Getting the Best Deals Bargain Shopping Bargain shopping is one thing I started doing since having kids. Kids are expensive. If you want to stretch your money, you have to find deals. We’ve got several tips on how you can get great deals on gifts and items for your family. We also have suggestions on […]
17+ energy savings tips for your home
I’m all about saving money anywhere I can, especially in those cold and hot months in Michigan. When we moved to this house we knew it was bigger. I wasn’t expecting it to have such huge electric bills. It was $500 per month during the hot Summer months (in Michigan). We had to do something […]
Tips to Buy Enough Food For a Year
buying enough A few years ago I was BIG into couponing and deals. I had a stock pile of everything. I was buying enough, and then some more. Don’t get me wrong, I still love great deals and coupon when I can. But when couponing changed (the rules got harder and the savings decreased), it […]
Frugal Living Tips From the Depression Era
My grandparents were born in 1912 and 1920. They didn’t have a lot growing up, but they made the most of what the had and used the tips they learned really can help us live cheaper today. Check out these tips on how you too can save money with these frugal living tips for some […]
Hunting & finding the best used stuff
Did you know you can go other places than just garage sales to get great things? There are a lot of places to go that are year round discount shopping experiences. You can find the best used items at these locations. Where to look I never seem to find what I want since I discovered […]
Find Financial Freedom While Living Within a Budget
I have struggled to make ends meet many times. When I bought my first house, I bought it as a single person. I didn’t have a lot of money for groceries. Most of the time I ate grilled cheese and tomato soup, spaghetti with no sauce, or tortilla chips and cheese. Not the best food. […]
Printable: Monthly Family Budget
It is hard to save money. If it’s in my account, I want to spend it. But, if I can put down on paper, how much I’m bringing in and what my bills are, I can take that ‘extra’ money and either apply it on another bill or put it into savings. Check out this […]
how to get great savings on your back to school supplies
saving on school supplies I am getting more experience each year shopping for school supplies. Every year our school savings gets more and more (and we learn to buy only what we need.) That makes me a veteran on the playground, so to speak. I was super excited the first couple years the kids were […]
DIY: Refill Hands Free Soap Dispenser
Do you use the handsfree soap dispensers? We do at our house and those refills are expensive and they don’t make it so you can refill them, easy that is. It seems like they would just sell refill soap to put in them to make it easier. But if you take your refill soap container […]
Shopping the reduced produce bin
The Food Network has a special show called The Big Waste. It takes food from restaurants, grocery stores and produce farms that is on its way to the trash to make it into meals for a crowd of people. I was surprised at how much is actually just thrown own. Several things went through my head, like […]
