I didn’t want to pay off debt. I wasn’t on board. And once we started, I didn’t want to. Yet now, at the end of it, I can see I gained much more than financial freedom. I learned how to be free and content in all areas of my life. If I didn’t apply these …
If you are searching for frugal ways to save money during Christmas, this is for you. I don’t know what your idea of frugal is, but I know plenty of people read the headline Frugal on Pinterest and think along the lines of bare bones. Minimal. Downer during the holidays. Like the woman who commented, …
Hey Everyone. Are you all shopped out from Black Friday and Cyber monday? Hopefully you are ready to get up and get back into the stores this week. We all still have to eat right? This week I went to Walmart & Target only looking for clearance. I stacked Ibotta & Circle offers with my …
Every time I see my six-year-old daughter take a bath by herself, she squeezes as much soap into the tub water as she can. I cringe because it’s such a waste. The plus side is I don’t need to wash her hair because of the clumps of soap already floating around. 🙂 I think about …
Looking through cookbooks is something that has always soothed me. Just before I would go into labor, I would be paging through an old cookbook. I enjoy cooking for others and trying new recipes, but finances have gotten the best of me in the past. Making a new recipe for the first time for 10 …
I’ve been a couponer for years now. As with everything else with technology speeding in front of us, you have to adapt. Today many retailers encourage couponer’s to use their apps or add coupons through their website. I’ve stepped away from Ibotta over the past year but I’m ready to get back into it. ( …
Friends, if you haven’t shopped Dollar General yet, let this post encourage you to jump on board. They have great clearance events where you don’t need a stack of coupons. I’m excited for all the clearance in stores lately, so much I don’t even bother shopping thrift stores anymore. This week Dollar General has 90% …
It happens every year. We wait. We buy something here and there. We browse through the stores to look for gift ideas. But we all know what happens. The overwhelm wriggles its way in. It is EXHAUSTING for many of us to think about Christmas. And by the time we think about it, we are …
It’s time for another budget for groceries shopping trip! This is the fourth consecutive week I’ve been sharing my grocery shopping trips. I am continuing on to give you a full circle on how this budget grocery shopping actually works. If you are new here read this quick. There are three key things to keeping …
I thought I couldn’t leave you hanging from last week’s $60 grocery trip. To follow it up you will see what it looks like for a filler week as I call it. We are using up a lot of cucumbers, tomatoes, and strawberries from the garden! I can’t believe we are still getting strawberries. I …