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Do I Need A Will? When To Make It And The Benefits Of Having One

Once you hit adulthood, you may be asking yourself, “do I need a will?” Wills always reminded me of my grandma and grandpa. They are older and closer to death, so it made sense for them to have a will. While I am not a lawyer, nor am I giving any legal advice. But It […]

Filed Under: Family Finances Tagged: Financial Planning, Will

Free Printable Monthly Bill Tracker To Teach You How to Track Individual Bills

Filed Under: Family Budget

Are you looking for a printable bill tracker that will track the bills you are paying down on? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a place to keep track of each bill instead of 1 paper for all your bills? This individual printable bill tracker is perfect for this. It allows you to see when […]

Filed Under: Family Budget Tagged: family budget printables, how to pay off debt

20 Of The Best Cheap Date Ideas For Couples On Any Budget

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Dating doesn’t have to be expensive. These cheap date ideas for couples are a perfect way to have fun together on a budget! These ideas are a great way to show you love without breaking the bank. After all, showing someone you care is really from your heart not from your pocketbook. […]

Filed Under: Family Finances Tagged: date night ideas, frugal family, life after grad school, marriage, money saving tips

12 Months of Preplanned Dates Gift + Once A Month Date Night Ideas

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I am the type of person who requires gifts to mean something. Sometimes it can be hard to find a good gift because of that. I am also the type of person who loves a well thought out date night once a month. While trying to come up with gift ideas I realized that a […]

Filed Under: Family Finances Tagged: date night ideas, frugal family, marriage

The Best Kept Secrets For Where To Find Grocery Coupons For Free That You Actually Use

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If you want to save big money on your food budget, you will want to learn how to coupon. The methods of shopping combined with the coupons will save you so much money!

Filed Under: Couponing Tagged: how to save money on food

Adjusting your Budget Mid Month

One of the biggest problems people have with their budgets is making them work for the whole month. This is easily remedied, but it is a change of the way you think of your budget which is hard. But once you master this, your budgets will be foolproof and you will always be able to […]

How to Pay Your Bills On Time + Free Printable

Are you struggling to pay bills on time? Maybe you keep forgetting when the due date is or you have poor money management skills. Either way, I’m not here to judge. Maybe you’ve been following my series based on paying bills. I’ve mentioned before how going from not having a lot of bills to having […]

The Best Money Management Software For Our Large Family Budget

Update: I no longer recommend Everydollar. I found that if you are paying $99 a year you should be able to match transactions you manually enter and this tool does not let you do this. It also doesn’t give you much in the way of reports for tax purposes or anything like that. I also […]

Saving Money At the Grocery Store by Making a Stock Pile

One of the most important things you can do to be saving money at the grocery store is to make a stock pile. This means you are buying enough items to last your family until the next sale. This way you are only buying items on sale. This is probably one of the biggest […]

Are you looking for easy ways to save? Using these 4 easy ways to save without spending a dime, you will be able to save money while still keeping your budget in check!

4 Ways to Save Without Spending a Dime

This post on ways to save without spending a dime is a sponsored post from Valpak, all opinions and words are my own and not influenced by them in any way. Sometimes you need to find ways to save quickly and without spending money. We found ourselves in this type of a position many times […]

How to Save Money on Spices

Due to time constraints this week post will hopefully be a short one. I wanted to talk a little about spices. If you buy those big year supply food storage type of thing, it is mostly made of bland type ingredients that you need to spice up a bit. The problem is that spices don’t […]

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