Budgeting Inexpensively

31 Day Budget (Day 29): Selling on eBay & Craigslist

31 Days to a Better Budget Selling on eBay & Craigslist Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. If you are looking to generate some extra money this year, consider becoming a seller on eBay or Craigslist. I am not talking [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 28): Taking Surveys to Boost Your Budget

31 Days to a Better Budget Taking Surveys to Boost Your Budget Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. I have to be honest up front and say now that I am a full time teacher and full time blogger, I [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 26): Increasing Income

31 Days to a Better Budget Increasing Income Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. For the last several weeks, we’ve organized our budget and shared money saving ideas to help lower it. However, there’s another part to the budget equation [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 25): Managing Finances Together

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31 Day Budget (Day 24): Cash Back Shopping

Cash back shopping is such a great way to stretch any budget, especially the clothing budget for kids!


31 Day Budget (Day 23): Applying Rebates to Your Budget

31 Days to a Better Budget Applying Rebates to Your Budget Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. A few months ago, Kay Lynn from Bucksome Boomer shared great tips on mail-in rebates—free after rebate, mail-in offer & cash back shopping [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 22): Stretching Your Budget with Freebies

31 Days to a Better Budget [%postname%] Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. Companies are trying to get your attention and one way is by providing free samples of their products. If they can just get you to try it, [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 21): Shopping Off-Season

31 Days to a Better Budget [%postname%] Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. Stretching our budget means planning ahead. Further ahead than this week’s grocery list. Even further ahead than our next oil change. We plan seasons ahead. Sometimes an [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 20): Making Daily Deals Work for You

31 Days to a Better Budget [%postname%] Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. The group buy craze has progressed to unreal proportions—it seems every day there is a new site I’ve never heard of or a deal too good to [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 18): Using Coupons

31 Days to a Better Budget Using Coupons Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. If you’re already a coupon user, the idea of grocery savings is not new, but there is always room for improvement for an even lower budget. [...]