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Top 3 Ways to Save Money on Funerals

July 12, 2012 By Kelly Kinkaid 2 Comments

It’s not necessarily a pleasant thing to think about, planning a loved one’s funeral, but chances are at some point in your life you will have to be part of the planning process of a loved one’s funeral. According to Funeralwise.com’s quick plan calculator funeral costs can range from $355 (donating the body to science […]

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8 Great Ways to Save Money Socially

April 26, 2012 By Kelly Kinkaid 5 Comments

As mentioned in Living on One Income: One Family’s Process I talked about how hard it was for my husband and I to give up our social life to save money. Before we had kids we were always out spending money and doing fun expensive things with our friends. But one of the decisions we […]

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8 Ways to Save Money While Holiday Cooking

November 28, 2011 By Kelly Kinkaid 1 Comment

Often times one of the scariest times to hit the stores is when you are getting ready to shop for your holiday feasts. I myself can remember many times in which seeing the printing out of my grocery bill would cause me to break out into a sweat. Fortunately I have discovered that holiday cooking […]

Filed Under: Food, Holiday Tagged With: cooking, Food, Holiday, holiday cooking, holiday saving, holiday savings, Save Money, save money on holidays, save on the holidays, saving money

7 Ways to Save while Holiday Shopping

November 22, 2011 By Kelly Kinkaid 1 Comment

The winter holidays tend to be the time of year that makes me lose my mind with joy. I love everything about it. I love the decorating, the food, the cookies, Santa, snow men, holiday concerts, cold weather, the fact that it is the only time of year we’re not in soccer season, etc. Because […]

Filed Under: Holiday, Money, Shopping Tagged With: Gift, Holiday, holiday shopping, Money, Save Money, saving money, Shopping

Bicycle to save money, go green, and get healthy

March 17, 2010 By Kelly 11 Comments

Brandon Joerges is a year-round cyclist in Southeast Michigan. Brandon’s 14Bikes blog is a part of his campaign to help communities and businesses that want to shrink congestion without losing customers understand that up to 14 bikes can fit in one standard parking space and bicycling has benefits for everyone. In America, for the first […]

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Save Money with Membership

May 8, 2009 By Kelly 12 Comments

Purchasing a membership is one way you can save, and still enjoy getting out of the house. Reciprocal memberships are memberships you can purchase to a museum, garden or other attraction that gives you the benefit of getting you into similar places. For instance, this membership to The Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia grants you […]

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: frugal, gardens, Life, membership, museums, reciprocal membership, Save Money

No Spend Month Update: Final Totals

February 3, 2009 By Kelly Leave a Comment

We’ve reached the end of our 2nd No Spend Month, and I’ve been putting off adding up the final totals knowing the totals weren’t going to be pretty.

We went WAY over where I wanted to be. Clearly the spending diet worked against us this month.

I’ll just get it out of the way, our total spending was $1,764.41. Ouch. Ha, I should call it the Spend Way Too Much Month.

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NO Spend Month (1/1/09-1/31/09)

January 13, 2009 By Kelly 1 Comment

Not spending for a month is not an original idea with me. I found an article in Reader’s Digest about it. I found blog posts about other people who have done a No Spend Month. My favorite example is over at Small Notebook where Rachel and her family participate in a No spend Month yearly. The […]

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5 Lessons I Learned From Our No Spend Month

January 13, 2009 By Kelly 3 Comments

  1. Competition breeds success. It was fun to try to spend less than my husband on unnecessary expenses. It made the challenge exciting. If you don’t have a spouse or partner get a friend or family member involved. And for the record, he won. Learn more: Surround Yourself With Success 2. We usually spend […]

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How To Start A No Spend Month

January 12, 2009 By Kelly 5 Comments

The main reason I started this blog is due to the hugely popular response our No Spend Month story garnered. We were featured in USA Today and on The Today Show as the face of families everywhere who are trying to cut back. I first read about the idea in Reader’s Digest (my grandmother’s yearly […]

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