As the primary money manager in our house, I'm usually on top of things when it comes to Kev's pay schedule. I usually know his pay schedule better than he does - ha! You can probably imagine the surprise that I had when I woke up on Friday morning and saw that Kev's paycheck had NOT been deposited as I had anticipated. For some reason, I was thinking he got paid the last Friday of … [Read more...]
May End of the Month Grocery Budget Challenge {Update}
Last week, I posted about my end of the month grocery budget situation and the fact that I only had $20 in our grocery envelope and still had an entire week until payday. I was determined to see if I could make a menu and do my shopping with what cash I had left. Below is the menu I had created, but the week didn't play out exactly as I had planned. I had some family in town and that … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Save Money by Using Coupons
A few weeks ago, I posted about 7 ways we save on groceries and I've decided to break down some of those concepts a little further. I talked more in-depth about menu-planning, posted about how to shop the grocery store sales, and talked about starting your stockpile last time. All of those topics are great ways to reduce your grocery bill, without clipping a single coupon. But, since I … [Read more...]
5 Tips for Shopping Grocery Store Sales
Welcome back to another week of The Teacher's Salary series. Feel free to leave me a comment or send me an email if you have any suggestions for future topics. Click HERE to see links to some of my previous posts from this series. Three weeks ago, I posted about 7 ways we save on groceries and I've decided to break down some of those concepts a little further. … [Read more...]
7 Ways We Save on Groceries
Welcome back to another week of The Teacher's Salary series. Click HERE to see links to some of my previous posts from this series. {Note: This post contains affiliate links. Read disclosure here.} One of the biggest ways we've been able to save money each month is by reducing our grocery budget. I've always been conscious of what we spent on our groceries, but since choosing to live on … [Read more...]