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What Black Friday Critics Miss

November 26, 2021 by Penny 51 Comments

One Facebook friend shopped for eight hours on Black Friday. Another took three friends and filled one shopping cart a piece. I looked at photo after photo as they flooded social media. There were a lot–and I mean A LOT–of shopping hashtags and not a single #OptOutside on my Facebook feed. The Black Friday critics … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Spending Tagged: Black Friday, black friday critics, budget, consumerism, Cyber Money, gifts, holidays, shopping

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

Ice Cream & The Value of a Dollar

February 19, 2020 by Penny 12 Comments
Buying Ice Cream Cones to Learn About Money

There’s so much talk about teaching kids about money. When do you start? How do you start? What’s saying too much versus saying too little? I can’t claim that I have that entirely figured out. Heck, I can’t claim that I have anything about parenting entirely figured out. But I do know that our toddler does already … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Spend Tagged: budget, family, family money, money lessons, saving, shopping, spending, toddler, toddler money

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

What Should I Put on My Toddler’s Christmas List?

November 20, 2019 by Penny 16 Comments
What Should I Put On My Toddlers Christmas List?

In what can only be described as a Herculean effort fool’s errand, I announced to my family that I wanted to finish Christmas shopping this year by the end of November. The fallout was mighty. However, the most unexpected consequence of my hubris came from my mom. Namely, she met my request with one of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Spend Tagged: Christmas, Christmas list, consumerism, gift giving, gifts, materialism, presents, shopping, toddler

Why We Take Our Toddler Grocery Shopping Every Week

November 18, 2019 by Penny 11 Comments
Why We Take Our Toddler Grocery Shopping Every Week

You probably thought the definition of insanity was doing the same thing twice and expecting different results. That is…until you read the title of this post. Then, maybe you reworked your definition, huh? But we actually purposefully make the choice to take our toddler grocery shopping. Every. Single. Week. And we like the results! In … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Plan Tagged: budgeting, family, grocery budget, grocery shopping, kids money lesson, money lessons, shopping, spending, toddler

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

Everything You Wanted to Know About Denim Recycling with J Crew

April 22, 2019 by Penny 14 Comments

Jeans seem like lifetime investments to me. Not just because they can have a steep price point ($1,200+…gasp!), but because it’s such an ordeal to find the perfect pair. So when I do find a pair, I want to wear them forever. Unfortunately, forever only lasted twelve years, and then my favorite pair was done … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Declutter Tagged: denim, ecofriendly, Habitat for Humanity, J Crew, jeans, Madewell, Marie Kondo, minimalism, recycling, shopping

Shoe Recycling at DSW to Declutter and Earn Cash…Kind Of

March 11, 2019 by Penny 22 Comments
DSW Shoe Recyling Program

In the name of science this blog, I attempted a thing: I recycled my shoes. More specifically, I tried recycling my shoes at DSW. I’ve learned a lot of lessons decluttering. One of the most important lessons is that sometimes things are just garbage. But sometimes things aren’t. That’s how I felt about these shoes. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Declutter Tagged: closet, clutter, consumerism, declutter, decluttering, DSW, DSW VIP, environment, environmentalism, green, recycling, shoe recycle, shoe recyling, shoes, shopping

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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