It was a little over a year ago that I started considering writing a blog. I’d stumbled across some income reports on Pinterest and fell in love with the idea of working for myself, by myself, on a creative project that was ongoing and would help people. At the time I was deeply unhappy … Read more
The biggest variable expense in any household is almost always going to be food. Even if you price match, coupon, clearance shop, and get all of your rebates, it can still be tough to lower that grocery bill without resorting to growing and raising all your own food (unfeasible for most people!) or eating … Read more
Falling behind on bills. It’s happened to all of us at least once, and happens to many of us more often than we’d like to admit. Whether it’s a spending problem, an income problem, a budgeting problem, or just a LIFE problem, it happens. And we hardly ever talk about it, probably because it’s embarrassing … Read more
A Beginner’s Guide to Extreme Couponing Grocery shopping can easily be a family’s largest monthly expense, if you let it. It costs hundreds of dollars to feed a family, and then once you factor in toilet paper, cleaning products, laundry soap… and with the cost of goods only rising, well, it’s no wonder that the … Read more
How to Manage Your Money When You’re Broke AF Budgeting can seem scary. It draws up images of long nights at the dining room table, pouring over papers with a calculator and a stack of papers, pulling at your hair and gritting your teeth.And trying to budget when you’re broke? Pfft. It doesn’t have to … Read more
What is a poverty mindset? Money doesn’t grow on trees, right? A poverty mindset is a limiting set of beliefs and worldviews that narrows the way you think about money, and it absolutely holds you back. It’s as simple as saying, “I could never afford that” when looking at your dream house or car, or … Read more