SC Johnson Family Economics Blog

Save money, spend time

Let's face it: Times are tight and budgets are shrinking. But there are ways to stretch, and even (gasp!) have fun doing it! This blog is about finding ways to get more from every household dollar, and enjoy every precious minute.

Organizing Your Car

When you are a mom sometimes you can feel like you live in your car. Sometimes it also looks like you live in your car! Soccer clothes, food wrappers, diapers, even food can make your car look like a disaster very quickly. Once, while sitting in my sister’s car I reached in the arm rest to find an apple core! Keep your cars looking nice all the time with a few rules to drive by...

Warm Up with Homemade Hot Chocolate

One of the things I remember loving the most was my mom’s homemade hot chocolate mix. In the wintertime, she would make up a huge batch of hot chocolate mix and we would enjoy it all winter long. When friends would come over, they would always request my mom’s hot chocolate because it “was the best!”...

Clean Your Whole House in Minutes

When you have company coming over, and they are coming soon, you need to clean the entire house and FAST! It doesn’t have to be a huge project or undertaking, you can accomplish it in minutes if you follow this system...

Recycled Greetings

If you’ve been hanging onto your cards as well, even leftover new cards from a previous year’s mailing, this might just be the holiday to clean out and recycle them. With inexpensive card stock and envelopes from a paper supply house or craft store, you can create your own uniquely clever and thrifty holiday greeting cards...

A Special Place

As someone who normally really struggles in the creativity department, I find that the opportunity to set a beautiful table thrills me. I love seeing the looks on the faces of guests when they walk in to our house for a dinner party and they notice that I took some extra time to make the event extra special by setting a beautiful table...

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