Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 4, 2014

They blog at 2 Copper Coins. One of the reasons we decided to start our own blog was to hopefully do for someone else what those financial blogs did for us. This meant moving to a less expensive rental, cutting cable and changing our eating-out and entertainment habits. Welcome to Debt Free Stories!

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Koupon Karen

JANUARY 4, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll discuss tips for overcoming addiction without breaking the bank. This could include cutting back on unnecessary expenses such as eating out, buying expensive items, or engaging in activities that contribute to your addiction. They consume lives and leave individuals feeling lost.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Guest Author Bio: Monique loves to blog, and writes about thrifty living and product reviews on her site : Stretching the One Income Dollar. Eating Out. Use coupons, children eat free specials, and discounted restaurant gift certificates to save on meals. Building a college finance fund takes dedication and consistency.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 19, 2011

Guest Post Author Bio: This is a guest post from Joe at Retire By 40 , where he blogs about his journey to early retirement by saving and investing. This week I am participating in a Yakezie blog swap where I am to discuss the topic “ Balancing Frugality and Fun.”. Frugal fun? That’s nuts! Isn’t frugal fun an oxymoron?

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 13, 2016

They write a personal blog, Where Love Takes Us. Photos from that is on our blog. We have continued to celebrate for 2 months now with friends, family, radio shows, blog and social media posts. Drinking water when you eat out. We eat steak all year long (for a fairly good price). Where are you from?

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JUNE 14, 2019

For those times that you will want to eat out, see what’s available at Restaurant.com ahead of time. She helps you navigate and “survive the stores” through her blog, Surviving The Stores , where she posts great deals, coupons, and her own shopping trips.

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The Frugal Girl

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Lina is a relatively new reader (she found me at kind of an odd time in my blog history, which you will see), and she’s lived in Germany, Asia, and Sweden. The post where Kristen wrote about her separation was one of the first ones I read on the blog. I found the blog looking for frugal recipes. Meet a Reader is back!

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 26, 2016

You can only cut so much from a budget, so to fill in our shortfall, we’ll need to also earn extra income by growing our small business and growing my blog income. This will also be the year that we clean out our clutter. We will cut back, but it is unrealistic for me to say we won’t eat out at all this year.

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Nicoles Nickels

APRIL 4, 2011

“ Shout Out To Eat Out – Wild or Mild ”: To enter, participants upload a head shot of themselves and create a wild or mild avatar on shoutouttoeatout.com. Make sure to check out this hot new Wild or Mild Menu – no pun intended! blog about this giveaway (leave the link in the form).

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 18, 2015

My husband was formerly an aerospace engineer but is now a stay-at-home-dad, and I run a blog called LivingWellSpendingLess.com. For fun we mostly like to hang out at home—we’ve really worked to create a comfortable space that people love to visit, and so we are constantly entertaining and having people come and stay. Stop eating out.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

And when dining out, at least follow these 15 Smart Tips to Save Money when Eating Out. 25 – Start a blog. Blogging is not a get rich quick scheme. If you’re creative, enjoy writing, social media, and are passionate about a particular subject, consider starting a blog.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 20, 2017

because we aren’t eating out. We knew it would take us years to get out of debt! While we said no to eating out and going to the movies all the time, we. Then I wrote a series about it on my blog. We take out a small amount. Eating out, buying shoes, whatever. 1 – Meal plan!

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Nicoles Nickels

DECEMBER 30, 2012

This week we ate out on Friday night to do a review for the blog. Every week I have had one meal out and every week I tell myself it’s just one meal it won’t matter and every week I see my weight loss stop or even creep up a pound after the meal out. Jamie’s post: First Week weight loss: 13.8

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Nicoles Nickels

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Because you can only spend what you put on the card it would be an easy way to set an overall budget or even a budget for a certain something, say eating out or grocery shopping and then only using the card for that purpose in a month. I would highly recommend the American Express Prepaid card to Nicole’s Nickels readers.

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 16, 2015

She blogs about living a limitless life on a limited budget at Frugal Debt Free Life. We gave up eating out, cable, driving as many places. Today’s Debt Free Story is from Lydia. Tell us about you and your family. Where are you from? What do you and your spouse do for a living? What are your hobbies? It was laughably bad.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 8, 2014

I’ve been lazy in the past and just planned for the work week and ignored the fact that we do need to eat on the weekends. We might eat out one night, but if I don’t plan the other six days, then it becomes more than one night out and we end up over budget in our ‘dining out’ category too.

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Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

She blogs at The Debt Myth. I quit my job to focus on my own stuff (blogging, painting, rental property, my iPhone app, writing Kindle books, etc.). Today, I’m pleased to introduce you to Jackie. She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. Tell us about you and your family. Where are you from?

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Saving With Shellie

MAY 23, 2013

Then you only need to eat out for dinner. Search for local blogs and other websites that offer staycation ideas for your destination city. We found Traci some great deals at Target this week like free flip flops and $.35 35 sunscreen. :: TIP #2 - Look for a budget hotel with free breakfast and a fridge available.

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Saving Everyday

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

While there are plenty of blog posts out there sharing ways to save money each month , many of them are overwhelming and unrealistic. Read on for strategies we use that really work! From an early age, my Dad instilled in us the value of hard work and living within your means.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 21, 2015

She writes about family, finances and faith at her blog, Principles of Increase. Be willing to sacrifice- there are things we had to do that made us look weird: home school, skip eating out as much with family, doing my own hair & nails, getting a wardrobe from the thrift store and forgoing paper towels. Where are you from?

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

I don’t make a lot of income on this blog, and it has definitely decreased recently as I’ve reduced my hours spent blogging. We didn’t eliminate eating out completely, but just cutting back the splurge to once a week drastically reduced how much we spent. Also, we both have side hustles.

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Nicoles Nickels

JANUARY 13, 2013

This was a good week for both of us – we didn’t eat out at all and I even passed up pizza during a lunch meeting at work in favor of my Cheesy Homestyle Potatoes lunch! Weight loss this week: 1.8 Total weight loss since start of program: 17.5 We are both just chugging along with our Nutrisystem!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 2, 2012

After reading books, blogs, magazines, and paying attention to the nutrition labels found on the foods we were buying, we quickly became horrified at what we found. On my blog I recently announced The China Study Diet & Fitness Challenge that my wife and I are undergoing. You may be shocked what you see.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 28, 2022

My budget has gone up quite a bit from when I first started blogging. As my kids have grown into teenagers who eat as much as adults, I spend about $800-1000/month–this includes anything I buy at the grocery store, so it includes paper and cleaning products. There’s a reason why menu planning is #1 on this list.

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Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 5, 2015

After 2 years of determination we decided that we would take a month off and with any of our extra earnings splurge fun activities with the kids, eat out and go on lots of dates:). You can read more about Jessica’s debt free story on her blog. One of the first things we did is buy a swing set for our kids with cash!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2012

My Multiple Incomes: Blogging and Freedom of Speech – A look at where your freedom of speech ends when you blog. The Debt Princess: The Kool-Aid Effect: The Relationship Between the Poor & Nutrition – A look into how the working poor are eating unhealthy. At first, I thought I made a typo along the way.

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Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

My budget has gone up over the years from when I first started blogging. As my kids have grown into a teen and tween who eat as much as adults, I spend about $700/month–this includes anything I buy at the grocery store, so it includes paper and cleaning products. There’s a reason why menu planning is #1 on this list.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I pointed out the multitude of new blogs related to saving money, being frugal, getting debt under control and learning about finances. Eating out or going to a movie were once a year events. We especially never put anything consumable (like gas, food, eating out, movies and etc) on a credit card.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2011

blogs at Modern Tightwad and is most content being at home with her husband and dog, writing about ways to make the life you love, the life you can afford. A family of two spending $40 on eating out once a week will spend $2000 a year. One of my favorite ways to pass a day is cooking from scratch.

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The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 22, 2024

Even if we don’t end up using all the food we buy, it’s cheaper than eating out. Thank you, Kristen, for all you do with your blog! What is something you wish more people knew? I wish people knew that a lot of being frugal involves experimenting.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

But there is no way you are going to give up cable, the cell phone, eating out or your gym membership. And, how did you get out of it? Guest Post Author Bio: This is a guest post from Andrew Wang, who blogs about how to make money. Look at your part of the situation and move forward. You won’t make any sacrifices.

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The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Frugal Girl is one of the few blogs whose URL I have memorized, so I’ve never missed an entry! days I was there – I only needed to eat out for 2 dinners during the whole trip. Oh, I think it’s been nearly 15 years now! How did you get interested in saving money?

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 17, 2018

You can only cut so much from a budget, so to increase our cash flow, we’ll need to earn extra income by growing our small business and growing my blog. I’d like 2018 to be the year that we clean out our clutter. We will need to cut back on dining out, but it is unrealistic for me to say we won’t eat at restaurants this year.

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Family Balance Sheet

JULY 9, 2015

She also started a blog. There are things we had to do that made us look weird: home school, skip eating out as much with family, doing my own hair & nails, getting a wardrobe from the thrift store and forgoing paper towels. Eating out daily will add up. Shannon made crafts and sold them on Etsy.

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Family Balance Sheet

MAY 27, 2015

She blogs about living a fabuLESS life at Snyders Tell All. I also blog at Snyders Tell All. Using coupons for eating out. Today’s Debt Free Story is from Olivia. Tell us about you and your family. Where are you from? What do you and your spouse do for a living? What are your hobbies? I hope we get to meet him.

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JUNE 2, 2016

That meant no vacations, no new clothes, no eating out, nothing. To be more precise, I started writing on a freelance basis for website owners, and I also launched a handful of blogs myself. If it wasn’t absolutely critical, I didn’t buy it.

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