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A Dining Room Makeover Using Stuff I Already Had

April 24, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

We spend a lot of time in the kitchen and dining room. I spend a lot of time looking into the dining room from the kitchen. When we moved into the house four years ago there was no money for furniture, and with two kids in college and three more to go, that budget remains […]

Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: before and after, dining room before and after, dining room makeover, makeover on a budget, recycle, reduce, repurpose, reuse, upcycle

Milk Jug Skeletons — Free, Recycled, And Your Kids Will Love Them

October 28, 2017 by not your average mom 2 Comments

A couple years ago, I made a milk jug skeleton for the kids for a Halloween decoration. There are a bunch of versions online and on Pinterest — here is one that is pretty good. It took about an hour and a half to make, and the kids loved it. I don’t know if I […]

Filed Under: Decorating and DIY, Kids' Corner, Moneysavers Tagged With: decorations, diy, free, glue gun, Halloween, milk, milk jugs, paper clip, recycle, reduse, reuse, skeleton

My Favorite Way To Refinish A Table

October 13, 2013 by not your average mom 5 Comments

A couple weeks ago I got a text… There was a table on the side of the road. I dropped off Number 3 and 4 at school and went to check it out. I gave the table to my father. He’s like the Duke of Refinishing. I asked him to strip the top and stain […]

Filed Under: Decorating and DIY, Moneysavers Tagged With: diy, Elephant's Trunk, freebies, non consumer, recycle, refinishing tables, repurposing, reuse, tables

Trash to treasure. Turn a headboard into a…

October 1, 2013 by not your average mom 3 Comments

This is the end to one of the boys’ old bunk beds. I have four of them. I’ve had them for about four years. I’ve been saving them for something. I just didn’t know what. Until recenly… We took one and primed it. Then my husband built this out of scrap wood from his shop: […]

Filed Under: Decorating and DIY, Timesavers Tagged With: recycle, recycling a headboard, reduce, reuse

Way #947 to reuse a milk jug.

April 22, 2013 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

My kids love chocolate milk, but buying the already made stuff is way more expensive than mixing it myself. I used to mix my own in a Rubbermaid pitcher, but it was a real pain to clean. Especially in the handle. I could not get all traces of chocolate milk out of there. So now […]

Filed Under: Timesavers Tagged With: chocolate milk, milk jug, recycle, reduce, reuse

Make your own watering can.

April 21, 2013 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Today we made watering cans. It was pretty easy. Here’s what you need: a milk jug (make sure it has a screw on top) or small laundry detergent container a drill (you could probably use a hammer and a nail if you don’t have a drill) paint, if you want to decorate your watering can […]

Filed Under: Kids' Corner, Timesavers Tagged With: Earth Day, kid activities, laundry detergent, milk jugs, recycle, reduce, reuse, watering can

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