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...]
5 Ways We Save on Utility Bills {with some other ideas to consider}
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. Today's topic is ways we save on utility bills. Next to our rent or mortgage payment each month, the largest expense is our monthly utility bills. And when I … [Read more...]
How {and why} We Started a Weekly Budget Check-in
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. As you may remember from my fall book review post, I recently completed Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace Revisited* book. One of the chapters that resonated with me … [Read more...]
5 Benefits to Setting Financial Goals
I'm so excited to be getting back into my routine and The Teacher's Salary Series posts. Click HERE to see links to some of my previous posts. Yesterday, I posted about My 15 Goals for 2014. If you aren't a goal-setter, perhaps you will consider giving it a try this year? Today is sort of a piggy-back on that topic of goal setting, but I'll be talking a little more specifically about … [Read more...]
The Teacher’s Salary Series: Ways to Save at Christmas {Travelling/Road Trips}
For today's Ways to Save at Christmas post, I thought I would talk a little bit about how to save money on travelling by car. {We haven't been flying as much lately so I'm sticking to driving for this post}. Since both sets of parents {and aunts, uncles, and cousins} all live out of town, we tend to travel at the holidays - it's just a matter of how far depending on who we are … [Read more...]