If you’ve been following along for a while you know we’re generally pretty good at sticking to our $400 grocery budget for our family of 7. Well, this month I made an exception and let us go almost $100 over budget! Let me show you what I got during the month and then I’ll explain […]
Hoarder, Minimalist, or Something in the Middle?
Now that we have lived in our house for a year and a half, it seems like every cupboard and closet needs to be decluttered and reorganized. I just went through the children’s books last week and have two big boxes of books to donate. I have been thinking lately about where I lie on […]
Monthly Grocery Shopping Haul– June 2018
Even though it felt like we didn’t have any food by the end of May, I didn’t go shopping until June 6th– nearly a whole week into June! When we were working to pay off our debt, I would play a game with myself to see how long I could put off doing our monthly […]
Transparent Family Budget Update — May 2018
Time for another family budget update! The big news this month is that we’re finally taking an income (albeit a very small one) from the rental apartment above our garage. Before we had renters, we spent a few thousand dollars on repairs to get the apartment ready. That came out of our family budget since […]
Where Do You Keep Your Emergency Fund?
We need help with our emergency fund. Not to reach our goal of $25,000 before the end of the year. I think we’re actually going to be ahead on that (you can see details in our budget report coming Wednesday). The question is where to put the money. Right now, our emergency fund earns 1.0% […]
Money-Saving Kids’ Closet Organization Hack
Today’s creative money-saving idea comes from Jennifer Byars. If you have a money-saving idea to share, you are welcome to submit a guest post (you don’t have to be a blogger). See the guest post submission guidelines for details. I have been told that we are only as frugal as our organizational skills. I am frugal […]
6 Hacks to Never Waste Produce Again!
Ever since I started sharing my monthly grocery shopping hauls, especially now that we’re trying to eat healthier (more real food, less processed stuff), I have received so many questions about how we are able to eat all of our produce before it goes bad. We try to do pretty much the whole month’s shopping […]
$360 Monthly Grocery Shopping Haul– May 2018 (+ video)
After lots of inquiries about how we feed our family of seven on less than $400 per month, I started showing you exactly what we buy with our grocery spending. Of course I don’t expect anyone to buy the exact same things as we buy. Food preferences are pretty personal, but hopefully showing you what […]
Transparent Family Budget Update– April 2018
We were really curious to see how our 2017 taxes were going to turn out. Our tax situation was different than it had ever been so we weren’t quite sure what to expect. Last year we bought a house (after not having owned one for five years), ran two profitable businesses (my blog and my […]
Refinancing Our Mortgage 🏠 (from 30-year to 15-year)– Everything you want to know
Do you get more done when you have a deadline? Us too. The adage that “work expands to fill the time available for its completion” can be true in business, in school, and in financial goals. So as we mentioned in our last two budget updates, we decided to limit the time we spend paying […]
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