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Living Within a Budget – It’s Not as Hard as You Think

December 19, 2019 by jlpenner Leave a Comment

Wouldn’t it be nice to just spend money as if it didn’t matter?  I would LOVE to walk in to a store sometimes and just buy my favorite outfit, never looking at the price tag.  But that is not something many of can do, so we have to think about living within a budget. It can be intimidating to say the least, you know where your money is going and to whom, but how can you live with what is {Read More}

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3 Easy Ways to Comparison Shop (and Save Money!)

December 5, 2019 by jlpenner Leave a Comment

  We all know that comparison-shopping saves money, and chances are you’ve done it before to great effect. Most people only do it on major purchases like appliances, furniture, or electronics because it’s time consuming and requires a fair amount of forethought. Well, times have changed. There’s no reason to overspend on almost anything anymore. Technology has made comparison-shopping quick and painless in some unlikely ways: Also Read: You Have to Change Your Mindset to Save Money 1. Major Comparison {Read More}

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How to Make Your House Feel Clean Even When You Don’t Have Much Time

August 29, 2019 by jlpenner 61 Comments

How to Make Your House Feel Clean As any Lazy Girl knows, housework is the pits. Now, I know there are those of you out there that LOVE to clean. But I am a Lazy Girl.. so that is not me. Yet even Lazy Girls can’t have a gross home. If I was not a Frugal Girl, too, I would have a housecleaner.  I had a house cleaner come out one time because I got a Groupon.  It was AMAZING.  {Read More}

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How I Save 50-70% on Lean Ground Beef

May 31, 2018 by jlpenner 48 Comments

How I Save 50-70% on Lean Ground Beef

Lean ground beef is so expensive these days. Even on sale I find it difficult to get 93% lean for less than $3.99 a lb and normally it is $4.99 a pound or more. My I often see much fattier beef for considerably less. In fact, my local ethnic markets has in on sale once a month or so for as low at $1.09 a lb. But the problem is that this is so fatty. Sure you can drain it, {Read More}

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6 Tips on How to Save Money on Food

April 7, 2018 by jlpenner 1 Comment

Sometimes the hardest place to try and save money is the grocery store (but you are going to find out how it just might be the easiest!).  Prices keep going up and as your family grows up, they tend to eat more.  What’s a mom to do?  Here are 6 fantastic ways to save money at the grocery store that don’t require too much effort.  You will get the grocery budget down before you know it! Here are 6 Tips {Read More}

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Spring Cleaning Checklist (Free Printable)

April 13, 2017 by jlpenner 1 Comment

Who’s ready to do some Spring Cleaning?? If it were up to me.. I would rather someone ELSE might do mine.  But that’s not going to happen, so how about a Spring Cleaning Checklist to help out? Better than nothin’ 😉 (as a note this is from my site when we used to be Thrifty Wifey, so it still has that logo on it.) Don’t forget you can also print out our Monthly Cleaning Schedule, too. There are also some {Read More}

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