We received a vehicle to try out for the week, but all opinions are ours alone. It’s happened so many times during my marriage – we *finally* get a night without the kiddos, but the budget just isn’t large enough to something big or fancy. Not that we mind, because we can still have an […]
5 Grocery Budget Tips
I hear so many other moms that are just as frustrated with grocery shopping as I am. We not only have to plan the menu, shop for the food, prep & cook the meals, then hope everyone likes it. Don’t even get me started on dishes! With all that to worry about, we shouldn’t be […]
Car Buying Made Easy
When I was little, I remember adults always complaining about all the life changes and such, and wondered why the big deal. Now that I’m ‘adulting’ the best I can, I realize how stressful it is that life throws so many changes our way, and we do the best we can to keep up with […]
20 Tools & Charts to Help Kids Save Money
Good financial sense is so important, and can have a huge impact on your adult life. A lot of that knowledge and good money habits starts when we’re young, though, so it makes it super important to teach our kids about finances and how to best manage theirs – including saving. To make it a […]
Who’s the Hero of Your House?
We’re glad to partner with StarTex Power, a subsidiary of Constellation, to bring you this fun quiz & see who’s the hero of your house! Thanks for sponsoring this fun post! #HeroOfTheHouse There’s so many ways you can be a hero – by helping others, being brave, caring for animals, the list goes on and […]
Meal Plan on a Budget: Feed Your Family for Less than $5 Per Person a Day!
Nobody wants to spend a ton of time or money at the grocery store, right? Yet it can be frustrating each week creating a meal plan! Now we’ve got you covered with the Meal Plan on a Budget: Feed Your Family for Less than $5 Per Person a Day! A Full 52 weeks of meal plans […]
Join me at The Pinners Conference
I’ll be presenting a class during The Pinners Conference – as such, I receive an affiliate rate when you use my code to purchase a class/ticket. You also receive a 10% discount using it, so it’s a win-win situation! Do you love Pinterest? Have you always wanted to sit down in a class to learn […]
Easy Ways to Cut Your Budget
Have I ever told you that I love finances? Weird, I know – but I actually ENJOY working on a budget, figuring out plans for reaching our goals, and playing with the numbers. What makes it even more fun is finding easy ways to cut your budget! Hubby and I made a lot of financially […]
My Favorite Blogging Resources
I know, typically this blog doesn’t cover actual BLOGGING topics – so if you aren’t a blogger, or not interested in becoming one, don’t worry. If you ARE one, or looking at becoming one, I thought it’d be good share my favorite blogging resources – the things that helped me the most with increasing my […]
Budget Friendly Easter Basket Ideas
I received some free product to help facilitate this post. All opinions are 100% mine alone. It still throws me off that Easter is sometimes in March. Is that weird to anyone else? I know it just depends on the calendar, but I’ve just always considered it more of an April holiday. Anywho – it’s […]
5 Home Buying Mistakes to Avoid
As many of you already know, we recently moved so we could be closer to Hubby’s job. Even though selling our old house, which we truly loved, was that biggest hassle and stress of the whole thing, we also had many headaches when buying our new one. Since there’s already enough to worry about when […]
Varagesale: Sell, Buy & Earn
This post is sponsored by Varagesale. All opinions and experiences are my own. As most of you know, we just made a big move to be closer to hubby’s work. Between clearing stuff out to ‘show’ the house we were selling, to the massive loads we just didn’t want to deal with moving, we tossed […]