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Ways To Save & Frugal Tips

Learn how to save on travel, ways to save money, great money-saving DIY ideas and more! Here’s all the information you need to know on how to save money, the 52 week money challenge and great money saving tips!

27 Creative Ways To Use Wood Pallets

I love looking at DIY projects that involve Wood Pallets! A few years ago I wanted a new patio table. However, the one that I wanted cost more than $300 bucks. Not willing to pay a ton of money for an outdoor table, we decided to create one out of wood pallets. That was my …

30 More Dinner Ideas Under $5 Bucks

30 More $5 Dinners Your Family Will Love When you have growing kids that constantly want to eat you out of house and home, you have to find ways to get creative on dinner ideas. When my kids were little it was easy to fix toddler plates on the cheap. Now I have two teens …

Easy Golf Ball Cupcakes

Father’s Day is just right around the corner! If you’re planning on making that special Dad in your life a sweet treat, how about Golf Ball Cupcakes. While this recipe has several steps, it’s pretty easy to do. Plus I linked an instructional video at the bottom to give you a few tips. {Disclaimer: I …

Cotton Candy Frappuccino Recipe

Love Starbucks Frappuccinos? Then check out this easy copycat Starbucks Recipe! I’m a big, no HUGE fan of Starbucks. They get my money. All. the. time. I’m trying to find ways to save money on my Starbucks problem, so I’m working on making my own copycat Starbucks recipes. Do you like their Cotton Candy Frappuccino? …

Ham & Cheese Muffins Michigan Made Recipe

Put a twist on your regular muffin recipe by making Ham & Cheese muffins! Plus we used Michigan Made products! Corn muffins go great with a hot bowl of chili and these amped-up corn muffins are an even better match. Our corn muffins have ham and cheese and some fresh veggies and lentils. Yes, lentils. …

Ways To Keep Cost Low While Traveling With Kids

If your kids are like mine, as soon as you get in the car ready to travel they start asking for snacks and drinks. How To Keep Cost Low While Traveling With Kids is important to us. Not only does it mean we have more money to spend on big things like theme parks, but it …

Tips for Raising Kids & Paying off Debt FB

We’re down to the last post in this Get out of Debt Series! We started with What Debt Looks Like, then 4 Ways We Conquered Debt, and last we talked about 4 Ways We Changed Our Budget to Become Gazelle Intense. We’ll never be those parents that can afford to buy a brand new car …

4 Ways We Changed Our Budget to Become Gazelle Intense FB

If you’ve been following along in my series, you have found out how we got into debt and how we started conquering that debt. We knew when we started paying off debt that we’d have to change up our lifestyle to begin getting the results that we actually wanted. Here are some real ways that …

4 Ways We Conquered Debt

To continue on from my last post in “our debt series” I already talked about how we got into debt. I talked about what debt looks like and the impact it has on daily living. Getting started on paying off debt is really about hard work, dedication, and a desire to not stay in debt. …

What Debt Looks Like: Read about how we got into Debt and what we're doing about it in this Debt Relief Series

Growing up poor my family didn’t have credit cards or an insane amount of debt, but we were underprivileged and a lot of times went without. When I became an adult I didn’t know anything about money, budgeting, or how debt even worked. I quickly found out what debt looked like after I turned 18 …

DG Memorial Day Centerpiece2

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Dollar General. All opinions are 100% mine. DIY Patriotic Centerpiece: Save on Summer Essentials with Dollar General On a warm sun drenched day the excited laughter of children can be heard as they run barefoot through the cool sprinklers or riding their bikes up …