Earlier this year, I set a goal to pay off $23,000 as we worked towards becoming debt free. Paying down $23,000 may or may not seem like a lot to pay depending on where you are in your steps to financial freedom. We just started taking our debt free trip seriously at the beginning of this year because we are…
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If you’ve ever had a month {or even a few months} where you had a failed budget, you know it’s a feeling of dread. It leads to neglecting your upcoming budget, and spending money without care because you’re no longer in a frugal mindset. And so starts another viscous cycle of falling off track, and possibly wracking up more debt….
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Cheddar broccoli soup is one of our family favorites. I can’t remember why we started making it, but I do remember it was way back in our grad school days when recipes on the internet were becoming fairly new, and AllRecipes was the “thing”. We had to hunt around for one we liked, which means we tried a LOT we…
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I don’t know about any of you, but I can always count on our family to be sick at certain times of the year. Thanksgiving for instance. At some point over the Thanksgiving vacation, someone gets sick. All out, throwing up sick. For the last four years it has been Monkey, but this year it was Lady Bug. And it…
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Here’s what I take into consideration when I make our monthly meal plan. We’re a family of 5. Hubs and I eat smaller adult portions, Bookworm {10} eats a smaller portion than Hubs and I. Then there’s Master {6} and Lady Bug {3}. When you combine their portions, it’s about a portion size for Hubs or I. When I make our…
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