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Summer Staycation Ideas: Enjoy the U.S. on a Budget

Family Balance Sheet

Reno (& Northern), Nevada ~ Premeditated Leftovers. Erie, Pennsylvania ~ Growing Kids Ministry. Will you be staying local or traveling far? Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas ~ Kansas City Mamas. Southern Missouri ~ Getting Freedom. Omaha, Nebraska ~ Family Fun in Omaha. Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York ~ Anns’ Entitled Life.

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s $29 Food Stamp Budget – I pay $30 a week no food stamps

Coupons Do Work

My daughter does competitive cheerleading and that itself is $3K a year (not including travel). I buy them on sale, with the exception the kids feet grow when there is no sale (for gym shoes). watch my video below: When I was growing up, my grandmother would make two-three meals a week and the rest of the week?

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Chit Chat: 06.17.18

Family Balance Sheet

We used gift cards on 3 nights, ate leftovers on 1 night, and grilled burgers on the last night. I also had a large vertical trellis for growing squash, cantaloupe, and watermelons. We want to travel to Disney and Hawaii. We want to travel in an RV when we retire. We want to be debt free.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

Growing up we tended to be a paycheck-to-paycheck family. We also love travel and plan on doing much more of that when we retire. International travel when I was in high school really shaped the course of my life and I wanted to share that with my boys. How did you get interested in saving money?

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

We also like to have enough means to travel and visit family and friends, so being frugal in some areas helps us be generous in others. Also, growing our own food. I do want to try growing things in pots, though–like tomatoes and herbs. I’d like to grow our own catnip for Mr. Clark! I make bone broth now!

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