So, if you’re a writer, you’ll understand this. As I was writing my post for Fruclassity -the site I own along with Ruth from Prudence Debt Free – this week, I started to get super passionate about the subject of saving money. Before I realized it, I was issuing a challenge to readers to spend …
Gardening for self-sufficiency is different than gardening for fun. When we lived back in the suburbs, we had a small 10×15 or so garden plot, and each year we’d sit down and talk about what “fun” types of things we’d attempt to grow for the year. Preservation had that same “fun” theme, as we’d can …
As we navigate through our debt payoff journey, sometimes I find myself falling into some self-pity modes. Why did we get ourselves into such a mess? Why don’t we make more money?
Setting goals is something I do personally and we do as a family every single year. Usually, I look forward to these goal-setting session with great anticipation. This year, not so much. It’s been an exhausting year here from a personal standpoint, and although we are praising God that we came through the many bumps …
Hey, frugal friends! As I wrote on Fruclassity on Monday, I’ve got a serious itch to dump the remainder of our consumer debt this year and to lower our mortgage as well. Not sure what’s prompting it, but the urge has been going strong for three straight weeks now. The conspiracy theorist in me tells …
This is a subject I don’t really care to talk about but at the same time, I realize how necessary it is. For the 3rd part of our Rational Prepping series (see part 1 on Financial prepping here and part 2 on weather-related prepping here) we’re going to talk about how to be prepared for …
If you’re joining us late, you might want to go back and read Rational Prepping Part 1: Financial before reading part two here. We’re talking in this series about the fallacy that prepping is only for the “crazies”. As my blogging pal Shannon, from Financially Blonde learned after going 10 days without electricity courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, …
I read an article this week about how preppers are “crazy”. The article’s point was that many people are going overboard, spending gazillions of dollars on prepping for Armageddon-type events and circumstances. I get the author’s point: there are indeed some preppers out there – probably more than we know – who aren’t “rational prepping” …
For years – years – Rick and I struggled to overcome debt. We failed every time. Oh, there were times of debt freedom, but we inevitably fell back into debt again. So what made the difference for us between failing at getting out of debt and succeeding at getting out of debt? One huge key …
Greetings, Frugal Farmer friends! Today we welcome Tina Roth, a blogging cohort who blogs over at ProFinance blog . Read this awesome article and then head over and check out the great articles on Tina’s blog. True, mistakes do give you the chance to learn, but repetitive mistakes lower the odds of success. Making …
