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Spending Freeze Day 15: Food Part 2

There’s no magic wand for saving money with food. It’s like everything else that matters–it takes hard work, and a little bit of sacrifice to make it happen. When I give tips such as shop the sales, garden, make more from…

Spending Freeze: Day 14

I’m guest posting over at The Modest Mom today. I first me Caroline when I was a freshman in college and she was Homeschooling with her Mom. It was one of my first introductions to homeschooling and one of…

Spending Freeze day 15: Food, part one

The largest adjustable budget category is food. Many families unknowingly overspend every month on food enough to buy a cruise ticket. Here are my favorite tips to help you start shrinking your grocery bills. 1. Use cash. When the cash…

Spending Freeze Day 12: Figuring Your Hourly Wage

When you DIY to save money, you earn an hourly wage. Sometimes that wage is amazing and proves the activity was definitely worth your time. Sometimes the wage is so low it actually cost you more to DIY than…

Spending Freeze Day 8: Getting Creative

Having money to spend gives choices. Sometimes having too many choices can make it harder to make a decision. During our spending freeze, we have the ease of few choices :). Example to follow: We had to take down our…

Spending Freeze Day 7: Time for Reflection

You’ve made it a whole week in a spending freeze! It’s time to look back and check out your awesomeness. I learned some stuff about myself in the last 7 days. I thought I was a saver, but I’m a spender. I…

Divide It Wallet Giveaway

For carrying cash in my purse, I prefer not to use real envelopes. Messing with flaps while trying to make change for myself with a bunch of kids and long lines makes me a little crazy. I’ve been using a…

Spending Freeze Day 5: Do You Have Enough Categories?

I’m 100% convinced that cash budgets are THE way to stick to a budget and ultimately save the most money. But that doesn’t mean the first time you try a cash budget, it’s going to work out perfectly. We slip…

Spending Freeze Day 3: You Must Use Cash

Congratulations! You’ve made it to day 3! So far, I’ve saved $44 on my spending freeze, by not buying what I normally would. How much have you saved? Put your victories in the comments below. I was tempted to spend…

Spending Freeze Day 2: Celebrate your Victories

So how was yesterday?! I’m hoping it was the hardest day of the challenge for me. We had our friends over to spend the night for New Years and it’s our tradition to shop on New Years Day for organizing stuff.…