As parents, it’s tough to see your children struggle. Watching them suffer in sickness or pain tugs at your heart strings. You want to relieve their suffering or take their place. It’s easy to see how the parental love that compels us to rescue and save our children would extend to other areas of hardship. With […]
5 Smart Ways to Use Overripe Bananas (and how to freeze them)
If you’re trying to save money on groceries, the last thing you want to do is throw food away! Wasting food, simply put, is wasting money. In the past I’ve shared 7 ways to use milk that is almost expired to help people not waste one of the most common staples in our kitchens. Today we’ll […]
Everything we spent and earned last month– February 2024 Family Budget Update
Every month we share our family’s real budget with you in an effort to break the taboo about money and help you see how a budget can help you reach your financial goals. When we started openly sharing our finances on 2013, we had six figures of student loan debt. Through hard work and diligent […]
Frugal Feats, Flops, and Funnies: Goodbye Sleeping Bag, Hello Long Arm
Living frugally can be quite an adventure. As with anything in life, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. And sometimes you just have to laugh. Years ago I regularly shared frugal feats, flops, and funnies posts to share with you some of the daily ins and outs of living the frugal life and hopefully […]
29+ Non-food items you should keep stocked at home
Until about four years ago, we all took for granted the ability to purchase whatever we wanted whenever we wanted. When covid hit and the world started shutting down, many people raced to the store to stock up on the most important things. Before supply chain issues had even begun to surface, panic buying cleared […]
4 Things you should tell your kids about YOUR finances
Learning to talk openly with your kids about your own finances is one of the best ways to give them the financial education that they’re not getting anywhere else. Keeping finances hush-hush does more harm than good. If you don’t teach your kids about finances, they’ll likely have to get their education from the school of […]
January 2024 Family Budget Update
We’re back with a fresh 2024 budget! It might look very similar to last year, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?! While the general budget hasn’t changed a lot with the new year, we have a new goal to work on. I can’t overstate the importance of setting financial goals. If you […]
December 2023 Family Budget Update
Talking about personal finance shouldn’t be taboo! That’s why we share our real budget with you every month. In fact, talking about budgeting is a great way to learn how to budget Our budget will look different than yours, and that’s how it should be. Our needs, values, and priorities are different, so it only […]
Cost Breakdown for Our Epic San Diego Trip
You loved hearing about what we spent on our 3-week cross county road trip, our 10-day Washington DC trip, and our Yellowstone Family Trip so I know you’re going to love hearing the financial (and fun) details of our family’s San Diego trip. For Christmas 2022, we did something we’ve never done before. Instead of […]
Money talk without the taboo. Here’s our family’s real budget from last month.
Where did you learn how to budget? Did your parents teach you? Did you learn in school? Of all of the really impactful things you could learn in high school, I think money management is near the top. Yet most people don’t learn about personal finance in high school. I know I didn’t! The informal […]
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