It was one year ago today that our belongings were delivered to our new home. I made a huge goal, which seemed very doable at the time, to have our stuff completely un-boxed in one month and the house set up and decorated in 1 year. We had just moved from a house I had […]
My kids were begging to carve pumpkins for Halloween, but we’re doing a no spending challenge this month. I was so tempted to go out and buy pumpkins since I had to say no to a few other things this month. After all, they’re only young for a little while and we only have so […]
When we started the No Spending Challenge for the month of October, part of the process was determining if there were things that would be an exception to the no spending rule. I chose to spend on medical bills, $50 a week on groceries, and Halloween costumes, which I would make as inexpensively as I […]
In the spirit of the No Spending Challenge we’ve been doing and because homemade Halloween costumes are one of my favorite things — okay, really I stress big time about costumes but I do love the way they always turn out — here’s a few of our favorites from past years. These costumes are NOT […]
Saving Tip: How about using a fun No Soliciting sign on the door? Let those solicitors know right up front that you’re not allowed to spend any money with them. I usually don’t buy from solicitors anyway, but it might save me some trips to the door (especially at the busy dinner hour when they […]
Saving Tip: Don’t even look at the email ads/coupons that you get from stores – too much temptation! In fact, I’m using this as a time to unsubscribe from all but a few email lists. On Saturday, I had a couple of things I would’ve gone out and bought if it wasn’t for this challenge: […]
Saving Tip: Don’t know what to make for dinner? When in a pinch, like I was tonight, instead of turning to fast food, you can turn to your own cupboards. I almost always have things on hand to make breakfast for dinner. We had pancakes and fruit salad and unlike most nights when at least […]
Because life isn’t busy enough (sarcasm!) but really because I’m always looking for ways to improve and I love a good challenge, I’m starting out another one from Living Well, Spending Less. The challenge this month is to go 31 days with no spending. We had some major medical and other unexpected expenses come up […]
Days 22-25 of the Clutter Free Challenge go together well for a single post. And since half of them were done previously and half of them were digital, there’s not too much to report on. Day 22: Home Office Day 23: Bills/Paperwork I already reports on this on the Master Bedroom day since my new […]
Here’s days 19-21 of the Clutter Free Challenge! Day 19: Children’s Paperwork/Artwork My older kids are the only ones concerned with keeping their artwork so far. But even with just 2, I found it getting overwhelming! I gave each of them a binder to keep their favorite artwork pages in. It’s worked pretty well and […]