Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 26, 2014

There’s no point in using more money than you need to. Eating out is usually a large expense for most people. If you stop eating out for four weeks, you may have as much as $100 to $300 set aside for gifts, depending on how frequently you eat out. Estimating and Reducing Holiday Spending.

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Holiday Emergency Fund Homemade Eating Out 169

Saving Everyday

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this article, we’re sharing our top tips to help you save money when traveling without sacrificing a thing! If you feel like a vacation is out of your reach, these tried-and-true ways to save money when traveling will help you get there without breaking the bank! Some people see traveling as a luxury, but I see it differently.

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Saving Money Money Travel Hotel 52

Family Balance Sheet

JULY 13, 2016

Then we re-took the class and never looked back. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? Drinking water when you eat out. We eat steak all year long (for a fairly good price). And we order chicken when we eat out (because steak in restaurants isn’t as good as Drew’s grilling).

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Debt Debt Free Finds Home 100

Saving Everyday

AUGUST 1, 2022

In this post, we’ll discuss realistic ways you can save on groceries at home and at the store! How to save on groceries at home. Shop your own home. You can use pre-printed grocery lists to keep inventory and add extra items on the side. If you’re making chili, make a triple batch and freeze some.

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Groceries Grocery Food and Drink Saving 52

Saving Everyday

AUGUST 1, 2022

In this post, we’ll discuss realistic ways you can save on groceries at home and at the store! How to save on groceries at home. Shop your own home. You can use pre-printed grocery lists to keep inventory and add extra items on the side. When you get home from grocery shopping, prep everything you can.

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Groceries Grocery Food and Drink Saving 52

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 30, 2014

I know grocery shopping doesn’t sound like a lot of fun when you go away on vacation (you’re probably dreaming about not having to do that!), Even buying pre-made salads and entrees at the grocery store is substantially cheaper than eating out. Grocery Shop. Daily Deal Sites. Beware of the fine print, though.

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Saving Money Money Food New York City 187

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 10, 2013

Whether you''re just dipping your toes in or looking for more recipes to add to your rotation, this collection of ebooks is both inspiring and practical, with more than 200 recipes plus inspirational stories from people who have transformed their health through a paleo diet and tips for eating out without cheating.

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Ice Cream Eating Out Recipes Desserts 100

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

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A person, trying to help a family member figure out how to pay taxes on their home and thus be able to keep possession of the fully paid off home suggested that the family member take in a roommate to earn some extra money. Influencing a home owner association to build up a reserve fund. Possibly, but not likely.

Real Estate 183

Real Estate Money Kids and Family Budgeting 183

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Skip the pizza and constant eating out. Buy Used Textbooks. New editions of texts are churned out quicker than the old editions can be read, and the new prints rarely offer more than a fresh cover and sometimes an extra chapter. Skip the coffee shop and make your own at home. Smart Grocery Shopping.

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College Saving Money Money Student 203

Family Balance Sheet

JULY 16, 2015

Dining Out. We used to spend hundreds of dollars a month going out to eat at restaurants. In fact, there was a time that I rarely cooked over the weekends, because we ate out so often. Restaurants can be a huge drain on any budget, but there are ways to enjoy a meal out without spending a lot of money.

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Budgeting Budget Thrifting Thrift Stores 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

We thought eating in restaurants was a main attraction of travel because you get to try local foods. Even when eating out on the cheap, we were still spending hundreds of dollars on food. We began cooking all of our meals at home. When we traveled, we packed a cooler full of food to eat on vacation and while on the road.

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Travel Family Hotel Making 196

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If you’re new to writing a budget, read: How to Start a Budget (and be successful at it!). Use up all of those odd ingredients. 4 – Use up the products in the bathroom/cleaning closet before purchasing more. I also have a laundry room with enough cleaning products to last us a very long time. Go sledding.

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February Frugal Financial Goals Budgeting 100

Couponing 101

JANUARY 22, 2019

It will encourage you to limit the times you eat out and help you save the food you’re already making instead of throwing it away. Here are some of my favorite ways to use these containers: Homemade baby food. Not to mention the added benefit of being able to control exactly what your baby is eating.

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Storage Food Homemade School Lunch 58

Family Balance Sheet

MAY 14, 2013

Using only cash while on vacation will force you to question each purchase, especially when it comes to spending money on unnecessary souvenirs--you won''t want to waste your cash. We also don’t want to come home to a credit card bill. For dinner, we''ll plan to eat in on 5 nights and eat out 2 nights.

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Vacation Saving Money Money Food and Drink 153

Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 5, 2016

” Dining out is a fun treat, but when you eat out too often it gets old and my sweet girl wanted a home cooked dinner. We’re always looking for new weekly meal plan ideas. How I Use Pinterest for Meal Planning. I don’t blame her. Please share in the comments. 11 Simple Meal Planning Tips.

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Budgeting Budget Home and Garden Daughter 100

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 1, 2021

Are you paying too much for home/auto insurance, cable, internet, cell? 4 – Skip the AM drive-thru and eat breakfast at home. If you find yourself hitting the drive-thru on your way to work, start making your breakfast and brewing your coffee at home. 6 – Eat dinner at home.

Emergency Fund 130

Emergency Fund Money Finds Friends And Family Sale 130

Family Balance Sheet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

She and her husband paid off $147,000 in debt–including their home. Tell us about you and your family. We live in metro Phoenix, in a 70s tract house that we’ve been gradually re-doing. About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.)

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Debt Debt Free Pay Off Debt Financial Goals 236

For the Mommas

JULY 29, 2014

With crochet you can create not only useful items, but projects that will become family heirlooms. You’ll soon be a pro at choosing the right ingredients and portion sizes to make healthy decisions at home or when eating out. They’re taking things to another level. Will Minecraft ever be the same?

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Crochet Recipes Re-use Free Stuff 51

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 28, 2022

If you are struggling with the rising grocery prices or maybe you need to make room for your family’s growing appetites, take a look at the following list and see what changes you can make to cut your grocery bill…and still eat really well! These are strategies I use weekly to help keep my grocery bill in line with our budget.

Saving Money 130

Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 130

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I have done morning exercise tapes, dvds and etc in my home every day since 1984. While I worked outside the home, I usually did a half hour to 45 minutes. While working I either walked at lunch or worked out at the downtown gym. That said, I don’t eat out more than 10 – 12 times a year.

Food and Drink 188

Food and Drink Quiz United States Food and Wine 188

Family Balance Sheet

MAY 6, 2020

What got us through financially? I am totally paraphrasing the year, but had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive. I still use my spreadsheet to this day! I decided to use Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps as a guide and I wrote our first Debt Freedom Plan.

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Debt Emergency Fund 2007 2020 130

The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 22, 2024

Today we’re meeting a reader who is an artist, a homeschooler, a boy-mom, and a renter by choice. Tell us a little about yourself I’m Karen A. Clark, our cat, the day after we brought him home from the shelter. Clark, our cat, the day after we brought him home from the shelter. Hello, everyone!

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Rent Son Frugal Home and Garden 181

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

We use an online account like, Capital One 360 (my referral link). Are you paying too much for home/auto insurance, cable, internet? 4 – Skip the AM drive thru and eat breakfast at home. If you find yourself hitting the drive thru on your way to work, start making your breakfast and brewing your coffee at home.

Emergency Fund 100

Emergency Fund Money Finds Friends And Family Sale 100

Family Balance Sheet

AUGUST 5, 2015

Hi, We’re the Gann Fam! I am a stay at home mom to 3 kiddos and a cockapoo named Otis. We live a pretty busy lives and when given free weekends at home we love spending time at home on our little farm. We made the decision to tackle our debt back at our home church in Chattanooga. What kind of debt was it?

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Finds Finance 100

Saving Everyday

APRIL 12, 2013

Line a large cookie sheet with foil (I use Reynolds Non-stick Pan Lining Paper ). You could even crank the oven up to 450-475 to get the charred edges, especially if you’re cooking for a shorter amount of time. I almost always have to ask for my vegetables to be cooked more when we eat out. 1 Teaspoon – Salt.

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Ovens Recipes Cooking Reynolds 94

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

If you need to find some wiggle room in your budget, or combat the rising grocery prices, or maybe make room for your family’s growing appetites, take a look at the following list and see what changes you can make to reduce what you’re spending on groceries…and still eat really well! You’ll be thankful later.

Saving Money 113

Saving Money Groceries Grocery Money 113

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 20, 2017

our home with a GREAT interest rate so we are okay with it. burden for us at first were the medical bills. out and it gave us the momentum we needed to focus on all of our other. We committed to using a cash budget, and we talked daily at. When the second loan was paid off, we used everything to go towards.

Debt 100

Debt Debt Free Friends And Family Sale Budgeting 100

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

Our business was doing very well, and we were excited about the opportunity to own a property outside of our home. With that much debt, we needed some go big or go home heavy hitters that would make a big impact on debt reduction. Financially speaking, he focuses on building the business and I focus on managing our home and finances.

Debt 130

Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130

The Frugal Girl

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tell us a little about yourself I am in my mid-forties, originally from Germany, but now living in Sweden – after many years in Asia. After many years with only odd jobs or jobs without many prospects, I have finally had the chance to build a career in my new home country, working in life science.

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Green And Frugal Home and Garden Lunch Lunches 207

Nicoles Nickels

JANUARY 27, 2013

This was another week where I had some days away from home but this time I stayed on track, pretty much. I just had salad and veggies but I know there were a lot of hidden calories and fat in the salad dressing as well as whatever was used to cook the veggies. This week I’ll be home all week and on track 100%!

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Fuel Food and Drink Cake Wellness 79

The Frugal Girl

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Today, we’re meeting a reader who has managed to live for 2.5 Tell us a little about yourself When asked the question “Where are you from? My interest in frugality is less about saving money specifically, and more about making good use of the resources I have. years with no car (and two small kids!). We lived for 2.5

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Kids and Family Parenting Cars Car 191

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

This new strategy had us looking in the same direction with regards to our financial future and my husband was on board. We are using Dave Ramsey’s snowball method and I’m proud to say that since 2013, we’ve paid off 4 business loans totaling almost $75,000. It is now a home equity loan with a very low 2.75% interest.

Debt 100

Debt 2017 Student 2016 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For so long, we plodded along with next to nothing while our neighbors were running up their charge cards and using home equity loans to take vacations. 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. Peggy: Oh yes!

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Thrifty Garage Spendthrift Fair-Trade 213

Family Balance Sheet

JULY 9, 2015

Olivia wanted to stay home with her children on her husband’s teacher salary. Acadia’s advice is to be creative and think about your talents and gifts and how you could use them to make extra money. Daniel took on an extra job doing support work for an online company that he could do from home.

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Debt Free Debt Budgeting Budget 100

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 8, 2018

I discovered the term, Zero-Based Budget, when my husband and I took Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University home course many years ago. We have been using this system ever since. I highly suggest using a separate paper calendar from your normal planner to eliminate any confusion. lined paper. calculator.

Budgeting 133

Budgeting Budget Financial Goals Goals 133

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 17, 2018

We blew through our health savings account, and now need to save another $10k so we’re not caught off guard if another emergency were to happen. This will take us most of the year. I don’t want to use the term extreme frugality, because that sounds absolutely horrible. Save a starter Home Emergency Fund.

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Financial Goals Goals 2018 Debt 113