￠ Mothercents Mondays ￠

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Our reader Serena commented that listening to motherwit can carry traditions and heritage into the present. Investigating motherwit can also invest in ourselves and our futures.

Money management requires careful planning and a lifetime of practice. We will unpack the general principles gradually, but like the staircase, every journey begins with a single step.

Fortunately, many moms can slice their budget tips into bite-size bits. Join us every Monday for our theme day: Mothercents Monday.  You can put these simple steps right into place to prevent waste and save money.  Please feel free to give feedback and suggestions in our comments.


Waste Not, Want Not

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This World War I Canada Food Board poster promoted food preservation. One hundred years later, the same principles of
thrift can benefit us rather than a war effort.  We can start by preventing bug infestations of staples in our cupboards right now.

Mothercents Tip 1: 

Freeze your flour. My friend Angela learned this trick to kill larva from her home-economics teacher and mother. Neither Angela nor her mother ever loses flour to bugs at this critical stage, although Wikihow recommends freezing flour up to four days.

When you bring home a new sack of flour from the store, stick it into the freezer for at least twenty-four hours.  You may move it to standard storage after the deep freeze kills any larva which may have unfortunately entered flour in the grinding process.

Please invoke your own motherwit and tell us about it.