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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

Family Balance Sheet

As a family, we are looking forward to camping trips, a week at the beach, and cookouts with friends. It’s a helpful visual for everyone in my family as we anticipate our summer fun. How much is summer going to cost you and your family? After a long winter, are you dreaming of blue skies and sunny days?

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20 Fun (& Budget-Friendly) Christmas Activities

Family Balance Sheet

It is so easy for the month to get lost in the commercialism and the frenzied pace and while it is fun to receive a gift, my husband and I want the month to be focused on our faith and our family. This month, don’t forget to slow down, create memories and traditions, and most of all enjoy the season with your family.

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Summer Fun Guide 2019

Family Balance Sheet

As a family, we are looking forward to camping trips and a week at the beach. We bought the family a summer pass to Hersheypark for a Christmas gift, something we’ve never done before. We bought the family a summer pass to Hersheypark for a Christmas gift, something we’ve never done before. Need some summer cash?

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Free or Inexpensive Holiday Activities

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

These are lovely ways to celebrate the season, but at $20 per person and up they can add up fast if you are trying to enjoy the activity with family. These are lovely ways to celebrate the season, but at $20 per person and up they can add up fast if you are trying to enjoy the activity with family. Tree lighting ceremonies.

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Meet a Reader | Midwest Andrea

The Frugal Girl

I also love to visit family (all our family is between 2 and 4 hours away) and friends, bake, and play board games. Playing board games with friends I really don’t like crafts, despite years of attempting scrapbooking, knitting, etc, but I do like advising on my fiancé’s woodworking projects. The mug shelf 2.

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9 Inexpensive Activities To Keep Your Kids Entertained This Summer

Family Balance Sheet

Check out your local library and book stores for their summer reading programs. At our library, the kids can earn small prizes, such as free coupons for pizza and ice cream for reading books through out the summer. Local towns, libraries, malls and fire halls also host carnivals and festivals as fundraisers. Host a theme party.

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Ways to Save Money in December

Family Balance Sheet

Check the events calendar of your community, library, mall, and places of worship. Plan your menu around these sales, and stock up for your pantry and/or freezer. We give restaurant gift cards to extended family members as gifts and try to find the best bonus deals. 7 Ways to Save Money in December. Gift Card Freebies.