For a solid decade, we’ve been on a journey to financial freedom. Ten years ago, I was getting up and going to a job every day, not one that I hated or even disliked, but one that took me away from my babies. It was 10 Christmases ago that the Lord took me to an […] Read more…
As a new year takes off, we all have goals. One of the number one goals or resolution is to get in better financial shape. I am sharing my top money savers with you because I love saving money. There’s truly something exhilarating about watching your savings account grow and your monthly debits shrink! Top […] Read more…
There really are lots of ways to save money on groceries. However, much of the savings start before you ever hit the store front door! In a previous post, I offered some basics of saving money on groceries. They really are necessary if we want to get a handle on our grocery budgets. However, if you […] Read more…
Grocery shopping let alone budgeting and meal planning for said shopping is anything but fun for most of us. In fact, most of us dread the idea of even sitting down to make a list much less look through sale papers and factor it all into a set amount of money. However, if we are […] Read more…
When the budget has been tight for as long as you can remember, you struggle in the every day. (Or maybe it’s just me?) Somehow, I find myself obsessing over things that I simply have no control; trying to figure out things that seem to have no answer. My husband has a good job, and […] Read more…
Over the last few weeks, I’ve shared ways to get on track with your finances in parts one and two of this series. Today I’d like to share a few more things (and maybe reiterate a couple) that can really make a difference when you are trying to “find” and save money. How can I […] Read more…
The question so many people ask is, “How do I save money when I have nothing left? I’m broke.” That’s the same question we had. We had cut all the obvious things, and made big changes, as I mentioned in part 1 of this series. Let me share with you the next steps of our […] Read more…
Sometimes you need a getaway. But sometimes (or always) money is tight or you have a boatload of little people. Going away to stay in a hotel just doesn’t have any appeal. And sometimes, you agree to go camping because your husband wants go camping. For Christmas, the kids and I gave their daddy a 10 man […] Read more…
Am I the only one who thinks of herself as Anne Shirley or Laura Ingalls Wilder sometimes? I must admit that I love those characters and what the world was like then. Many times I have thought I was born in the wrong time period–I should have been alive during my grandparents’ childhood days. All these […] Read more…
