by Laura | Archive |
This weekend I made 40 meals for less than $30! I made both regular burritos and breakfast burritos. Total supplies for both recipes came to $29.61 (not counting the paper towels and aluminum foil I used to wrap them.) This means each burrito was 74 cents to make! If...
by Laura | Archive |
This week I spent $20 less than usual at the grocery store! Woo-hoo! What has been helping is paying attention to sales, price matching, couponing, and freezer cooking (which I’ll talk more about in a minute..) I don’t use a whole lot of coupons, but look...
by Laura | Archive |
The last few weeks I have slowly began my attempt in lowering our grocery bill. Let’s just say that for two people, it should be less than it is. I decided to start slow and try to increase my savings each week. Our weekly grocery errands usually include Aldi...
by Laura | Archive |
Nearly every bride wants to know easy ways to make her special beautiful, but affordable. So I thought I would share some of the ways I trimmed costs for our big day in April 2012. Wedding Shoes I knew I wanted some simple white flats for wedding shoes. No heels for...
by Laura | Archive |
Once upon a time, I wandered around Menards on my lunch break. Since we bought the house in April, this seems to happen about once a week. But on this particular day, I wandered across a $.19 hallway makeover. That’s right, I found a way to make my hallway look a...
by Laura | Archive |
More Money-Saving Wedding Ideas Wedding Hair I didn’t spend the morning going to a salon to have my hair and makeup done, but it turned out beautifully. My good friend Jodi (my flower girl, Jada’s, mom) has been doing hair for her daughters’ dance events and was...
