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5 Ways I Saved & Earned This Week – Volume 4

March 9, 2020 by Penny 4 Comments
Picnic Dinners at the Park to Save More This Week

What a week it’s been in the personal finance world. The market turmoil continues, as does the panic over COVID-19 the fact that our local Target can’t quite seem to keep up its stock of toilet paper or frozen pizza.  Unlike some people, I’m not choosing to tune out the daily news cycle. Instead, I’m choosing … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Make, Save Tagged: education, family, family money, freelancing, impulse buys, shopping, side hustle, Target, teaching, toddler

5 Ways I Saved & Earned This Week – Volume 2

February 24, 2020 by Penny 14 Comments
5 Ways I Saved and Earned This Week Look Back

Do you do that thing before bed each night where you refresh your account balances? No? Maybe it’s just me. I’m not entirely sure what it is I think I’ll find, but I suppose on some level, I’m checking to see whether or not I still need to set my alarm clock for work. Of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Save Tagged: Fetch, impulse buys, Job Spotter, meal planning, meal prep, meatless, Shopkick, vegetarian

7 Ways I’m Curbing Impulse Spending Over the Holiday Weekend

January 20, 2020 by Penny 3 Comments
7 Ways I'm Curbing Impulse Spending This Holiday Weekend

There’s a scene in the movie Clueless where Alicia Silverstone’s character is accused of being aimless. She insists that she has direction, and is promptly chided, “Towards the mall!” That, friends, was me in a nutshell for years. Decades really.  I didn’t have any concrete financial ambitions or direction. And I shopped like it was … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Save Tagged: baking, consumerism, create, creating, creative, decluttering, impulse buys, sales, saving, shopping, spending

Everything I Tried to Buy My Toddler This Weekend

October 7, 2019 by Penny 8 Comments
We Bought Toy Trucks Of Course

Does money ever just feel like it’s burning a hole in your pocket? If I’m being honest, that’s a big reason why I don’t carry cash. It’s too easy and too tempting to spend. But even when I’m budgeting, tracking my expenses, and tucking paper bills out of sight and out of mind, I still … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Spend Tagged: impulse buys, kids, mom, motherhood, shopping, toddler

The Impulse Buy That Wasn’t and What I Bought Instead

September 16, 2019 by Penny 13 Comments
Free visit to a train

The email hit my inbox around 2 am. If you know anything about Target and their designer collaborations, this is not all that unusual. In fact, it’s pretty standard. What was different about this designer launch is that I…slept through it. In years past, I would sit up and watch the minutes click by. Would … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Spend Tagged: children, Depot Days, frugal, impulse buys, Target, toddler, weekend

4 Things That Still Surprise Me About Frugality

January 30, 2019 by Penny 9 Comments
4 Things that Surprise Me About Frugality

For some people, frugality comes naturally. I. Am. Not. Some. People. But I have adopted a fairly frugal lifestyle for the past few years, and I like it. I really do. We are much more intentional with our spending. The constant influx of of stuff has stopped. I wreak far less havoc on the environment. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Save Tagged: clutter, consumer culture, consumerism, frugal, frugality, habits, impulse buys, materialism, shopping, spending

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