Maintaining a family budget takes some budgeting tips. We live in expensive times. Being a one income household may feel impossible. This list of tips to stay on budget when you have kids are practical ideas for cutting costs, saving money and budgeting well. … [Read more...]
How To Support Your Family as A Stay-At-Home Mom
Just because you’re a stay-at-home mom, doesn’t mean you can’t have your own hustle. If you want to support your family through work, you can do that without even leaving your home. With these options, you’ll always be able to care for your kids. You can do this even while you work. Thanks to changing business practices, we live in a world in which working from home is, for … [Read more...]
Inflation Tips for Living on One Income
Our budget looks much different this year. We had about 5 years of really good financial times. My husband got a promotion a few years ago, all our debt was paid off and we could save like I had been wanting. This last year, changes began to creep in to our expenses. It all has me focusing on inflation tips for living on one income. … [Read more...]
Stay at Home Snacks
Anyone else's kids eating all the time these days? Mine are! It is a constant event when kids are home for school it seems. I found some stay at home snacks during quarantine to help us extend our time between grocery trips. When you can't shop multiple times a week, want to reduce how much you are spending on snacks, or just want to serve your kids healthy, inexpensive … [Read more...]
Free or Cheap Kids Activities in Denver
I grew up in the colorful Colorado mountains. Denver Colorado is full of history, with wild west adventures, gold rush, geology/mining, and dinosaur findings. As a Colorado Native it’s my pleasure to share with you some of the best free or cheap kids activities in Denver. My Grandparents came from Germany to visit often. We would take them to places like Buffalo … [Read more...]
Save Money on Kids Activities: Passes, Free Activities & Tips with NewAir
Taking kids out and about on field trips, to outdoor events or museums can end up being a pretty costly way to spend time together as a family. Zoos, museums and indoor bounce gyms are a lot of fun though! To afford the fun activities, we try to save money on kids activities in easy ways. … [Read more...]
Life Lessons in Christmas Activities
{Post by Lisa Brown} Life Lesson: Viewing Christmas Lights Viewing Christmas lights is one of our family’s favorite activities to partake in during the Holidays. I love bundling up in warm clothes with a big hot mug of flavored peppermint coffee. I’m moved by each little light that twinkles so bright and the delightful sighs my children express. Christmas lights are … [Read more...]
Avoid Investing Errors
{Post by Jessica} Tax season is a time when many think about their financial outlook, explore saving or invest wisely to avoid investing errors. This year we are very fortunate to be receiving a slight increase in our income. Mind you, the increase will be a result of a 9 month deployment. Not fun. Nevertheless, part of me wants to loosen up our budget a bit and have … [Read more...]
DIY Gifts: Save Money and Give with Love
DIY gifts are something I work into my holiday giving every year. They allow me to personalize gifts, give unique treats, and save money. This is all good for our household budget. DIY gifts are often easily made in large batches so you can make it once and create multiple gifts at one time. I use this batch processing method for all my neighbor gifts, teacher gifts and even … [Read more...]
How to Make Grocery Shopping Easier
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Robbi Bittle} Grocery shopping can be tiring. At least for me. Of course, little kids might have something to do with that. ;) How do you make grocery shopping easier? If you have little kids … [Read more...]
Meaningful & Affordable Family Activities
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Chuck E. Cheese's. All opinions are mine. Please view my disclosure. It is not easy to find inexpensive family activities. Children’s museums, special area events and zoos all cost money, and we are talking at least $20 per person-if not more. No matter where you live, creating family memories can get costly, unless you … [Read more...]
One All-Purpose Cleaner for Everything
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} A year ago I completely changed how I clean the house. I used to buy one cleaner for windows and glass, another cleaner for the toilets, one for the floors and even another for wiping down … [Read more...]