Any married couple knows that one of the hardest things in marriage is dealing with the finances. It doesn’t matter how much money you have (or don’t have) when you get married, trying to figure out how to balance your finances with those of your spouse can result in endless
Social media is everywhere. Anymore, it’s hard to check restaurant hours, find business reviews, or keep in touch with old friends without having a social media account. It’s the place where garage sales live, jobs are found, businesses gain […]
We’ve all been there at one point or another, wondering how to keep our friends and maintain our budget at the same time. It starts with a friend calling to ask if you want to go to dinner. You look at that well-planned budget for the month, and suddenly you
This past weekend my sister invited me to go thrift store shopping with her. It’s one of our favorite pastimes (even the kids love it) and clothing was 50% off that day, so I couldn’t resist tagging along. With coffee and kids in tow, we scoured the racks for […]
Bullet journals are all the rage right now and I have to admit, I had no idea what they were until a friend mentioned it was her New Year’s Resolution to start one. After a bit of research, I found out that I’ve spent a lot of years doing my
One of the hardest things to do when you are beginning a new budget or starting on the pathway to being debt free is figuring out what a budget looks like in real life. How do you break it all down for your family expenses? After all, we all vary
With both of us working while juggling the girls’ homework, activities, dinners with friends, and church commitments, we are often left struggling to find time to rest. You probably know exactly what I’m talking about – all good things, but no time to recover in between. About a year ago,
After nearly four months of “extreme budgeting,” I came to the realization that our budget has to have a miscellaneous category with a certain amount of money in it, for the sole purpose of flexibility for additional, unbudgeted expenses. Of course, our goal […]
One of the hardest things about maintaining a household, especially when kids are involved, is how to get everything done in the mere 24 hours you’ve been given each day. I’ve been asked quite a few times over the past few months, how do I manage to work, raise my
It’s hard to think about budgeting when your income is consistently less than your expenses each month. You might check out Pinterest and have your feed flooded with all the sure-fire ways you can save $5,981 in six months, but you might be simply trying to figure out how you
How are those New Year’s Resolutions coming along? I feel like we made it to March, over two months into new goals and aspirations that we hoped would place us in better situations, in our finances, health, and family, among other things, and it’s time for a little resolution reevaluation.
Over the past few years, there has been a drastic increase in the number of recipes you can use to make your own (insert product here). Along with those recipes and tutorials comes the promise that you will save INCREDIBLE amounts of money yearly if you do so. I’m all