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
One of my all-time favorite DIY projects is lip balm. It’s incredibly easy to make and this recipe is wonderful for soothing dry and chapped lips throughout all seasons of the year […]
I actually enjoy cleaning if I have the time and the right products to do so. I know, I’m one of those weird people, but there is something about the satisfaction of a clean house at the end of the day that makes all the work worth it. Add in
This past December we created a budget to assist us in paying down debt. At the time, we were consistently spending $600* (or more) on groceries each month for our family of four. Since beginning this budget, we’ve managed to whittle that down to an average of $425 per month.
It’s a dangerous practice: not scheduling adequate rest time, but in a generation that prides itself on the constant go, go, go: how do you make it happen?
Rest is critical for the body; any athlete knows that. If you work out and train every […]