October was a spendy month for us. It was a perfect example of things not quite going the way you planned. Even when you’ve been faithfully budgeting for years, you will still need to make changes throughout the month. Making changes to your budget during the month doesn’t mean that your budget has failed or […]
Debt Smash-athon SEPTEMBER 2020 Progress Report
I love getting a peek into each of your financial journeys as you share a few details in your Debt Smash-athon reports. I really am rooting for each of you! I’m encouraged by your progress and by your willingness to get up and keep going even after disappointments and struggles. 2020 has definitely not been […]
October 2020 Monthly Grocery Haul
We have had pretty big grocery hauls lately, but October’s was different. I waited until the middle of the month to go shopping, and even then we really didn’t need to go. With the experience of our quarantine food storage challenge and with a garden that’s still producing, we are doing just fine. Still, I […]
Real Family Budget Update– September 2020
It’s budget update time! If you’re new here, for the last nearly seven years we’ve shared our family’s real budget here every month. We share what we earned, what we spent in each of our budget categories and our progress, and sometimes lack of progress, on our financial goals. Those numbers have changed dramatically over […]
Debt Smash-athon JULY & AUGUST 2020 Progress Report
Life got a little crazy here, so today we’re catching up with TWO months of your debt smashing progress! I love reading of your progress and how you are working hard to reach your financial goals even in these crazy times. In fact, some of you even reached the exciting milestone of being free of […]
September 2020 Monthly Grocery Haul
Since August was a crazy month with getting homeschooling up and going, I didn’t post our monthly grocery haul, but I’m back in September! In fact, I’m taking you shopping with me! Our family of 8 usually spends around $500 per month on groceries, well until 2020 hit. Then we took a couple of months […]
Planning Your Emergency Water Storage
You know I’m all about being prepared. Today we’re going to talk about water storage. You’ll get lots of options and ideas for putting together emergency water storage for your family, including how you can do it virtually for free. But first, why is water so important? Don’t we all have it coming out of […]
Real Family Budget Update – August 2020
It’s time for a budget update! I pretty much haven’t checked in with you all since our budget update a month ago. August was a crazy month getting homeschooling set up for our 4 school-age kids. It seriously consumed all of my time! You seasoned homeschoolers probably have all sorts of secrets that I don’t […]
Best Blackberry Syrup Recipe (with canning tutorial)
It’s blackberry season where we live, which means free blackberries are available in every direction. The kids had been begging to go berry picking because we have been out of blackberry syrup for too long and we need to restock. Sure we have other kinds of syrup, but nothing compares to homemade blackberry syrup. It’s […]
Real Family Budget Update – July 2020
It’s time for our July 2020 real numbers budget update! Life in July was a little crazy for our family. We went from laying low in quarantine, literally not going anywhere, to having two scheduled surgeries and one emergency room visit in July, along with the associated doctor visits. And even aside from that excitement […]
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