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How to Create a Successful Monthly Budget: FREE Excel Spreadsheet Template!

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If you need help knowing how to create a monthly budget, my friend Lauren is guest posting today about her successful monthly budget, how she created it, and even included a free excel monthly budget template for an entire year. Feel free to download and use so your family can create a successful monthly budget too. When my husband and I did ...

How to Know Which Debt to Pay Off First

As a former hedge fund analyst and finance major, turned SAHM and blogger, I write a regular Family Financial Savvy series because I believe there is power and freedom in being financially literate… and sadly, it is a skill too many families lack. The most common issue families come to me with is wanting to pay down debt. This is a great financial ...

6 Ways Online Grocery Shopping Keeps Me on a Budget

If your monthly grocery budget is tight, then consider online grocery shopping! Below are six reasons why it's been the key to grocery shopping on a budget. A few years ago, my husband and I put together a monthly budget for our family. We review that budget every month and adjust as needed. Our budget allows us to buy just about anything we ...

11 Things You Need to Know about Walmart Grocery Pickup

Want to know if Walmart Grocery Pickup is worth it? Then read my review and why it's great for busy moms! Taking four kids grocery shopping isn't my favorite pastime. While I don't think my kids are usually terrors, sometimes, well, they kind of are. Because, here's the thing: my kids love to play, run, explore, and imagine. Which ...

6 Quick and Easy Ways to Save $5 or More Every Week

Want to know how to save money quickly and easily? Keep reading for six easy ideas on how to save an extra $5 a week. Saving $5 a week may not seem like a lot of money but $5 can add up quickly. Did you know that if you invested that $5, in twenty years you could amass over $69,000?! Craziness, I know, but it's true. There really is power in ...

How to Maximize Savings During Black Friday and Cyber Monday

If you're shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, then you need to download these Black Friday apps and use the following Cyber Monday websites so you can save even more! I absolutely love the amazing deals you can get on all sorts of stuff during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales because I love saving money! I don't know anyone who doesn't ...

What to Do When Your Landlord Doesn’t Refund Your Deposit

A few months ago, I posted a special article for all you renting novices out there about how to get your security deposit back in full. So, what happens if you feel you’ve followed all those steps, and your Landlord still stiffs you? As long as you have performed your obligations and upheld your part of the lease contract, you have ...

11 Costly and Messy Diapering Mistakes You Really Don’t Wanna Make!

I still remember one of my very first nights as a new mom when I made a huge diapering mistake. One of my twin daughters, Alison, asleep in the pack n' play at the foot of our bed, starting pooping. I know because all newborns make extremely loud pooping noises. So, as a dutiful new mom, I sprung out of bed, picked up a few Pampers Swaddlers ...

7 Steps to Get Your Security Deposit Back in FULL

Want to know how to get security deposit back on your apartment? Then you'll love these tips on how to get a full refund of your rental security deposit! Whether or not you paid a small or large security deposit to rent the place you call ‘home’, nothing feels more like a sucker-punch to a renter than when your landlord keeps your deposit after ...

Amazing Resources to Help You Live Frugally

Pinching pennies. Living frugally. Being thrifty. Whatever you like to call it, living a life with less, whether out of necessity or desire, is extremely beneficial. In many ways, I'm super glad that my husband and I started our marriage out as two broke college kids who then welcomed twins about 18 months later as we graduated college. The ...

How Non-Traditional College Students are Making Ends Meet

Chances are high that you or someone you know is in a similar situation as I am in: a college student who is earning degrees later in life with a family in tow. As non-traditional students we’re out there seeking educational advancement: degrees, certificates, training, courses, professional development and the like. In the U.S.A, a place where ...

14 Money Saving Tips for Moms Having a Baby on a Budget

The cost of a baby is ridiculous, well, as long as you buy into those cost calculators online. You can totally have a baby on a budget and you and baby will be A-Okay. They may not be able to do everything celebrity babies do, but babies don't care, at all. They just want love and love is free and you have plenty of it! I'm sharing my best money ...