the dresses for our girls…and maybe a favorite maternity shirt or two!

I need to get better about organizing the week. Something always seems to come up where I have to leave the house when I thought it was a stay at home day!

What a beautiful quilt!
Lizzie

I remember that every morning my then 3-year-old son would ask, “Mommy, where we are going today?” And on the mornings I’d say, “Nowhere- we’re staying home today” he would shout, “Yay! We are staying home today!!” I guess it’s a testament to our homemaking skills when our family is happy to be at home!

Lately with my down time at home, I’ve been restoring a garage sale find dining room table. It’s going to be a challenge, but a solid wood antique table for only $20 deserves the work, don’t you think? I posted pics of it (on my post about budgeting for the redo of my dining room).

While I’m at home this week, I’ll be figuring out how to remove the rubber mat from this table. It was an old school table from somewhere in the county I live in.

Anyone know how to remove that kind of thing?

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Sure we have a once a week grocery trip (though I often do that on the weekend during the kids’ naptimes), occasional library trips, adventures to the zoo or museum or walks to the park, but by and large-we stay home. The kids play in the yard
And you know what’s so amazing? We get stuff done.

I really think that alot of the time that we complain about how we don’t have enough time to get things done, the reality is we aren’t being good stewards of the time we are given.

If we were to tell ourselves “Okay, I have only one morning (or afternoon or day) this week to be out of the house running all the errands that need to be done, what would I have to do differently to accomplish this?” we could see where we are wasting our energies outside the house.