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The Privilege of Pretending

February 24, 2016 by Penny 35 Comments

My heart started to hammer as I unloaded my grocery cart items onto the conveyer belt and I started to mentally run the numbers. We might not make it under our $200 grocery budget for the month. How could this be? What was different? Did I buy too much fresh produce? Should I put something … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: budget, food, food insecure, groceries, poverty, privilege, SNAP, Tim Ferriss

Tip Yourself: Spark Joy on Your Phone

February 11, 2016 by Penny 2 Comments

This past week, I took a long, hard look at my iPhone. Dozens of apps slotted into folders on my home screen – some apps are overused, some never used, and an overwhelming amount of apps that fell somewhere in between. Midway through my quest to clean up my smartphone a la Marie Kondo and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: app, goals, microsavings, savings, success, technology, Tip Yourself

Frugally Awesome…or Awkward

January 21, 2016 by Penny 31 Comments

Since we’re all friends here and I’m really good at confessing secrets now, I’ll let you in on another one: I’m a supremely awkward human being. Just last week, I was sitting in a work meeting with my boss and my coworker best friend former best friend. Midway through the meeting, I swatted stray hairs … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: clothing, declutter, food, frugality, grocery shopping, hacks, heat, Poshmark, selling, tricks, vegetables

My Return to Couponing & How to Start

January 11, 2016 by Penny 11 Comments

  Over the past month, I’ve gone back to clipping coupons. Not “let’s buy free contact solution even though no one wears contacts” couponing. Not “buried under a mountain of Sunday papers” couponing. I’m not even primarily couponing for things I need. I’m couponing for our food pantry.

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: budget, charity, couponing, coupons, donations, giving, groceries, sales, savings

How Not To Save

January 8, 2016 by Penny 21 Comments

It’s no secret that saving money, paying off debt, and earning extra income are some of my priorities. I’m fortunate to be in a relationship where Mr. P shares the same values. We certainly haven’t always been on the same page financially, but tying the knot and blending bank accounts certainly helped us work towards … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: emergency fun, focus, goals, money, savings, spending

Why I’m Glad Comcast Raised Rates…Again

January 6, 2016 by Penny 26 Comments

If you follow me on Twitter, it’s no secret that I hate paying for cable. Yet, in the great compromise* that is marriage, I’ve continued to shell out for cable since those two glorious weeks when we had no TV or Internet at all when we first got married and a certain someone may or … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: budget, cable, cutting costs, raised rates, savings, television, TV< Comcast

Beyond Financial Fitness in 2016

December 28, 2015 by Penny 4 Comments

With the new year just days away, now seems like a fitting time to look to the future. Many of the posts on She Picks Up Pennies have had a financial focus this past year. Looking ahead, I plan to continue to pay down debt (we’re shooting for well above the $18k mark for 2016!), … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: finances, fitness, goals, investing, savings, spending

To Families Who Gave Teachers Gifts

December 23, 2015 by Penny 5 Comments

To The Families Who Gave Teachers Gifts, I spent the day before winter break writing your children thank you notes that I am fairly confident you will never see. In fact, they’ve probably already been relinquished to the deep recesses of binders next to permission slips, school calendars, and progress reports or banished to the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: gifts, gratitude, kindness, mindfulness, notes, students, teaching, thankful

The Wrong Kind of Dough

December 21, 2015 by Penny 9 Comments

For the past few years, I’ve been tutoring as one of my side hustles. It can be quite lucrative. It can be very fulfilling. It can also be a colossal pain in the patootie. Whenever I think I’ve tightened all the loopholes in terms of cancellations and payments and covered all my bases in terms … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: debt, family, financial independence, money, mortgage, side hustle

Flashback Friday: The F Word

December 18, 2015 by Penny Leave a Comment

Happy Friday, frugal friends! While I’m busy lovingly planning lessons and instructing scraping kiddos off the ceiling before winter break starts next week, I thought I would do a little flashback Friday action to one of the first posts I wrote on the difference between frugality and cheapness. Where do you land?  We’ve all heard it. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: cheap, flashback, frugal
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