Saving Everyday
OCTOBER 27, 2023
My niece goes to Goodwill and buys what I can only describe as bags of junk, and she makes a full-time income selling it on eBay. My son has been doing this for about a year now and averages a few hundred dollars a week. Dining out, fast food drive-throughs, and Starbucks all have to stop. It’s just easy.
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 22, 2024
I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? For 20 or so years I’ve been homeschooling my kids, and am now down to about 1 1/2 (one full-time homeschooler, and one doing College Credit Plus with some support).
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Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
My husband is an extremely hard worker as he works and goes to school full time. Here I was, leaning against his $20,000 truck, while my $15,000 car is sitting in the drive way of our $150,000 house, and through all this our 8 month old son was sleeping in his $400 crib, and I didn’t have $20 bucks of my own money to get gas.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
APRIL 18, 2017
He felt he had to keep it to make sure that I could stay home with the babies and that we had food and shelter. Needless to say, our relationship suffered, his health suffered and now he has a list of regrets about not being the father, husband, son, brother and friend he feels he should have been. Plus, he felt trapped in the job.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 1, 2015
We’re a family of five, including, me, my wife and 3 children: 15 year old fraternal twins and a 12 year old son. I work full time in IT and my wife works part time in retail. Little things like coffee, lunches, fast food etc add up and can kill your budget. What do you and your spouse do for a living?
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
My degree is in mechanical engineering, but I’m just starting a transition to nursing – before I got pregnant with my son, I was working as a nursing assistant while my husband finished grad school, and planning to go on to nursing school. For me, being in the kitchen and making food for people is an act of love.
The Frugal Girl
MARCH 4, 2024
Our son is 29 and biological. My biggest financial regret is the amount of money we spent on restaurant meals from the time we were married and both working full time to when we had kids. He says we were busy building the house and our careers and it was money well spent because it freed up our time.
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