44 Ways We Saved in March & April

Ways We Saved In March & April

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Gorgeous on a Goodwill Budget

Gorgeous on a Goodwill Budget

This week’s fantastic thrift store buys.

Yes, we shop at thrift stores and rummage sales.

Does this mean we look like we are poor and only wear hand me downs?

Nope!  We actually have people stop my girls and ask them where they got their outfit from.

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March’s County Market Shopping Trip

This month’s County Market’s shopping trip was more than a bit unusual and cut short due to my daughters health and trying fit our items into a scooter/electronic shopping basket.  I chose to skip several items as they were heavy or awkward and we needed to leave as my daughter was struggling but I decided to share the purchases I did make as well as my new shopping secret weapon.

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What is a Clever Shopper?

What makes a clever shopper?

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How We Earned An Extra $137.08 In February

As many of you know my oldest daughter and I are unable to work “regular” 9-5 jobs due to our health issues and the need to be with my youngest, who has even more extreme health issues, so to compensate we have added some “side jobs” we can do from home, a hospital room or even my family’s when we are visiting.

Because we began our new direct sales business with Clever Container and my youngest had some major setbacks we spent VERY little time on “side jobs” but we still earned a bit.

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Budget Results February 2016

I shared our February expected expenses and budget here at the beginning of February and now that life has slowed down a bit I want to share how that plan worked for us including where we saved and gulp overspent.

We saved (came in UNDER budget) on the following:

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30+ Ways We Saved & Earned This Week

This week we share all the ways we saved and earned, including tools and links for items we used or substituted.

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20+ Ways We Saved & Earned This Week and You Can Too

Ways We Saved & Earned This Week and You Can Too

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This Week’s Shopping Haul $193.13

This Week’s Shopping Haul $193.13

Restocking for the month

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February Budget Snapshot

Many if you have asked specifically about our budget and I have made the decision to share it with you.

Please note: I will not be sharing our actual income and total expenses due to conflict and split family issues, but I will share our list of bills and how well we do controlling our gas, food and supplies costs since I can control those.

We are skipping January due to the fact it has already passed and I didn’t keep super great records but I do know we spent around on $200 on groceries and supplies for the ENTIRE month while we implemented the “Just Make Do January” challenge.

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