Handmade Lunch Sack

Since I have been bring my lunch to work with me I decided to make myself feel like I am going to having this nice relaxing lunch time. So I made myself a vintage lunch sack. I used the pattern that I found in bend-the-rules sewing and I used old vintage fabric that I inherited from my mother in-law. (Some of the fabric in the box dates back to the fifties.)

Another Way to Save Save Money!

Monday is the day I’m going to start saving from going out to lunch to brown bagging it. I do bring my lunch but only about two times a week and the rest of the week I am weak and go with coworkers to lunch, which is costing me about $5.00 a day (sometimes less and sometimes more). When that $5.00 could go to something much more important like my mortgage! That will be a savings of about $60.00 a month. Bring my total savings to…($98.00) and counting.

Coupon Clipping

I’m giving coupons a try again after fifteen years. I figure that it kept me from starving to death in college, so then it can keep food on my table in these economic hard times. I just cut my first batch and printed my first batch of coupons from Coupon.com. This was the easiest and best site I found so far. I will let you know how the shopping went and savings went on my next entry.

Debt Free

A family that saves together stays together.

Today was the day that I cut up all of my credit cards except one for emergency only. I hope to have them paid off with in the next year which will give ma a saving of $150.00 a month. I placed all the pieces in a jar and placed them on my desk to remind me of my goal and that I never want to be in debt again, which in turn will be the biggest savings for my family.

Saving Quest

There must be more to life than having everything. Maurich Sendak


Our quest to save! With a family of five, two females and 3 males, we all shave. When asked to purchase more razors, my first response was, “I just bought razors.” The teacher in me came out and I did the math. We as a family are consuming 8 to 10 triple bladed razor heads a month. Costing us $1.75 each a cost of $17.50. With our savings quest in mind I found razors for $0.42 each a total of $4.20 a month saving us $13.30. Come to find out all of us like the 42 cent razors better and they seem to last longer as well, which will equate to more savings.
Total monthly savings $38.30 our goal is to save and be less stressed in the end. Giving us more quality time with the children.

Time to Save

I find myself trying to save, save on food, save on house hold products, and ways to save on energy. This economy is taking a toll on my family. My family finds themselves living on a single income after always just surviving on two. I know that it is not just happening to my family, but many others as we find ourselves being touched by these economic hard times.

Saving, Saving and more saving. What have we been doing as a family to save? First thing we have cut back on renting movies for the family saving us any where between $20.00 to $30.00 a month. You ask what do we do instead with a house of teenagers! Yes I said teenagers and we can't watch a movie... We have become a family of the good old board games, which has in turn brought our family closer together. It has created a great time to communicate and enjoy one another's time. So I should say this saving thing has been challenging but it has also brought us together and created a much closer family!

I will continue sharing our saving tips that in turn are bring us all closer.