Budgeting Tips

Sometimes life gets really busy and so we need to catch the occasional meal out. But that doesn’t mean that we have to break our budget. Eating out is a fun time that we can try new restaurants and new food. Here are some ideas on how to get to free meals [...]

I hear from people all the time that it is so hard to start saving. Well that is because they don’t have a anchor. They need to have something that will hold them to there goal. Let’s face it, saving just doesn’t sound that fun. But saving to pay for a car in cash; or [...]

What do you spend on Groceries? I ask people this simple question, and a lot of the time, they have no idea. If you don’t know what you spend then you have no idea how to set up a plan and a goal to save on your food cost.
I get cash enough for two weeks [...]

What is a family to do with limited spending money and lots of energy? In this new series, I will be giving practical ways to entertain your family while staying true to your vision. Who knows you might even have more fun doing things with your family. All because you are not stressed out about [...]

Free days: What is that? We call them white days at our house. That means there is nothing on the calendar all day long. Praise God, I love those days. We usually start those day’s as Pajama day’s. And if we are lucky it stays that way until well after noon.

This is one of our favorite things to do. We love playing on the grass that we don’t have to mow. Smell the flowers that we don’t have prune, and play on monkey bars that we didn’t have to build. We have great parks were we live and I am sure you do too.
So try [...]

As you well know, you can’t really spend $100 per person to a major league game and stay on your budget. What if I told you that you could take your whole family to a minor league game for about half the price?

Once a month we try to have a game night with 3 other family’s. This is great fun. I have a list of families in my day timer that Rod and I wanted to invite over. Then I put in my calendar game night and start sending out e-invites.
Kids are welcome and they can play [...]

Think about it, what makes a movie fun to go to? Is it really the movie or is it the smells, the environment, and the anticipation? So we sought out to make movie night at the house just as fun. We start out making pizza (Dijornos frozen pizza) and put out special drinks that they kid’s don’t get everyday (Tomas Kemmper, Lemon aid with mint and seltzer water).

We love to have family fun day at our house. Last week we went tubing down the Nooksack River. It was kind-of a spur of the moment decision and we had not been tubing in years. It was such a adventure. We started at 1:00 and didn’t get out of the water until [...]