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Personalized Easter Basket Fillers for Kids

March 23, 2019 by Stacy Craft 4 Comments

The Easter Bunny has a tricky job. The kids want to wake up to baskets overflowing with toys and egg shaped candies. While the parents are hoping that that cute little bunny brings some useful items and not too much sugar. This list of personalized Easter basket fillers for kids fits the bill with adorable, fun and practical items that will bring joy on Easter morning.

And if you need some extra basket stuffers for a low price, check out Easter stuffers under $5 for preschool kids and for infants.

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Personalized Easter Basket Fillers for Kids

These items don’t just look pretty in a basket! Some are functional, some educational, and some are just plain fun! They are all cute and the Easter Bunny can support some small businesses in the process of filling all those baskets this year!

Your kids will love seeing their name on a bunch of stuff in their basket on Easter Sunday.

Shark or Mermaid Popsicle Holders

I actually ordered these for my kids a couple of months ago. We got one shark for my son and a mermaid tail for my daughter! They are adorable and serve such a functional purpose! No more trying to wrap a paper towel around the bottom to prevent freezing fingers!

We like to freeze the kid yogurt tubes for a slightly healthier option and the kids love them just as much! Shipping was as described and the product was great quality.

Personalized Name Crayons

These are such cute personalized Easter basket fillers! Crayons encourage creativity and imagination. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t love a crayon shaped into their name?

Chocolate Bunny with Personalized Carrot

A chocolate bunny belongs in every Easter basket! Make it even cuter with a name on the carrot.

Personalized Cookie

Another cute Easter treat with your child’s name added to the cookie. Adorable!

Personalized Bunny

There is nothing sweeter than a little stuffed bunny inside the Easter basket.

Personalized Kids Camelbak Water Bottle

I seriously love these! These are the best water bottles and the addition of the name helps to get it back home after it goes to daycare or school.

Sand Bucket

Beach toys make an appearance into our Easter baskets almost every year because we usually have a summer beach trip planned. And truly, my kids play with buckets in my backyard to tote things around and while playing in their blow up pool. These are adorable.

If you have older kids, don’t miss these 11 personalized Easter basket stuffers for Teen girls!

Personalized Easter Basket Fillers for Teen Girls

March 19, 2019 by Stacy Craft Leave a Comment

Tweens and teens get harder and harder to please as time goes on! Of course the coolest electronics and expensive makeup make happy girls. But since the Easter bunny has lots of baskets to fill (5 at our house), he likes to keep the treats reasonable.

Here is a list of cute personalized Easter basket fillers for teen girls that they will love.

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Personalized Easter Basket Fillers for Teen Girls

Here are 11 unique and custom items for your teen or tweens Easter basket this year. It is always nice to find items that are made by other moms or small businesses to support!

These personalized Easter basket fillers for teen girls range in price range but I think you will find many to be very affordable.

Personalized Hair Brush

Lip Balm Key Ring Holder

A simple Easter basket stuffer that is inexpensive and handy to keep on your keychain.

Cotton Headband

Chocolate Bunny with Personalized Carrot

I don’t care if you are one or sixteen, a chocolate bunny belongs in the Easter basket. Add a name onto the carrot.

Personalized Bunny Cookie

Makeup Bag with Name and Likeness

You get to not only add a name but also choose a girl that resembles your teen. Blonde hair or brown. Curly hair or straight?

Saved By Grace Necklace with Initial

The bunny is fun but I love this option to bring Jesus into the Easter basket & remind us what the holiday is all about.

Christian Phrase Notebook or Journal with Name

This shop has tons of different phrases to choose from for the front of these journals.

Phone Charger Monogram

Are phone chargers always going missing in your house? They certainly do in mine! These are so functional and affordable!

Personalized Phone Case

Confetti Soap with Name or Initial

Reviews rave about the smell of these soap bars & the colors are just perfect for Easter.

If you have little ones at your house too, check out 7 personalized Easter basket stuffers for kids! And if the bunny is on a budget, Infant and Preschool basket stuffers all under $5.

Heart Slime Valentine Cards (With Free Printable)

February 14, 2019 by Stacy Craft Leave a Comment

Finding a Valentine favor that pleases everyone can be a difficult task. These simple heart slime Valentine cards are fun for both boys and girls!

Valentine’s Day already! I feel like I just got done with Christmas (ok, let’s be real, my back porch Christmas tree is still up). So maybe that’s why I am running a little behind on the school V-day gifts?

My daughter and I have been working on some cute and very girly nail polish Valentine cards this week. And then I needed to think of something for the boys and slime is of course top of mind! But what I really love about these heart slime Valentine cards is that they are great for boys or girls! Everyone loves slime! (Except maybe the parents)

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Heart Slime Valentine Cards

When I was growing up, my mom always had a little Valentine treat for us when we woke up on 2/14. It wasn’t anything big but it was always something fun that we looked forward too.

One year we got these stuffed animals that sang the lyrics “Wild thing, you make my heart sing.” So while I was designing these “you make my heart slime” cards, that song was playing on repeat in my head! Isn’t it weird the tidbits of things that you remember from your childhood?

So back to these easy, last minute heart slime Valentine cards! I picked up everything at Walgreens and they take no time to make!

Supply List

You only need a few things to make these gender neutral Valentine favors.

Heart shaped slime (in the Valentine section of Walgreens)

3M putty (you could use double sided tape or just skip it altogether if you use the bags)

Clear Favor bags

Free Printable Card

To assemble, print the free printable and trim the paper to create 4 cards. Using your adhesive method of choice, adhere the slime carton to the heart slime Valentine cards.

I was out of card stock and was worried about the slime being to heavy on the regular paper. So I stuck the entire Valentine into a clear favor bag to make sure it stayed altogether.

Then fold over any excess bag and secure it on the back with a piece of tape.

These heart slime Valentine cards are an inexpensive way to send home a non-candy Valentine treat with your child’s school friends.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Nail Polish Valentine Cards For Kids (With Free Printable)

February 12, 2019 by Stacy Craft Leave a Comment

Nail polish Valentine cards are a fun way for kids to gift a colored nail polish to their friends during the class party.

It is February 12th and we just finished the Valentine’s day treats to send for the school party. If this sounds like you, you can still make a cute, homemade Valentine treat to send with your kiddo without any stress!

And if you are looking for more of a gender neutral, last minute Valentine card, check out these slime Valentine cards.

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Nail Polish Valentine Cards for Kids

When making these nail polish Valentine cards, I wanted a non-candy treat that my daughter would enjoy sending to her mother’s day out classroom. The favors that are in the seasonal areas at the store are often junk. You know the kind of stuff that is played with for 5 minutes and then litters your home until you can get it in the trash without your child noticing.

And then you feel guilty. Because some parent spent money on that little piece of junk in hopes of delighting your child. So back in October for the Halloween parties, I started searching out no-junk party favors. I was hopeful that I could find some treats to send that wouldn’t find their trash status within a day of arriving to their new home.

So after thinking about that, these nail polish Valentine cards were born. You can create a fun Valentine card with just two items plus the free printable that the girls will love.

Items Needed for Nail Polish Valentine Cards

So, remember I told you it is almost 2/14? There is no time for massive craft lists and lots of intricate instructions! For these nail polish Valentine cards, you need just 3 items (and one of those is a free printable that you will find at the end of this post)!

The rest of the items could be found on Amazon, Target or even a drugstore.

Nail Polish (I like to buy a Princess nail polish multi pack and then break it up for the Valentine’s)

Clear Favor Bag (Or even a ziplock bag)

Free Printable Valentine Card

The cards come 4 to a sheet. Trim the sheet to create 4 cards. Then fold horizontally right above the words. This will create a little tent that you will fold over the clear treat bag.

Click Here for the free printable.

I cut my treat bag in half since my bag was much bigger than the bottle of nail polish. So to finish these nail polish Valentine cards, just place the folded card over the clear bag and tape it.

Voila! Super cute nail polish Valentine cards that will be a hit at daycare or elementary school. These would even be fun for older girls to gift to their friends.

Hope you have a Happy Valentine’s Day! And check out this Nutella and Strawberry Heart puff pastry for dessert!

Easy Way to Save on Cable And Internet Bill

December 31, 2018 by Stacy Craft Leave a Comment

Find out the easy way to save on cable and internet bill without even making a phone call and put hundreds of dollars back in your pocket!

With a brand new year here, budgets have been on my mind. I have been working on lowering my grocery budget and miscellaneous spending. And I knew there had to be an easy way to save on cable and internet bills as well.

It is kind of embarrassing to admit because I started this blog to share all of the money saving tips that I have learned over the years. However, my personal budget is not in the shape that it should be. I had a couple babies in the last few years and my focus moved from pinching pennies to learning to function on 3 hours sleep. Thankfully, debt is not something that I have taken on but I certainly haven’t been saving or managing my money the way that I know I should.

So while I take on a couple of new budget challenges this year, I wanted to go back to the money saving roots that I have developed as well. Going back to some of the basics in order to get my spending down and my savings up is a priority this year. The best way to start that is to decrease some of your recurring monthly expenses. So I have been working on an easy way to save on cable and internet bill expenses that you can literally work through on your lunch hour (and still have time for a sandwich and some Facebook or Insta scrolling).

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Easy Way to Save on Cable and Internet Bill

I started my new 2019 budget by checking out my large expenses that recur monthly. Of course cable and internet were up there on the expense list. I lowered my bills by $808.20 annually during my lunch break without ever even picking up the phone! I am not sure about you but I can do a lot of things with $800 that sound a lot better than throwing it at a big cable company.

Here I will show you the breakdown of how and what I did to get this $800 savings. Keep reading to see the easy way to save on cable and internet bill this year.

Save on Cable Bill

My husband and I keep talking about moving to a total streaming service and completely getting rid of cable. We haven’t taken the plunge yet but don’t be surprised if that happens in 2019 to save even more money.

For now, we are sticking with our traditional cable service. However, my bill had gotten completely out of control. We moved into our house a couple of years ago and I think the bill was a combo of a few things.

Our initial introductory package had expired
My husband had ordered a special NCAA package (because he HAD to have a particular football game)
Our specialty movie channel free trial expired and we were now paying for those channels
We had a large cable package

I evaluated the items above with my husband and we determined that we were not watching the movie channels at all so they could go. My husband is a big football fan and that is the reason that we got the special sports package. However, since the football season is over, we could at least get rid of the sports package for a few months.

The next thing I did was spend some time comparing the large channel package that we had to the next step down. Thankfully the cable company has a chart that shows what you get or don’t get with each package. We didn’t watch any of the extra channels that we were getting with the bigger package. So essentially we were paying extra money for something we were not using.

Actions to Save Money on the Cable Bill

I was able to downgrade my cable package online without contacting anyone at the cable company. The cable company won’t let you cancel everything using your online account independently. However, I was able to hop onto the “chat” feature and request that the changes be made to my account.

The entire process went very quickly and I was able to save $49.51 monthly or $594.12 annually.

Save on Internet Bill

For the internet bill, I was not as willing to make adjustments. My husband and I both work from home in our day jobs. So we both rely on a reliable and fast internet connection to keep up with our daily tasks.

Of course in addition to work, we need internet for streaming Netflix & Amazon Prime Videos, we have kids with devices, an Alexa. I will be surprised if our fridge doesn’t want to connect to our WiFi soon. So needless to say, I didn’t want to downgrade, I just wanted to pay less. Was it that simple?

It pretty much was. I hopped on a chat with my internet company and asked for a discount. My comment went something like this, “Hi. I have noticed that my internet bill seems higher than usual. Can you please check for any promotions or savings that you could offer?” The customer service rep came back and told me that they could save me $17.84 per month and keep my service exactly the same. I did have to sign a one year agreement but the cancellation fee is less than the new savings so in the event that I did decide to cancel, I would still come out ahead.

My total savings for the internet bill was $214.08 annually.

Total Cable & Internet Savings

Overall, I was able to save $808.20 annually in less than one hour. This easy way to save on cable and internet bill was done on my lunch break without ever even talking to an actual person on the phone!

Do you have an easy way to save on cable and internet bills other than the things that I mentioned? I would love to hear about it!