How to feed a family healthy meals, while staying on a strict budget is a dilemma that will never go away completely. Prices change, budgets change, and you’ll always have to be flexible. That said, with a little strategic planning, I believe that it will always be possible to build a healthy Keep Reading
4 Affordable Tools For The Beginning Photographer
Have you ever tried something and were so bad at it that you shocked and repulsed yourself, and just wanted to like, never do it again? As I wrote about in my article 7 Tools That Will Massively Improve your Photography, that’s how I was with taking pictures two years ago. I couldn’t take a Keep Reading
How to Get The Best Prices on Flights
Here I am sitting comfortably on an Argentine bus next to my five-year-old son Garrett, who is taking turns gawking at the mountains we’re driving past, and playing games on his Amazon Kindle - which we’ve made clear is going to be put away or even sold after this trip. Across the aisle from Keep Reading
Easy! 10 Doable Steps To Save Money
Saving money sure doesn’t always seem easy. I mean look, I went shopping last week, list in hand, prepared to get what was on it and nothing else (but of course, that didn’t happen), and when I got through the checkout line, My total came out to $120. {{{jaw drop}}} And what do I have in my fridge Keep Reading
What Is Your Number One Daily Money Waster?
Sometimes, I get the feeling that I’m slacking off in the frugality department, so I ask myself “what is your number one daily money waster?” It’s not that I necessarily think it’s bad to splurge, or “waste” money on things you want. But right now, I’m spending a lot of money on things I want Keep Reading
How A Family of Four Started A Savings Account on Minimum Wage
A few years ago, Gabriel and I were living in Tennessee, raising cows, and starting a family. They were good times, living right next to my family, getting to see my mom and most of my siblings every day, but that didn’t keep those days from being just as much of a disaster as a blessing. Without Keep Reading
What We Ate During No-Spend Week
We’ve been spending too much on groceries. You know how it is. I’d go to the store, put a few things in my cart, be shocked at how so little could cost so much, go home and put the groceries away, then do it all over again. It probably didn’t help that on my last trip I bought three watermelons. Keep Reading
How To Save Money At Small Town Stores
I use to see all these great shopping strategies on friends blogs, and feel like I was at a big disadvantage because we lived in such a tiny town, that we didn’t have any places to bargain shop. And by tiny, I mean, that a Mom and Pop grocery store, and Dollar General are literally the only places Keep Reading
5 Things I’m Doing To Save Money Right Now
As a self-employed couple our monthly income tends to vary pretty widely. For a while - it felt like forever - we lived on what most would consider a poverty level budget - completely dirt poor - but with a lot of hard work building our businesses, our finances have improved considerably, and while Keep Reading
The Ultimate List Of Grocery Money-Saving Tips
Of all the things we spend money on, I think groceries are one of the biggest recurring expenses, and they are by far the biggest recurring expense that we can massively cut back on. I’m constantly amazed by how there are literally endless numbers of tips floating around on the internet for how Keep Reading