Shopping Inexpensively

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 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 [...]


Coupons, Rewards *and* Gifts? SWAGG = Awesome x 3

When I first heard about the SWAGG app, I chalked it up as another store loyalty organization tool—which is awesome, of course. Then, I found out about the gift cards—you can not only store & use your gift cards from the phone app but even buy & send gift cards for 10 of their partners [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 19): Shopping Smart

31 Days to a Better Budget Shopping Smart Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. We all know that using coupons can save a ton of money. Coupons are not the only way to save money though. Creating a budget and [...]


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. [...]


31 Day Budget (Day 13): Budget Grocery Shopping

31 Days to a Better Budget Budget Grocery Shopping Each day of the series offers new tips, ideas and a challenge to start the year with a solid financial plan. Today, we begin to tackle specific line items in your budget—we’re focusing on the areas that most people will be able to reduce, like food, [...]


Heart of Haiti – Support Haitian Artisans

The concept of giving inexpensively can take on many forms. You may find everyday ways to help others one day and gifts to give friends, family & charity with what you already have, the next. It’s about working within your budget to make a difference in someone’s life. Part of that is shopping with a [...]