Earlier this month, Barb of Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance, Christine of Money Funk and Laura of Move to Portugal and little old me entered into a spending challenge to decrease expenses for the month of June in a few expense areas that we thought could be easily ...
Category Archives: food
How to make your own coolers aka wobbly pops
I talk a lot about wobbly pops on this site (and no, I’m not an alcoholic). What’s a wobbly pop? According to the Urban Dictionary: Any beverage that contains alcohol, for the purpose of human consumption, and is referred to by a person from Newfoundland. Wobbly pops are ...
The money taboo that should stay taboo – talking to others about their finances
We all know people who are having financial difficulties. We’d all even like to help those people by giving them some free advice on how to get out of debt or make their paychecks go further. (Oh how we love giving advice!) Some of us actually do help out financially by giving money to our ...
The $10,000 Trick to a Rainy Day Fund that just grows and grows
When I first got myself out of debt and began to save money years ago, it took quite a long time to accumulate a balance of $10,000 in my checking account thanks to my underearning ...
Posts I liked from Yakezie people #2
I’m feeling a wee bit demoralized because pretty much everyone on the Yakezie finance network has better numbers than I do. Boo hoo. So my guess is that either my writing really sucks or I’m doing something else wrong – ie. not marketing. I’ll tell myself that it’s the latter and go drown my ...
Booyah! The pantry reduction game is working!
Last week, I started playing the “pantry reduction game.” The game was inspired by this post from fellow blogger Financial Samurai - great blog – I highly recommend that you read it!:Play Games to Save Money and Achieve Your GoalsThe rules of the game are that I cannot buy anything at the grocery ...
Dirty 30’s dieting – it’s easy to lose weight when your family is starving
I was talking with a couple of friends online recently about how dieting and the American diet specifically has changed over the years. People who lived through the depression of the 1930’s never seemed to lose their innate deprivation mindsets – I know that both my 90 year old father and my grandmother (born in ...