saving money
Elizabeth on October 30th, 2011

So, in the two years since our daughter was born, I’ve learned I can no longer saunter through the grocery store, buying whatever I’m tasting for at the moment, and then repeating this process 3 to 4 times a week, racking up huge grocery bills and unfortunately wasting lots of food too. But I didn’t [...]

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Elizabeth on September 15th, 2011

I was cleaning the house (again, again, again) today… and while brushing the copious dog fur off the couch cusions, remembered fondly some of my most pleasant Saturday nights this summer. See, this summer, my husband worked weekends at his second job, and we had a number of guests visiting and parties at our house… [...]

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Elizabeth on September 8th, 2011

When I moved in with my husband I was amazed at how full several of the cabinets were with cleaning supplies. There was cleaner, stripper, foaming no scrubber, bartenders friend, tarnish remover, spic and span, lestoil, pine sol, goo remover, window cleaner, dog butt wipes and the  list goes on and on…. I truly don’t [...]

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Elizabeth on September 1st, 2011

So, one of the things that has kept me from writing as often as I’d planned is honesty. Honesty with you, the reader, but also with myself. I believe that I am like most Americans who is at best, clueless how to live within my means, or at worst, unwilling. I have put up ads [...]

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Elizabeth on August 25th, 2011

Judgment? Discipline? It is hard to say. I’m talking about my serious lack of writing about the low budget topic.  May I confess, I have done a fairly terrible job in living a low budget lifestyle, still traipsing to Starbucks most days to buy a now $5 coffee PLUS a $1.75 milk for my daughter. [...]

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