Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2011

One of my favorite ways to pass a day is cooking from scratch. There’s something incredibly fulfilling about plunging my hands into dough, and smelling fresh food cooking in our oven. When my family is at home, and we’re all tired, a warm meal on a cold day can revive us all. Cooking as a financial tool?

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Cooking Cooking At Home Friends And Family Sale Budgeting 133

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

We all know that cooking at home is better for both our physical and fiscal health. I get it, when you get home after a long day, you just want to sit down, relax, and have the food come to you. But if you’re going to have any chance of breaking the “grab and go/ delivery” habit, you’re gonna have to get excited about eating in.

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Homemade Food and Wine Cooking Cooking At Home 180

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. We mowed the grass, made our clothes, cleaned house, cooked , and fixed broken stuff. I cut the family’s hair. Of course, we also tried to maximize our income.

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Thrifty Garage Spendthrift Fair-Trade 213

Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

She hosts a You Tube channel, The Former Mrs. Jones , where she vlogs about budgeting, debt free living, and family life. Tell us about you and your family. After that, we paid off the remaining $20,000 of debt over the course of 9 months. While we were paying off our debt, my husband and I both had a realization about our home.

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Debt Debt Free Bath and Body Works Gas 100