Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. ~Proverbs 30: 8b-9 When I was a young child, I took gymnastics. Walking across the balance beam was a challenge. You must understand
Hand-me-down clothes are hand-me-down love, and I love me some hand-me-down. Did you follow that? I’m not even sure it makes sense, but I’m a little tired and weary of writing about money. It’s not my first or even second love. If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you know I wear hand-me-down clothes and so do my kids. My husband even
Friends, today is the day. Carpe Diem and all that. We can talk about making your own laundry soap and cutting the cord on cable TV. We can be martyrs in a world of spending and make do with what we have. We can even save on love with a bunch of cheap date night ideas, but all the money-saving talk in the world won’t
Cable TV, it’s about time we broke up. For good. Actually we quit our cable years ago. In fact, we’ve had cable television for about three out of the sixteen years my husband and I have been married. Do we ever miss it? Once in a really great while, but it’s not worth the cost, not even a little. Besides, today there are a ton
Shop out of season for clothes, not fruits or vegetables. Shopping out of season is a fabulous way to save money. Last Christmas my daughter was given a Kohl’s gift card. She bought shorts for about $4 dollars a piece. It was the best decision, because she ended up going to Myrtle Beach over spring break with a friend. Not only did she have appropriate
You may have misread the title. Shopping isn’t an Olympic sport to see who can shop the fastest. No, we’re talking about fasting, as in not eating, but instead of food, let’s consider giving our budget a break. Go on a shopping fast. This is the tough stuff. It’s the place where you come to terms with just how much you want to save money.
I don’t have a well-built wardrobe, I have a haphazard mish-mash of print and color. It’s true. My closet looks more like a candy shop than a women’s collection of clothes. I never saw the need to build my wardrobe. I liked to shop and bought what I liked, especially if it came off the clearance rack and I had a coupon. Unless you’re
Last night we headed over to Goodwill. It’s school spirit week and my kids needed to wear purple. Our closets are like rainbows, but apparently we don’t wear purple very often. So, to the thrift store we went. I always figure, I’ll check there before heading off to the regular retail stores. I found a purple sweatshirt for my son and cute purple top for
You may think I’ve fallen off my 31 Day bandwagon and that splurging is not a Cheap Trick, but it is, especially long-term. If you need/want to live for less for an extended period of time, and I’m not just talking about a month or two, then you need to learn when it’s ok to splurge. Think of it this way – you are the
About six years ago, I was contacted by the producers of the Wife Swap television show. They wanted FringeMan and I to swap spouses for a week (or two, I can’t remember) and they would pay us a very sizable sum of money for being part of the television show. It was one swap we weren’t interested in. However, you can swap food and save