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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. Budget items we are temporarily stopping for now: EVERYTHING ELSE! What changes have you made to your family’s budget? More family time!

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Grocery Budget Challenge | March Meeting

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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 wins in March: I stayed within our budget of $450.

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Grocery Budget Challenge – April Meeting

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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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9 Fun Family Indoor Activities

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Take some time on those occasions where everyone is home to turn off the screens and bring the family together with these budget-friendly indoor activities. 9 Fun & Budget-Friendly Indoor Activities. Have a Fancy Dinner In. Fancy restaurants aren’t always in the budget, but you can have a fancy dinner in your own home.

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Things to Do When You are Unplugged

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Cook Dinner Together. My husband and I rarely made dinner at all, and we still don’t cook every night, but cooking together is a great way to connect. This is so much fun (it’s like imagining what it would be like to win the lottery) and it also may help you achieve those goals.

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Small Money Mistakes That Have Big Consequences

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Don’t forget to enter to win an iPad 3 here at PET. Not Having a Budget I know, you’ve heard it all before but have you taken action on this one yet? A budget provides you with a financial roadmap to get to where you want to be in life. A budget gives it to you plain and simple – the good, the bad and the ugly.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Make it a game and be creative when looking for money within your budget and finding new ways to earn extra money. Groceries is the easiest budget category to overspend. It was an escape from the office, but it was eating up my budget…see what I did there! 6 – Eat dinner at home. 9 – Collect your change.