Guess what time it is? No, I don’t mean what time it is on the clock. If you haven’t picked your head up out of your desk in a while so that you can be assaulted by fliers from Office Max – Office Depot – Staples – and others, It’s […]
Preparing Our Finances
Financial burdens hit everyone. How do you both, reactively, deal with those challenges as well as proactively prepare for them? We discuss that in this category.
6 Items You May Not Have Considered As Part of Your Preps
I consider myself a prepper – not a crazy doomsday type of prepper, but an every day, make sure my family is taken care of kinda prepper. If you’re reading this, you probably consider yourself somewhat of a prepper. Oftentimes, we have extra food in the basement, cases of water […]
Financial Preparedness – 18 Honest Ways to Earn Money From Home
If you are working a steady 9-5 type job and you work for only one employer, you are still in the majority. There is another type of person going from one job to another either during the same day or in the form of temporary work or they work for multiple […]
Is There too Much Month Left at the End of Your Money?
You can find the first three parts of this Financial Preparedness series here, here, and here. Pretend with me that it’s August 20th. You head to your pantry to see what you can make for dinner and realize that the pantry is rather sparse. Since you don’t want to dig […]
Do You Believe in Financial Preparedness?
Financial Preparedness and Good Friday Seven and a half years ago I was sitting in church on Good Friday. Dutiful Mom that I was, I had all four of my little ‘ducklings’ in a row (#5 was still in the middle of brewing) because my husband was in front of […]
20 Unexpected Ways to Save $50 from Your Monthly Budget
I had mentioned in a recent newsletter that I took a trip to Kansas City. Last year I was diagnosed with a gene mutation which causes early onset heart disease. I tend to be a bit ‘crunchy.’ While having a stent (or two or three or four) put in or […]
Save Money on Long-Term Food Storage Every Day of the Week
There are few things I love more than getting a bargain and saving money. Having a well-organized house is one of them, but the ability to find a good bargain in order to save money is high up there on my list. I used to almost be a professional couponer. […]

