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5 Budget Destinations for May

Shereen Travels Cheap

Here are 5 places that can help you do more with a smaller budget: New Orleans, Louisiana With both Mardi Gras and the Jazz Festival (over on May 5th) both out of the way, New Orleans is heading into a quieter time, meaning you can really explore the city without a million other people. You just need to know when to go and what to do.

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Literal Champagne Travel (Even On a Beer Budget)

Shereen Travels Cheap

The smaller, boutique producers generally do everything on-site, so you can learn about their bottles from start to finish. If prosecco is more your speed, or you'd rather spend your time in Italy than France (decisions, decisions), the prosecco region is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Budget Friendly Online Clothing Sites

Couponing 101

When shopping for clothes, especially for my kids, I’m all about budget shopping. They stay in their clothes for a limited time due to how fast they grow, so luckily, budget friendly sites are popping up all over the place for children and adults. This site gives you amazing offers on workout gear and accessories.

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Creative Ways to Save Money for Travel

Shereen Travels Cheap

Most of us travel on a budget, because we have to. When you don't have a big budget, you learn to be creative, but you find there are small things you can do that can really add up, too. I like to use sites/apps like Poshmark to buy clothes at a fraction of retail. Did a moth just fly out of your wallet when you opened it?

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Children’s Music on a Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to the site Children’s Music Workshop , there are many benefits to music education including the below: Early training develops language and reasoning areas of the brain. Here are a few thoughts on giving your child access to music on a budget. She gives a step by step on her site. It sounds pretty darn good too.

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A Sweeter Way to Cook Your Budget

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I like to bake cookies, and I like to budget. I’ve failed at many budgets this way. If you Google how to make a budget, you’ll find the same boilerplate list of steps on thousands of sites. This is what I like to call the Toll House budget. It’s not that I lost my taste for the sweet, chewy goodies.

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Grocery Budget Challenge – April Meeting

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. Action Step 1 : Plan your grocery budget for May.

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