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You can use any older looking vegetables, carrot peels, onion peels, celery tops, potato peels, etc when making soup stock.  I love making stock because nothing goes to waste! Many times I will store a bag of peelings in the freezer from other dishes that can be thrown in for the stock.    Have stale bread?  Make bread crumbs, croutons, or ribollita (a Tuscon style soup using veggie scraps and

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I wanted to write up a post, mainly for myself but for others as well, on how I've saved money throughout this year and a half of transition and my future plans as well. In the beginning it seemed so expensive buying organic products.  However, now I've learned its cheaper to make most of it myself.  Here is what I've cut out of my budget and made homemade that has saved me loads: Bread - there

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I understand that some honestly do not know how to feed their families without coupons on a frugal budget.  Besides the most important step - praying and seeking God in decisions with your home management - I wanted to share a few basic tips on how I've done this over years without coupons.  Pray & Have Faith!  - you have not because you ask not really sums it all up doesn't it?  Since when is

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I've been meaning to blog about this for a while and by now everyone has heard of this show about "Extreme" Couponing.  The title itself kind of gives you a summarization of what it all entails but there is more to this than meets the eye.  I've seen others become obsessed about couponing to the point its all they talk about.  I wonder to myself - is God so limited to them that he can't provide

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We do a homemade pizza every week but since cheese prices have gone up, I needed to think of a way to still have our pizza but also not use as much cheese.  I cut down on the cheese today and then added on some toppings (mushrooms for me and ham for hubby and daughter).  It really seemed like there was a lot of cheese, even though I used less! I did the calculations and one block of mozzarella

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What does God have to say about finances in His Word?  We see numerous passages that God is against debt and the Christian shouldn't purposely pursue debt but I understand that certain uncontrollable situations (medical bills), can leave us chained up in debt.  It isn't the time to take a handout or to find ways to not pay back what you owe - it is the time to pray and see the mighty hand of God

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Seeing how my life gets very busy during the winter months with homeschooling, I will not be keeping this blog during that time. I hope to return to blogging here next spring/summer. Until then......

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In my budget, you may have noticed that we budget for groceries and then what we call "necessities". You may be wondering what all that entails and I hope to answer that in this post. We are pretty minimal from what we used to be a few years ago when I 'had to have' all different kinds of perfume, hair products, face items, etc. However, I learned I don't need all that and I'm quite content

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Here are 2 free printable budget worksheets I made today, one is blank and the other lists the necessary expenses that I blogged about in my first post here.  I left some blanks at the bottom of the prefilled one in case you need to add more, enjoy! ;-) Free Printable Monthly Budget Worksheet Free Printable Monthly Blank Budget Worksheet

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Even if you have a very large income, budgeting is still important. If you have no budget you have no way of telling how much you spend on what. The easiest way to explain a budget to those who may not understand the concept, is to show you what a budget includes. It is basically a list of items and then you budget an amount for each for the month. I recommend Dave Ramsey's "Total Money Makeover"

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If you have been a long time reader of this blog, you may remember the year that our family of 3 lived on just $80 a month.  I was able to pocket the rest and buy new furniture for my home with the savings!  It was WELL worth the sacrifice and the furniture has special worth to us because of the sacrifice.  People today have forgotten how to sacrifice.  They view sacrifice as the plague and

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You can find out how reasonable your rent is by entering your zip code, rent amount and bedroom size at rentometer.com. You don't have to enter the address, unless you want a more accurate rating, but zip code and the rest is required.  You don't need to sign up for an account to get your results either. As you can see it rates your rent comparing it with 1,000 rental properties within miles of

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Today, we say goodbye to Verizon and parting is such sweet sorrow. I wonder why I paid $90 a month to just talk to my husband at work but we had been with Verizon for 4 years and were very pleased with the service but not the cost.  For those who don't know, we are getting rid of our cell plan and going cell-phone free except for an emergency cell. I had originally posted in my phone deals post

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I asked Candy to share her testimony because she has been used by God as an instrument in my life and hopefully others as well.  This testimony speaks volumes and I know other's hearts will be touched by her story. Bev has asked me if I could do a guest post for her about my husband and my life and our choosing to live simple. It is a pleasure to be able to share a little about how we came to

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You can read the full story here: http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/ways-airlines-gotcha-hidden-fees-aircraft-partner-airlines/story?id=11151842

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The competition is heating up in the cell phone market and Boost Mobile offers unlimited everything - talk, text, web, voicemail, long distance, national coverage and walkie talkie - for just $50 a month!  Boost Mobile even has a nice Android phone from Motorola but the price is hidden and says "only available at stores". I also saw they offer a Blackberry smartphone on a 3G network at $60 a

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I've been thinking for a while how did we ever live without cell phones.  Then it occurred to me that we did live without them!  I started to really examine my cell phone use and realized we barely used 300 of the 750 minutes we got a month with our Verizon plan.  I will call my hubby and a friend but I usually do this from home - so I could have called them from my HOME phone lol.  So why pay

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Some value material goods - cars, houses and lands.  Others may value hobbies, spending time and money in whatever it may be.  Then others, value people and family. When you make major life decisions, such as marriage, children, buying a home and finances - you have to realize what you really value and want out of life and make sure your future spouse does too!  What brings you the most joy?  

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I've decided to go ahead and re-open this blog again. If you had an email subscription, it is still valid if you got this update in your email. Not sure what I plan to post on here next but enjoy the old posts in the meantime! ;-) If you have any requests on posts, simply leave me a comment, thanks!

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On my other blog, we had more votes and the majority also voted more in the $80 and up category but here are the results from this blog's poll: $0-35   0 (0%) $35-45   0 (0%) $45-60   0 (0%) $60-80   1 (33%)  $80 and above   2 (66%) We have 1400 square foot home and our energy costs are at the most - $60 a month. It used to be higher when we lived in a smaller, 700sq foot, 2 bedroom

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Please vote in the new poll on my sidebar! How much do you spend a month on electric/gas (Energy) costs? I'm talking about Summer months - that is without the heat on, unless of course you live in a cold climate. Thanks for all that participate! Poll is now closed.

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I like how she says coupons are cash. If you are already buying something and have a coupon for it - that coupon really is cash! Also she says, if you don't have time to coupon, you just haven't been broke enough yet lol. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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Since mid-February we have paid over $1,000 on our medical bills and then incurred some new ones from my many doctor visits/hospitalization and still waiting on the full hospital bill, which we will probably owe around $1,800 but we don't have it yet, so it is not included in the amount.We are down to owing just $2,460! I'm so excited at watching the amount go down over the past year and a half

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You can watch for free Dave Ramsey's 3-part Series on Life. Money. Hope; Biblical Advice in Difficult Times: Week 1 - Basics of Biblical Finance Week 2 - Breaking the Bondage of Debt Week 3 - Myth About Money http://www.lifechurch.tv/message-archive/watch/life-money-hope Here are some of my favorite quotes from the series: "You need to learn to live on LESS then you make" ~ Proverbs 21:20 "

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