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From the category archives:
… computer! Which was quite necessary, in the modern scheme of things.
We have been putting off the wheedling from our teenage son for well over a year, but the time had come: our old desktop lasted years longer than any other computer we’ve owned and it was one step away from crashing completely. Also, our [...]
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Do you Goodwill? Frequent Thrift Shops? Hop yard sales? Yes, yes, and yes? Do you (hardly almost) never shop regular retail for your kids’ clothes?
I’ve steered away from yard sales in recent years. I’ve also declared [many times] that I will never again have one myself! Every time I do anyway, my husband is like, [...]
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I stopped into Goodwill the other day, to look at the books: one of my second-hand shopping loves. (I justify it all in the name of future homeschooling.) My attention was immediately caught by the brand-new small kitchen appliances set on a table at the front of the store. Among them, an Oster 16-speed blender [...]
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With the recent beautiful, Spring weather (flurries in the forecast notwithstanding) I decided it was high time to go through my kids’ seasonal clothes and assess the current situation.
You see, when I’m out and about at the second-hand stores I like to frequent, when I see something cute, I want to get it. However! Just [...]
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Toward the beginning of January, I joined a pantry challenge hosted by an amazing blogger who encouraged everyone to clean out their pantries and see how far you could stretch those grocery dollars for the month.
After my 14yo looked into our (crowded) pantry and declared, “There’s nothing to eat in here,” I decided drastic measures [...]
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I was half-way through my grocery shopping today when I realized I had walked out of the house without taking cash from the “food” envelope.
The Envelope System
Cash spending is a new thing for me. This is my first month, actually. I’ve started off small — just four categories. (Food; gifts; clothing; and booze.) (Just keeping [...]
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I’ve mentioned my real-life friend Erin a lot lately, I know. She’s promoting her $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook, and it’s just so exciting I can’t keep quiet about it! I feel like a know an honest-to-goodness celebrity. What can I say? I love living vicariously.
But mainly, it wouldn’t be responsible of me not to talk [...]
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… a whopping $715.
Keeping It Real Does that seem like a lot? How much did you spend? Did you create a budget and stick to it? Do tell.
The thing is, despite the name of this blog, The Hubs and I never really sat down and said, “We’re only going to spend this much on Christmas, [...]
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*Sigh* I promised myself I would turn in EARLY tonight. Alas, I got sucked in by a new commenter (Hi, M&J!) so I had to go check out her site, which led me to other sites…
I found a couple of amazing new bloggers who are on their own amazing debt-free journeys! I’m so excited to [...]
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I’ve always been a big fan of second-hand stores. In fact, you might say that my biggest problem is not spending too much at them! That“It’s such a good deal, I can’t pass it up” mentality.
I am doing much better in that area: really thinking hard about whether I really need an item, and not [...]
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