A couple days ago a friend of mine posted a picture of a pumpkin her daughter made. I had never seen anything like it before, but I thought it was so cute. I Googled how to do this, and all you needed was some crayons, a little glue, a pumpkin and a hair dryer. I […]
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The Four Gift Rule (And The Story Of THE ROBES)
I was going to wait until closer to Thanksgiving to write about this, but after what happened yesterday, I’d like to share it today. If you follow me on Facebook, then you may have already seen this post from yesterday (had to do three screenshots because it’s long — but funny!): So the kids […]
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And if it IS broke, maybe you still shouldn’t fix it. At least not for a little while.
Our dryer broke a couple months ago. Our dishwasher broke a few months before that. The way we handled these broken “necessities” after our financial troubles is much different than the way we handled them before. Which could be part of the reason why we entered into financial trouble in the first place. This is not […]
Making more money isn’t the answer to your money problems.
Last week I wrote a post about the most important thing we did to dig ourselves out of financial trouble. It was just one bullet point in the list of many, many things we did, but it was definitely at the top. Once we did that, it helped us to see how we had been contributing […]
Do You Know What Your Monthly Expenses Are?
I hear from a lot of people who are struggling financially. And as you know, we are just coming off of a four year period where we almost lost our house and were on the verge of losing everything. Digging ourselves out of that hole has been one of the hardest things we’ve ever done. […]
50 Mom Tested and Mom Approved Slow Cooker Recipes
We are approaching another school year. And for me, between homework and sports and the musical instruments and everything else, weeknights are particularly busy. And that makes dinner times challenging sometimes. So this year I really wanted to make better use of my crockpot. I really do love my crock pot. But for me, a lot […]