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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

Family Balance Sheet

If you haven’t already done so, NOW is the time to start mapping out and budgeting for summer. To help you plan your summer, I have added TWO summer freebies to my subscribers’ only page: a 2022 printable summer calendar and a summer budget spreadsheet. Budget your summer fun! Our Trip to the Shenandoah Valley, VA.

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Don’t Dig a Money Pit in Your Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Instead, you broke your budget buying every gadget from the big box gardening store – not to mention the pricier mature plants and the chemicals to make them grow faster and produce more. Our grocery budget dropped by over $40 per week in the third year of my gardening efforts and it gets better every year.

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How to Save Cash and Your Health With a Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

As time went by, there would be less to buy, especially if you employed some cost-saving strategies, and so you would save much more on your fresh fruit and vegetable budget. The Contribution to the Planet One cost-saving strategy you can use in your veggie garden is to make your own compost. I mentioned ‘ food miles ’ earlier.

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Summer Fun Guide 2019

Family Balance Sheet

Budget Your Summer Fun! Start writing a budget today if you haven’t started already. This Summer Budget Planner is included in my Family Budget Spreadsheets package. Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Ideas: Summer activities can be found all around you. How to Start & Maintain a Backyard Compost.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter Was Included in Many Carnivals Over the Past Few Weeks

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Step Away from the Mall included my post, How to Have Fun on a Budget in the Financial Simplicity Carnival as did Afford Anything who hosted the Totally Money Carnival #56. Many thanks to Debt Free by Thirty who hosted the Festival of Frugality #325 for including Marie’s post, Frugal Family Fun in the American Midwest.

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Living Off the Land – My First Paw Paw

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I used a grapefruit spoon to coax them out and then put them aside for the compost heap. 10 Ways to Add Extra Produce Into Your Family’s Diet The Peach Tree Battle Using Nature’s Bounty Learn How To Eat Healthy On A Budget 7 Ways to Improve Your Diet. Then I slit the fruit lengthwise and twisted the two halves apart.

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P.E.P. for the Week of February 14-18/11-Planning Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Sustainable Personal Finance talks to us about the benefits of kitchen compost. We have an indoor compost bin as well as three outdoor bins. For veggie scraps and such, I try to use them to make stock so they don’t even hit the compost pile. I like the idea of helping them out with setting up a budget. Great ideas.

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