The number one secret to a successful grocery trip without breaking your budget and to give you a full week of food is planning. When you go into the store planning to wing it, you’ll likely spend a lot more money than you planned, buy items you don’t need, and might not end up with enough food for full meals for the entire week.
Cut Cable
Have you started working on your budget and realized that cable is one of your top monthly expenses? Have you considered trying to cut cable, but decided against it? Are you often frustrated about how much you pay for cable only to realize that the competitor’s prices are just as expensive? Unless cable is the most important item you value in your budget, you need to cut it. And if cable is the most important item in your budget, ask yourself why and if there are really not any less expensive options that could fulfill your needs.
What is it and why should you join the Teal Pumpkin Project?
The Teal Pumpkin Project was created by Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) and seeks to create an inclusive Halloween for everyone regardless of food allergies. The purpose is really quite simple and you can help very easily by offering non-food options at your house on Halloween as a treat. Now you might think that Halloween without candy is just absurd, but why make it either or? Why not have candy and a non-food treat? Examples of non-food treats include: spider rings, Halloween pencils, bubbles, or what I offer at my house: Halloween activity books. I typically answer the door with both a bucket of candy and a bucket of the Halloween activity books and let kids chose (or give one of each). Read more to find out why you should join the Teal Pumpkin Project.
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Host the best football party
Can you believe it’s football season already? You should love hosting the best football party. Not only is it a great way to have fun with your friends. It is also a great way to save money. These three tips will make it so easy for you to host the best football party ever.
Why to not delay your honeymoon
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It’s becoming more and more popular to not take a honeymoon right away. It’s getting more normal for people to plan to wait until their one year anniversary to go on a honeymoon. From a financial perspective I get it. You just spent a ton of money on a wedding and now you’re going to pay for an expensive honeymoon vacation on top of it? It can be much easier to say that we will save for a year and take our honeymoon to celebrate our one year anniversary instead. DO NOT DO IT. As a newlywed, I can tell you that you absolutely should not delay your honeymoon.
Don’t compete with the Joneses
Everyone knows them. The people that seem to be always living large. They have all the new cars, the newest toys, the most extravagant vacation, and the beautiful house. How do they do it? How are they killing it at life while you’re counting pennies and hoping that you can pay all of your bills? The truth is, how do you know if they’re killing it? Sure, it might look like they have everything under control, but you don’t know the truth about their situation. Maybe they are killing it, but maybe they have a boatload of debt and are just hoping the credit collectors don’t find them. How do you avoid comparing yourself to them and how do you stop yourself from becoming them?
Organize your morning as a night owl
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There are so many ideas about how to increase your productivity by getting up early, but here’s the thing… if you aren’t a morning person, those tactics just won’t work for you. Now even if you’re a night owl, you probably still have to get up and get going in the morning either to get the kids or yourself to school or to get to work. These eight tips will help you, night owl, so you can have an organize your morning routine.
Marriage mistakes to avoid
You’re married! Congrats! Now let’s talk about the four biggest marriage mistakes not to make during your first married year. My husband and I are newlyweds and we have friends who are newlyweds. We’ve made some of these marriage mistakes and learned from friends who have made others. We are still very happily married, but your first year of marriage can be a lot easier if you avoid these four simple mistakes.
Decline the Expensive Meal Out
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You get the text from your friend, the dreaded text, (ok, or call, but I’m a millennial so for me it’s a text) and they ask you and your partner to come to an expensive meal with them and their partner at this really fancy restaurant. We’re talking a restaurant where dinner for two and a glass of wine each will cost more than your weekly food budget. What do you do? Of course you want to go. You want to see your friends, you’ve heard this restaurant is amazing, and you’ve been doing so well with your budget, don’t you just deserve a nice night out? STOP. Right there, stop. If you have to try to justify that it’s ok to yourself, you know it isn’t ok. You know that as much as you want to go to this expensive meal out, it will move you away from your big picture money goals instead of towards them. You know you’ll have to sacrifice to dig yourself out from under this bill, much less get ahead with your money. So what do you do?
The dreaded wedding budget
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First off, congratulations on getting engaged! I think a lot of people get so excited that there’s going to be a wedding that sometimes it can be very easy to skip over the exciting newly engaged phase so make sure you take a minute to enjoy it. If you’re new to this site, take a minute to read I’m Engaged!!! Now What!? since that post sets the stage and helps you determine your wedding budget. Here are my top 5 tips for saving money on wedding costs.