Hopefully, the holiday season bring up memories of great times with family and friends. Not only does it bring up memories, the season creates an awesome opportunity to create or carry on memories with your kids and family.How do you create memories when the budget is tight?Don't worry, … [Read more...]
4 Principles For Saving Smartly During The Holidays
The holiday season is such an exciting time! For most this means cookies, cakes, and pies, amazing meals with family and friends, time off work to celebrate, and of course presents!Little miss has just recently discovered how amazing presents are because of our non-traditional advent … [Read more...]
Empty The Freezer Challenge {Day 8}
Welcome To Day 8 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge! [Read Day 7 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge Here] Before we get into day 8, if you're new to the challenge, I'm taking a little break from my regular postings in December to do a Challenge designed to help save money, simplify, and prepare … [Read more...]
Empty The Freezer Challenge {Day 7}
Welcome To Day 7 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge! [Read Day 5 & 6 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge Here] Yesterday was all about simplicity, and I want to hear from you: How did you keep it simple? Before we get into day 7, if you're new to the challenge, I'm taking a little … [Read more...]
Empty The Freezer Challenge {Days 5 & 6}
Welcome To Day 5 & 6 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge! Yesterday was all about when life throws you curveballs [Read Day 4 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge Here] My internet was down for, essentially, 4 days last week and I lost close to 20 hours of productive … [Read more...]
Empty The Freezer Challenge {Day 4}
Welcome To Day 4 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge! Yesterday, I talked about ways to deal with brainblock. [Read Day 3 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge Here] Cooking from the freezer sounds great, until you get overwhelmed with all of the choices (or the lack thereof) and can't come up with … [Read more...]
Empty The Freezer Challenge {Day 3}
Welcome To Day 3 Of The Empty The Freezer Challenge! Yesterday, I talked about how I needed to use the best time for me to make a plan to cook from the freezer, and to prepare for it. Basically, I needed to start in the morning and put my day on autopilot so that I didn't have to think about it … [Read more...]
Empty The Freezer Challenge {Day 2}
Day 2 of The Empty The Freezer Challenge, I think I started to realize where I was going to run into trouble:Time Planning PreparationBut first, if this is the first time you're seeing this challenge - what is it? The "Empty The Freezer Challenge" What is it? The Empty The Freezer … [Read more...]
Empty The Freezer Challenge {Day 1}
Day 1 started out with much less of a bang than I had hoped. Instead of inventorying my freezer, cooking, and generally getting off to a good start, my internet was down for a good portion of the day, the kiddo and I were both sick, and we really didn't make it very far off the couch, so no much … [Read more...]
I’m Doing Something Crazy…..
For most people, myself included, December brings about a few feelings: "OHMYGOSH Christmas is coming so soon and I haven't done all of my shopping/decorating/baking!""Oh no! How are we going to afford this?""2016 is almost here, and it's going to be my year. I just need to purge the junk … [Read more...]
