It’s time for another budget update! I was a little late in getting April’s budget update put together, so if you missed it, you can find it here. The most exciting part of May’s budget was putting a big chunk of money toward our mortgage. For several months we’ve been contemplating putting in solar, which […]
June 2021 Grocery Haul
Hey friends! I’m back with another monthly grocery haul! I took a break from sharing our grocery shopping for a while. In the beginning of the year I was focusing all of my blogging time and energy on working with my Grocery Budget Hero students. Then, I got super busy with homeschooling my four oldest […]
Real Family Budget Update– April 2021
Phew! We are essentially done with our first year of homeschooling. I don’t know how those one room schoolhouse teachers handled things, because four kids in four grades with two littles, was no small feat! It was great for lots of reasons and we don’t regret it at all, but the blog has definitely been […]
Real Family Budget Update– March 2021
Regular life has been so full lately that I’m a little late reporting our budget update for March. Between working on our garden and orchard, homeschooling the four older kids while taking care of the two littles, and helping the kids with a major entrepreneurial endeavor, I haven’t spent much time around the blog. But […]
Real Family Budget Update– February 2021
It’s time to share our February budget update. We hit a milestone this month with our mortgage payoff goal. We have now paid off over $100,000 of our mortgage since we set the goal 28 months ago. We are not on track to get it paid off in the five years that we had originally […]
Frugal Feats, Flops, and Funnies: Kids and Kale Edition
Several years ago I had a series on Six Figures Under where I would share our weekly frugal adventures. My daughter was reading through some of those posts recently and told me I should share more fun stories, not just boring budget updates and grocery hauls! While the 13-year-old crowd isn’t my target audience, I […]
Real Family Budget Update– January 2021
It’s time for another monthly budget update! Well, maybe past time, but better late than never! It still blows my mind that we’ve been sharing our budget updates here for over seven years. Our budget has changed a lot from back when we were in six figures of student loan debt. I never expected to […]
February 2021 Grocery Haul
Hey friends! I’m back with another monthly grocery haul! I took a break from sharing our grocery shopping in January because I was focusing all of my blogging time and energy on working with my Grocery Budget Hero students. I really had a great time sharing all of my strategies for having a low grocery […]
Debt Smash-athon NOV-DEC 2020 Progress Report
Hey Debt Smashers! This update is long overdue! I’ve been putting all of my blogging time and energy lately into helping my students in my Grocery Budget Hero course. I wanted to get this update out to all of you before 2020 is too far off the radar, though! UPDATE: Grocery Budget Hero is now […]
Real Family Budget Update — December 2020
Happy New Year friends! It’s time share our real numbers budget from December and tell you how we finished off 2020. We made a couple of big financial moves during December that might be interesting to you. We refinanced our house again! We bought the house four years ago and this is the third time […]
Want Help Lowering Your Grocery Spending in 2021? Introducing Grocery Budget Hero!
I’m really excited to share with you what I’ve been putting my time and energy into lately (in addition to, you know, feeding my family and homeschooling four of our six kids!). Back in 2020 I conducted a survey of my blog readers and YouTube viewers to get to know you better, find out what […]
December 2020 Monthly Grocery Haul
I debated about doing a grocery haul this month. Not just a post/video, but doing a grocery shopping trip at all! We have lots of produce from our summer and fall garden and plenty of food storage. There wasn’t really much that we needed, but I went ahead and shopped just to replenish our food […]
Real Family Budget Update — November 2020
I’ve been a little quiet around here because I’ve been crazy busy homeschooling my 4 older kiddos (K-7). I definitely underestimated the time and energy it would take, but overall it is going well. But you know me well enough to know that even when life is busy, we still take time to keep a […]
Debt Smash-athon OCTOBER 2020 Progress Report
I’m so impressed with how you guys have rocked the debt smashing even though it has been a crazy year! I love reading about your successes and positivity through your trials. It hasn’t been easy, but you’re on the way to reach your goals even if the timeline isn’t what you had originally planned. For […]
Real Family Budget Update — October 2020
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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