Budget

Cutting Grocery Costs

May 6, 2009

This post was originally posted on February 3rd, but it bears repeating as it is my Top Frugal Tip. The number one question I am asked is how I keep my grocery budget as low as I do. Implementing these following 8 tips helped me gain control of my grocery budget, which has given us [...]

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Finding Freedom Friday: 2009 Goal Update

May 1, 2009

Goodbye April. I think I may miss you, sorta. Not a huge fan of all the rain and all that jazz, but all in all you were pretty good to me. It’s time for another update on my 2009 Goals. Again, if you haven’t made goals yet, it’s never too late. I encourage you to [...]

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Finding Freedom Friday: 2009 Goal Update

April 2, 2009

I find goals play an integral part to my success in any aspect of my life, whether it be goals for the day, my goals as a wife/mother, or goals that I set for a year. Taking a look back periodically really keeps me on the right track, and keeps the goals (and where I [...]

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Making Your Own vs. Store Bought

March 27, 2009

This topic is very near and dear to me for numerous different reasons. It all actually started when I started taking a closer look at our grocery budget and seeing where I could trim. From there I realized that basically everything that I relied on the grocery store for (which was everything), I could make [...]

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Finding Freedom Friday Topic: Making Own vs. Store Bought

March 25, 2009

As part of our journey to lead a more frugal and simple life, I have found great pleasure in making many things for my home. This includes curtains, food, cleaners, gifts, and our very own garden..amongst other things. As part of the Finding Freedom Series, I would love to hear how you have found freedom [...]

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Budgeting: How’s it Working?

March 13, 2009

**I’m working on adding Mr. Linky–he’s being tempermental and doesn’t want to show up! In the meantime–leave your link in the comments, and I’ll add ‘em all in when I can fix it!** After much frustration–he popped up! This week for Finding Freedom Friday we’re talking budgets. A very important topic when it comes to [...]

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Ready to Talk Budgets?!

March 11, 2009

This week for Finding Freedom Friday we will be going over the oh so dreaded topic of budgets! You knew it was coming, though, right?! Back in January I challenged you to make a cash flow plan and make it work for you. Part of that is re-evaluating and seeing how it is working and [...]

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February Goal Check-Up

March 3, 2009

I’m all about honesty here, and I will let you know that I have been very hesitant at looking back on the month of February. I knew it had to be done, but I knew that it wasn’t a very good month–for various different reasons. January flat out rocked my socks off. I was dumbfounded [...]

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Finding Freedom Friday

February 27, 2009

When we first started our journey, we were spending an outlandish amount of money on groceries a month. Literally, the size of a house payment. I’m a analyzer, but somehow never analyzed my grocery budget like I was getting ready to. Amazingly enough, I realized that $650/month for 5 people was way too much. We [...]

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Grocery Shopping Trip

February 10, 2009

I’ve been rather absent from the grocery shopping world for a few weeks. We experienced a sleet/snow/ice storm a few weeks ago, that was the worst one to grace our area in quite sometime. It took quite awhile for everything to melt away, but even then we didn’t return to school. Our high school apparently [...]

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