If you are a family that is choosing to have your wife stay at home in order to care for your house and/or your children, often it feels like you may have made the wrong decision. Shouldn’t “the lady of the house” be working and bringing in income as well? After all, that’s what many
The following post has been brought to you by Cub Foods When we lived in the city, Cub Foods was our “go to” grocery store. The local store there was clean and inviting, the staff was great and the produce was always excellent in quality. After we moved to the country nearly two years ago,
Ever wonder about the answer to this question? I know I do. I spent 15 working years in personal and mortgage banking, and among other things, I learned well during that time how important a credit score can be.
In light of Aaron’s recent post on the Walmart Savings Catcher, I thought I’d do a little trial run. Those of you who know my blog know that I’m a huge fan of saving money, and I’m a bit of a cynic at heart. Just because someone says that they offer the lowest prices, I
The following is sponsored by Cub Foods As our family of six keeps on the lookout for ways to slash our grocery budget, we find ourselves spending a fair amount of our grocery cash at Cub Foods. Cub Foods really has the corner market on providing money savings for families looking for good deals on quality
This is a sponsored post. All opinions belong to the author. As we’ve worked to achieve financial freedom in our family, we’ve worked to cut costs in all areas of expense, but by far one of the biggest cost-saving cuts we’ve made has been in terms of reducing our grocery budget. With a little planning and
When Rick and I were young and first married, we had a bit of a “que’ sera, sera” attitude about our finances. There was stuff we wanted, like a house, cars, clothes and vacations. When we didn’t have the cash to pay for these things, we would simply borrow for them. Our attitude was, “After
Stefanie over at The Broke and Beautiful Life was fortunate enough to be featured in this WSJ article, where the author talked about the dangers of wasting your money away on little things. Some of the commenters ridiculed Stefanie for insisting that grabbing a taco a few times a week could damage her budget, but
I’ve long been a student of the studies of the Great Depression. That era in America intrigues me to no end. Unemployment was a whopping 25%, and theforeclosure rate jumped from 3.6 per 1,000 mortgages in 1926 to 13.3 per 1,000 mortgages in 1933. Shanty towns were popping up everywhere as people built makeshift
I was feeling smug – a little too smug. We were just over a year into our quest for self-sufficiency, and it was going well. We were hang-drying our clothes, opening cans by hand and the like. We hadn’t used our electric mixer but once in the last 15 months – no sirree! We would
