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What We Ate this Week on our Budget 05.29.15

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This series helps me stay on top of our grocery spending and currently our monthly budget is $500 for my family of 4. This Week’s Dinners: Saturday: We traveled to Corning, NY to visit the Corning Museum of Glass with my kids’ Girl Scout troop. I’ll write about the trip in a few weeks.

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Our 2023 Financial Goals

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By planning our expenses each month to predict cash flow, I hope to avoid impulsive purchases and reduce some spending. After our mortgage, grocery spending is our next largest expense. At the end of 2022, I totaled the year’s worth of groceries and was blown away by the number.

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10 Smart Ways to Become Debt Free

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Amanda and Daniel wanted to travel and they realized that their debt was preventing them from seeing the world. They Managed their Grocery Spending. I have always stressed that groceries is one of the easiest budget categories to reduce. Carrie was starting over after her first marriage ended.

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