savings

10 Easy Ways to Save Money

by beth September 27, 2009

Like every­one these days we’ve been find­ing ways to save money. There are some­times easy ways we’ve found to help us save money. And we didn’t need to go liv­ing off the grid to do it, they were sim­ple changes. 1. Cook­ing on a Bud­get: When I wrote the post about Cook­ing on a Budget […]

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Cooking for the Family on a Budget: Resisting Shiny Ball Syndrome

by beth September 6, 2009

We’ve been try­ing to stick a bud­get for our gro­ceries and my back to school refo­cus on health will again be an essen­tial part of that.  Our stay­ca­tion this week­end in just another way to pro­vide a lot of options to reduce costs–like camp outs, cook outs, & find­ing inex­pen­sive local fes­ti­vals. The joys of […]

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Raising a Kid Costs $221,000: I Challenge That Raising 4

by beth August 5, 2009

Accord­ing to an arti­cle in TIME mag­a­zine the aver­age mid­dle class fam­ily earn­ing $57,000-$99,000 will pay out about $221,000 to raise a child from birth until high school age. The report by the USDA’s Cen­ter for Nutri­tion Pol­icy and Pro­mo­tion iden­ti­fied hous­ing as the largest sin­gle expense, fol­lowed by food and child care/education costs. The […]

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