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Back to Basics: Saving Your Savings

For the Mommas

This is always the first step to building savings. If there is money left in your budget at the end of the pay period, move it to savings as well. Read more about Back to Basics: Saving Your Savings. Related posts: Guest Post: Back to Basics – Taking Time for Yourself. Spending $3.03 Set up a budget.

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7 Ways Preparing for Emergency Survival can be Green

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They had a well, with a hand pump. They did not have indoor plumbing – using a bucket with water drawn from the well with a dipper for drinking water, and an outhouse by the shed when nature called (kids got a chamber pot at night, thank heavens). When I was a child, my paternal grandparents lived on a farm.

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