"I love you" may be a pretty powerful thing to say but gestures are even more powerful. Welcome to a list of fun, free, and frugal things you can do with your significant other.This was a ...
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We Saved $640 With a Money Jar! (And What We Did With Spare Change)
Two years ago, I was shopping for our weekly groceries in the Asian grocer near our house. In one of the snack aisles, there were a bunch of adorable animal-shaped coin jars stuffed with ...
Why You Still Need An Emergency Fund While In Debt
I write these for my Soapy and all the Soapys we have in our own lives. You can read part of Soapy’s briefing here:Soaps is one of my best friends. She is a remarkable person and a free-spirited, ...
21 Cheap Pantry Staples List on a Limited Budget
Cooking at home? Starting out on a tight budget? I recommend the following basic pantry staples to keep in stock for a pinch!Cheap Pantry StaplesCarbohydrates1. PastaCost effective at less than $1 per ...
The Hefty Financials Costs Behind Owning a McMansion
This Martin Luther King Monday is our official, guilt-free, lay around the house like a lazy cat day. For the few golden hours of waiting for our laundry to finish, my husband and I sat on our used ...
40 Everyday Household Items You Should Buy Secondhand To Save Money
I never knew how many free and secondhand things we used as the family until now. As I took a stroll around my home after the Christmas holidays it occurred to me that a good percentage of our ...
A “Splurge” California Christmas Vacation Report With Our Family
This is our first California Christmas vacation report. (Definitely not going to be the last one, we go back to California from Seattle, Washington every year to see family.)Initially, I didn't see ...
What I Learned About Clutter As a Millennial With Boomer In-Law Parents
We’re still away in California, good children. I wanted to throw a quick lesson out there that’s been plaguing me for a few days. I try to not judge what people do with their money as long as they are ...
8 Ideas to Giving Special Christmas Gifts (Even When You’re Broke)
My own family composes of first-generation immigrants. The only thing I remember celebrating as a child was Chinese New Year's. By celebrate, I meant we lit incense and watched Chinese New Year ...
3 Glaring Signs Being Frugal Isn’t Working & What To Do Instead
~Frugality essentially means trying to live on less of the assigned allotment. It is the process of creating a conscious surplus from what you are given and rolling that surplus to your advantage down ...
