Hi Everyone! For the past several years, I have tracked our grocery food shopping expenditures because YOU guys have wanted to know HOW MUCH A LARGE FAMILY of eight SPENDS ON GROCERIES in a week, month and year. This year, I have decided that I want to do a monthly video AND blog post detailing…
Large Family Grocery Shopping Meat Haul – 59% Savings!!!
My daughter and I went grocery shopping last week and stumbled across this wonderful meat that was deeply marked down. If you haven’t noticed, meat prices have gone up and it is hard to find “cheap” meat anymore. Most of the meat that I purchased was close to $1.00lb and some was even cheaper than…
Free Printable Daily Expense Ledger and February Finance Goals
I have been reading Crystal Paine’s book, “Say Goodbye To Survival Mode” this past month. There is one chapter where she stresses the importance of goal setting and remaining focused. One of her exercises in the books is to make your own personal goals and to write them down. For the month of February, one…
How To Stay Cool During A Heat Wave
It’s July and here in Upstate New York we have just started to get some really hot weather with high humidity. It’s very challenging to stay cool without an air conditioner and with humidity levels like this, but it isn’t impossible. Here are a few things that we do to try to stay cool. 1.…