I’ve talked about how to start budgeting here before, but how do you know whether you’re sticking to that budget? First and foremost, you need to make it a habit of coming back to your budget. But second, you need to start tracking your expenses. What Is Expense Tracking? Expense tracking is a super simple way of looking at where you…
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One thing I have been trying to do this year is to meal prep better. Nothing says crazy like being the Uber for three kids and their activities, appointments, on top of my own appointments. Now, we’re not in a ton of activities. My budget has its limits. But living as rural as we do, I like to have things…
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When it comes to my clan, pasta is something that I simply cannot go wrong on. But during our grad school years, we ate pasta meals multiple times each week. Needless to say, we got sick of pasta meals really fast. Since then, we limit them to 2 or 3 a month. When I do make pasta meals now, I…
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Ever since school began this year, my days have been a blur between dance, academic decathalon, and marching band. Things have a tendency to get crazy! And as if it weren’t busy enough, then we got a puppy(!!). As the school year has progressed and the puppy demands my attention, I’ve found the need for stupidly simple meals that I…
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Every month there are predictable expenses, as well as expenses that only occur a few times a year. No matter how long we’ve been budgeting, there always seems to be a category or two I forget in our monthly budgets. Here are 10 budgeting categories you probably forgot in your November budget. Halloween Clearance The beginning of November is the…
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