Family Balance Sheet
OCTOBER 2, 2022
Garden Harvest. I planted a small garden this year: 2 tomato plants, 1 cucumber, 1 pepper plant that sadly didn’t make it, and 1 butternut squash. I have toned down my gardening in recent years. At one time I planted quite a bit, but weeds overtook my garden and turned my favorite hobby into a stressful mess.
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 6, 2022
We’ve seen higher grocery and fuel bills lately, so we’re upping our frugal game to help the budget. I have been doing my grocery shopping at a different GIANT store and I’m finding that they always have a lot of marked-down meat. Plasma Donations: $420. Here are five ways that I saved money this month.
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Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
For starters, I didn’t donate plasma this month and that is usually my biggest source of extra cash. I filled two sheet pans and added some onion, salt, pepper, and basil from my garden. My August Grocery Clearance finds: I found lots of tea marked down to about 90 cents a box. But in the end, $155 is still a gift.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 1, 2021
Recently I tried something completely new to me and earned $1000 in less than 3 months by donating plasma–see the details in #14. 2 – Reduce your grocery spending without sacrificing quality. Do you know how much you spend on groceries each month? Groceries is the easiest budget category to overspend.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 6, 2016
In an effort over the years to save money at the grocery store and reduce our waste, I’ve found reusable alternatives to many paper products that we were using. It’s easy to make the switch, and with these items not on my grocery list, I’ve made more room in my grocery budget for actual food. Conserve water.
Family Balance Sheet
JULY 25, 2013
That number includes gifts for our kids, extended family members, teachers, friends, neighbors, bus drivers, service people, our Christmas cards, stamps, and our donations towards the Salvation Army''s Adopt-a-Family program. With all of the vegetables coming out of the garden, August should be the easiest month of the year to have one.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JANUARY 14, 2015
Before throwing away old clothing, I snip the buttons off and remove working zippers (unless I’m donating the item). Now we use them as chip bag fasteners as well as to hold the garden mesh netting on the chicken wire circles that surround my blueberry bushes – to keep the birds and squirrels from eating the ripening berries.
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