How To Nurture A Love Of Reading With Your Baby: I’m a reader. Some of my earliest memories are of my Mom reading to me. She read to us all the time and would drop anything if we had a book in hand. I was the oldest of six kids and remembered coming home from […]
What To Include In Your 72-Hour Kit: 72-hour kits are designed to be a grab and go emergency kit in the case of a natural disaster or emergency situation. The object is to have enough food and equipment to survive for three days. You most likely won’t be comfortable, but you will survive. A few […]
Want To Work From Home? Ultimate Resource Bundle Now Available: Over and over again as I speak with my readers, I’ve come to realize that most people don’t have a spending problem, most people have an income problem. Most of my readers are great budgeters who have found amazingly creative ways to save money. However, […]
How To Complete Your Home Inventory Checklist: I’m not the most organized person in the world. I try really hard, but it just isn’t something that comes naturally to me. However, since starting this blog, I’ve turned over a new leaf and am trying to overcome some of my natural laziness. One of the projects […]
How To Cheat Your Clothing Budget And Dress In Style: I’m not a stylish person by any stretch of the imagination. I live in jeans and a t-shirt 80% of the time. I enjoy dressing up occasionally, but it just isn’t my time and season right now. I’ve got a baby and I work part-time […]
5 Tips To Stop Spending Creep From Destroying Your Budget: I’ve noticed a trend in my spending lately. It is increasing – frequently. Most of it is just a bit of laziness on my part. We hit our major financial goal of getting out of consumer debt. Yes, I have other financial goals, but my […]
How our emergency fund saved us $1,500: Making large dollar purchases is nerve wracking. I hate spending money and I really, really hate spending a lot of money at one time. When we purchased our home 7 years ago it was a new build. We were super excited to be in a home that in […]
How To Set Up A Percentage Based Budget: A percentage based budget is a simple budgeting system based on three categories: Needs Wants Saving It is literally that simple. I recommend reading Is A Percentage Based Budgeting Plan Right For You before starting this post to make sure this is the right budgeting plan for […]
How To Fly With A Baby: My baby is getting more frequently flyer miles than most adults. My first time flying with Ella she was 3 months old and I was petrified. I heard so many horror stories about crying babies and had been on a few planes with them myself. I knew flying with […]
Is A Percentage Based Budget Plan Right for You: The percentage budget is one of the easiest budgeting systems to implement. I’ve used all types of budgeting methods at various times in my life. Some have worked better than others, this is one of the winners. The basis of my current budget is the 50/30/20 […]
