Are you stressed because Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone and you haven’t even begun to shop? Don’t worry! There is still plenty of time to shop online for the holidays and you don’t need gimmicky sales to snag some great deals while you’re at it. I have increasingly turned to online [...]

If you’re new here, welcome to Jen Spends! It’s time to wrap up our Beat the Rush Gift Guide, and boy do I have an unusual idea in store! I love watching those home makeover shows where the owners are shipped off for a few days while a room or their entire home is redesigned. [...]

Need an easy and cute way to keep a table cloth from sliding around? Tie it with a bow! With a young child in the house, I’ve resorted to using vinyl table cloths to help make cleanup easier. It’s a pain the way they slide around, though. I had intended to make another fitted table [...]

Grouping objects is one of my favorite ways to create a big design impact inexpensively. I’ve seen picture frame wall groupings in countless home decor magazines and I have always loved the look. I thought it would be a fun way to display Mr. Boy’s budding art talents and bring some much-needed life into my [...]

Credit cards generally get a bad rap from money experts, and it certainly isn’t undeserved. I know from experience that credit card debt can be a very bad thing. In the future I will talk in-depth about how I got myself into, and back out of, trouble with credit cards. But first I want to [...]