Making Small Steps Toward Big Savings
Baked rigatoni is one of those dinners that’s a go-to if I need a meal to stretch out over multiple days. Last week Bookworm has piano lessons on Tuesday and his Band Concert on Wednesday. That’s two days I need to be out of the house and back downtown no sooner than the boys got off… [Read More]
After feeling off kilter the last few months, November was finally a month that I could feel proud of. I was making far better choices when it came to our budget than I have in the last few months, and had made a few extra payments on our snowball beyond just above the monthly minimum…. [Read More]
In grad school, and even back as far as our undergrad years, Tuna Helper was one of our favorite meals that could be made fast. Nights that we had no more than gotten home and one of us had to be back out the door for night class, and Bookworm still had to eat, Tuna… [Read More]
I’ll be honest, before we started budgeting, we had no savings. Well, we had maybe $600 to $1,000 in a savings account, but it wasn’t anything that would realistically and responsibly get us through an emergency. Any “emergency” we did have {like car repairs or large medical bills}, went on a credit card. In the end,… [Read More]
December in our house is a hectic craze before the holidays come. The peaceful schedule we had in November is nothing but a fond memory until January. It’s hectic times like these I’m grateful for monthly meal planning. It saves time, money, and ensures that we’re not eating the same meals each week. If you’re looking… [Read More]
I talk a lot on here about paying off our debt. Up until not long ago, I was breaking down our entire month’s budget by what we spent in each and every category. But it became tedious to do each month when the categories were so similar. It was then that I made the decision… [Read More]
If you’ve been with me for a while, you’ll know that hands down my favorite meal is soup. I’ve posted numerous soups on the site. But when I can get that soup to be made from things I’ve already got on hand? Somehow it tastes even better! That’s exactly what happened with this easy vegetable… [Read More]
Occasionally on our debt free journey things go off the rails. Whether it’s because we had a month that we had unexpected car repairs, or because I hit a funk over the summer, getting off track with our budget happens from time to time. But the end game of being completely free from debt is… [Read More]
This year was a really weird year for our garden. Most of what we grew was wilting in the excess rain we had, but our peppers were going strong until the end of the season. But there was one crop that didn’t seem to be affected by all the rain, and that was our peppers…. [Read More]
This month was an eye-opening month. After trying to find a routine to get back into the swing of things, we had some expenses come up this month that I wasn’t prepared for. While I could concern myself with it, I’m trying to learn from it. With that said, here’s our October 2018 debt update…. [Read More]
