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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

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How I’m managing our family budget during the Pandemic: We pay ourselves at the beginning of each month, so when this crisis started in mid-March, we were covered for the month. We paid off our last non-mortgage debt in September and have since sent that loan’s monthly payment to our mortgage principal.

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Grocery Budget Challenge | September & October

Family Balance Sheet

The Goal of the Grocery Budget Challenge is to be creative with our meal planning and grocery shopping so that we do not over-spend. We don’t want to make our families miserable with bland meals, boring snacks, and not enough food in the house, but we must stay on budget. How Did We Do in September & October.

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Grocery Budget Challenge | July & August

Family Balance Sheet

The Goal of the Grocery Budget Challenge is to be creative with our meal planning and grocery shopping so that we do not over-spend. We don’t want to make our families miserable with bland meals, boring snacks, and not enough food in the house, but we must stay on budget. My budget is $450. September’s Assignments.

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Christmas Savings Club | August September 2019

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This should cover my tentative 2019 Christmas budget that I based on what we spent in 2018. I’m challenging myself to find the cash outside of our budget. I also earned $20 from Ibotta and $7 from Ebates, and found $23 within our May budget. In June, I was rather uncreative and pulled the $100 from our monthly budget.

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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 11.20.15

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A neighbor gave me several green peppers back in September, so I chopped them all up and put them in a freezer bag. Every week I share what we ate on our budget. Our montly grocery budget for my family of 4 is $500. I used those chopped peppers in Monday nights dinner. I found two packages of sausages marked down 50% off.

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Christmas Savings Club | November 2019

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This should cover my tentative 2019 Christmas budget that I based on what we spent in 2018. I challenged myself to find the cash outside of our budget. However by late summer, I found it easier to set aside the money directly from our budget. I also earned $20 from Ibotta and $7 from Ebates, and found $23 within our May budget.

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Walmart’s Summer Steak BBQ on a Budget Review and Giveaway

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Name of Product: Walmart’s Summer Steak BBQ on a Budget. Armed with my $25 giftcard I was able to score some great deals and host a BBQ on a Budget for Labor Day! I added some sweet corn, prepared coleslaw and a large can of baked beans and came in at under the $25 I had budgeted! Price of Product: affordable!