You often hear stories about people who lived on ramen noodle budgets for a year and paid off massive amounts of student loan or credit card debt. What you don’t hear about is how living on less can transform your entire life. It really can. In fact my entire mindset has changed since the first year when I had no other choice than to make sacrifice after sacrifice. But first, let me rewind a ...
Selling Extra Items to Make Money
As a single mom, it can sometimes be very difficult to find money for extras, never mind make ends meet. Budgeting for everything from school clothes to daycare can be an ongoing nightmare. Luckily, there are lots of ways to make extra money, and some of them are surprisingly simple. ...
The Best Job for Single Moms
As a single mom finding a good job is so hard. There’s nobody to help you get by. You have to pay your own bills and take care of your kids. You have to work every day and then come home to a messy house that you just can’t seem to keep clean, help with homework, chase down little ones, make supper, and get everyone ready for bed. Then you get the pleasure of waking up the next day and doing ...
Why Paper Checks are Not a Thing of the Past
If you’re one of those people who inwardly groans when the customer in line ahead of you at the grocery whips out a checkbook, you might want to rethink your attitude. Yes, debit and credit cards are the most used forms of payment in this digital age, but checks aren’t only for grandmas and other people who have a hard time accepting new technology. There are many reasons why paper checks have ...
How to Happily Live on a Poverty Budget
I’ll have an update on the 7 Day Side hustle later in the week for anyone who’s wondering. Instead of talking about earning more money today I want to talk about the other side of the equation: living on less. Could you happily live on a poverty budget? I think you could. The federal poverty guideline for a family of 3 is $19,970 a year or $1,664 per month. I calculated my bare bones budget ...
The Best Backpacks for Back to School
Ah, the backpack. Used in some form or another for thousands of years by people and cultures around the globe to carry game, tools, other essential items long distances, the term itself was first introduced in the United States in the 1910s, but it wasn't until the 1960s that backpacks as we now know them became a commonplace way for students to carry books, lunches, and personal items around ...