Couponing 101

JUNE 14, 2019

Instead of buying bowls, we buy a bag of paper cups that we use for drinking as well as for cereal in the mornings when we travel. For those times that you will want to eat out, see what’s available at Restaurant.com ahead of time. Rachel is a work-at-home, homeschooling mom of three precious little ones.

Travel 85

Travel Frugal Hotel Food and Drink 85

Family Balance Sheet

JULY 13, 2016

They write a personal blog, Where Love Takes Us. We won’t tell you what it had profited, but its done VERY well – it all started with a small idea that we could chew off and God blessed it. Well that’s not in the budget so you better sell something on craigslist… Lamp sold, go get a pedi now. Where are you from?

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Finds Home 100

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!

Green And Frugal 206

Green And Frugal Home and Garden Lunch Lunches 206

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Stop Spending, BUT still live well: 1 – Declare a “Needs Only” month. How much can you save just by cutting out non-essential spending? Challenge yourself to question your purchases and spending through out the month and see how much you can save. The neighbor kids are doing quite well on my street.

Emergency Fund 100

Emergency Fund Money Finds Friends And Family Sale 100

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. I would like to share my week one progress of losing 13.8

Food and Drink 55

Food and Drink Meals Desserts Lunch 55

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 28, 2022

If you are struggling with the rising grocery prices or maybe you need to make room for your family’s growing appetites, take a look at the following list and see what changes you can make to cut your grocery bill…and still eat really well! My budget has gone up quite a bit from when I first started blogging.

Saving Money 130

Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 130

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. Well, not really. 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? We bought a house.

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Finds Goals 100

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. Communicating well and communicating often has made talking about. Then I wrote a series about it on my blog. We take out a small amount.

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Friends And Family Sale Budgeting 100

Nicoles Nickels

JANUARY 13, 2013

I am very proud of how well he is doing! 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! I am still rolling on pretty well as I prepare to enter my fourth week on Nutrisystem.

Food and Drink 71

Food and Drink Food and Wine Lunch Lunches 71

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?

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Las Vegas Finance 100

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.). It’s all about living with the choices you make, and changing what isn’t working vs. telling yourself “oh well, but I can’t do that because __.”

Debt 236

Debt Debt Free Pay Off Debt Financial Goals 236

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

If you need to find some wiggle room in your budget, or combat the rising grocery prices, or maybe make room for your family’s growing appetites, take a look at the following list and see what changes you can make to reduce what you’re spending on groceries…and still eat really well! Thaw as needed. a pound vs. $3.99/lb

Saving Money 113

Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 113

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

Our business was doing very well, and we were excited about the opportunity to own a property outside of our home. 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. Everything looked great on paper. What could possibly go wrong? .”

Debt 130

Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 2, 2012

While I’ve thought a lot about our personal shopping and eating behaviors, I haven’t been able to figure out why so many people eat the way they do: (1) do we just not care what we’re doing to our bodies or (2) are we just too uneducated to understand the impact our decisions have on our well-being ?

Eating Out 188

Eating Out Meals Health Cooking 188

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. Peggy: Well, probably some of the same ones being espoused now (maybe our kids did pick up on some of our examples!). Peggy: Well, we did everything ourselves. Well here are some.

Thrifty 213

Thrifty Garage Spendthrift Fair-Trade 213

The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 22, 2024

We have a lot of free parks and nature reserves for hiking, and a wonderful library system that does free Inter Library Loans as well as lots of e-books. Also, we’re by a military base, so it’s a little easier to find houses to rent if you know when people will be PCSing out and needing to rent out their homes.

Rent 180

Rent Son Frugal Home and Garden 180

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. Well I’ll let you decide. Penge Snak!:

Credit Cards 220

Credit Cards Credit Finance Personal Finance 220

The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Brian and me at the Sears Tower Having our first child just one month after our first wedding anniversary was NOT in the plan, but so far it’s worked out well! The Frugal Girl is one of the few blogs whose URL I have memorized, so I’ve never missed an entry! Oh, I think it’s been nearly 15 years now!

Kids and Family 189

Kids and Family Parenting Cars Car 189

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. What We Won’t Give Up: My motto has always been “living well on less” and now it will be “living well on (even) less”.

Financial Goals 113

Financial Goals Goals 2018 Debt 113

Family Balance Sheet

MAY 27, 2015

She blogs about living a fabuLESS life at Snyders Tell All. I also blog at Snyders Tell All. But I do realize some things happen that we don’t plan for as well. We made a plan and it ended up being God’s will as well. Using coupons for eating out. Today’s Debt Free Story is from Olivia.

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Pay Off Debt Finds 100

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 2, 2016

Here in the UK gurus like Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman aren’t too well-known. Personally I believe that getting out of debt is as much about psychology as it is about systems and processes. Many personal finance bloggers talk about having a “no spend week” – well basically I had a “no spend” five years!

Debt 100

Debt Finds Debt Free Pay Off Debt 100