Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to keep track of your grocery and coupon savings throughout the entire year? My good friend at SavingsLifestyle.com has created two amazing financial tool that do just that. See Your Savings Thousands use the Savings Tracking File and have great testimonies of saving thousands of dollars over one year. The file is an excel based document that does all of the ...
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How to Have a Thanksgiving Potluck
By contributing writer Dawn If one person does all the planning, shopping, and cooking, holiday meals can be a burden! We have close to twenty on our guest list, and cooking for twenty is a pretty big undertaking. One way we have learned to combat the load of one person doing (and buying) everything is to implement a potluck meal. Each family brings several dishes to the holiday table, ...
3 Ways Menu Planning Saves Money
Are you trying to stick to a budget? Do you need to save money on groceries? Try menu planning! I feed our family of six (including 3 teens and a 12 year old) for $125 or less per week, and the primary way that I am able to stick to my budget is by making a weekly meal plan. Here are three ways that menu planning saves you money. Spend Less on Eating Out It's 5:00, you're tired, and the kids are ...
How to Go Green and Save Money
The following is a guest post from Suzan Bekiroglu. While there are many definitions of what it means to be "green," there is an almost universal misconception that making better choices for the environment creates a more expensive lifestyle. There are many frugal ways to lead an environmentally sound life, but it does require research and effort to achieve. Expensive Organic Food With 3 in 5 ...
Extreme Couponing: When Saving Money Goes Too Far
I just finshed watching Extreme Couponing on TLC. I watch very little television, but this show caught my attention when my friend Andrea linked to it on Facebook. The show profiled four extreme couponers and their quest to spend almost nothing at the grocery store. Each couponer had stockpiles that took up entire rooms, garages, or more, and spent several hours a day finding, cutting, sorting ...
5 Simple Ways to Cut Your Grocery Bill
Last month I challenged myself to cut my grocery bill by 10%. The reason for the reduction was to give our family extra money for stockpiling. I ended up cutting almost 20% from our bill, but part of that was because we all got sick and no one made it to the store! As promised, here are some simple tips to help trim your grocery bill each month. Match Sales with Coupons Ten years ago this was a ...
