Surviving At Home

My curiosity has been piqued by this blog post in which we are introduced to the “Coupon Queen” and the fact that she saves $7,000 a year on her grocery bill simply by using coupons!
My first question: how do you keep track of your savings? Do you have a shoebox full of the year’s grocery [...]

My mortgage broker called me out of the blue last week. We had not spoken in three years since we refinanced our mortgage to help pay for our basement renovations.
I immediately thought that she was looking to drum up business. You know how it goes: you get the phone call, you chit-chat, then they ask [...]

For the last several months I have been stressing a little about budgeting our money better. I’m not sure I like being in charge of the household finances when the quarterly bonus checks aren’t as big as they used to be!
So we’ve been trying to cut down on miscellaneous expenses, which means that mom (aka [...]

It’s amazing to me how many projects I can start but how few I actually finish! I tend to get bored very quickly so I move from project to project and nothing ever gets completed. That’s why it took me 5 years to finish my daughter’s BABY cross stitch sampler! (Luckily she loves the design [...]