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365 Day Meal Plan:Week One Remix

February 6, 2012

We’re back to Week One with our 365 day meal plan this week. The first four weeks have been fairly simple in terms of shopping and cooking meals, though we have had to make some accomadations over those weeks as well. Overall though we’re seeing a huge savings over the previous month in groceries and [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Week 4 Menu

January 31, 2012

Apologies for the delay in Monday’s meal plan, due to downtime and malware infecting my site I was unable to get this up in time. Without further ado an update on meal planning. We’re in week four of my 365 meal plan, and so far even with crazy busy schedules, and a never-ending cold that [...]

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Built-In Desk Inspires Organizing & $100 Lowe’s Giveaway

January 27, 2012

I didn’t realize when I started organizing that it was going to make me feel so revitalized. Several days into it I started to feel so free and rejuvenated. I started to organize to finally begin my built-in desk project. I don’t have a junk drawer. I have had a junk room, otherwise known as [...]

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New Year, New Budget, New Attitude

January 25, 2012

Starting 2012 on the right financial foot is a resolution many people share. We’re only a few weeks into the new year and you may already feel defeated, but it’s not too late to get organized, and turn 2012 into the year you become a money ninja. One of my resolutions was to spend more [...]

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365 Meal Plan: Update and Week 2 Menu

January 16, 2012

It’s Monday which is meal planning day in our house, but thankfully I don’t need to come up with anything new since I have my 365 day meal plan rotation in full effect. If you haven’t seen it yet, I made a template for you to make your own rotating meal plan that repeats throughout [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Menu Plan Monday

January 2, 2012

How simple would it be if you had a meal plan for the full year? Last year I tried (and failed) to cook at home 365 days, but have renewed passion for this idea as well as a new plan that will make it easier. It’s rather simple. I put together 4 weeks of meals [...]

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Wardrobe in Hiding: Shop in your Closet

May 5, 2010

Jaime Narke is a freelance graphic designer and stay-at-home mom of three. When she isn’t taking care of her family she can be found in her closet. Next month my husband and I are going away for a week without the children. We planned this trip in January and since then I’ve been mentally going [...]

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holiday shopping guide: stay organized

November 25, 2009

We talked about making lists previously on the holiday shopping guide, but we didn’t talk about how we keep track of everything we need to do during the busy holiday season. To keep track of your list if you have a large family, or more than one person is doing the shopping is often cumbersome. [...]

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sale mail email account

November 16, 2009

I wrote a guest post on Consumerism Commentary titled “How to Spend Smarter this Holiday Season.” One of the ideas I mentioned was creating a “sale mail” email account. I got a ton of responses about the idea so I wanted to share it with you. I have been using a separate folder in my [...]

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Letter of Intent

October 23, 2009

This is a guest post from Evan who writes at My Journey to Millions a blog about Estate, Retirement and Investment Planning.  Evan is admitted to Practice Law in the State of New York, but his primary job is as back office support in one a very successful financial planning firm.  Check out his Three [...]

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