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6 Mistakes Broke People Make
As a follow up to the wildly popular (and somewhat controversial) post I ran last week, entitled 6 Lies Broke People Believe, I’ve written a new post outlining some of the mistakes broke people make. As we’ve talked about before here, it is often The Broke Mindset that keeps people struggling financially. Once a person …
The Best Things in Life Are Free – Or Dirt Cheap
As we continue on with the year of gazelle intensity, we continue on to work to find stuff to do that fits within our budget. The best things in life are free, as they say. Or at least “dirt cheap”. We had a wonderful Saturday this past weekend. It’s near the end of January here …
Why You Can’t Save Money on Groceries
Hey friends! This post is a part of a terrific new series that Kayla from Shoeaholic No More is putting together in order to help people save money on groceries. The group involved in this series has a heart to help readers slash their grocery bills. There are many components to teaching people to lower …
What Do You Want to Know About Feeding Your Family for Less?
That’s the question we need you to answer. Or, more aptly put, what hurdles do you encounter when you try and reduce your grocery/eating out budget? The Frugal Farmer team is working on putting a book together that will help you cut your grocery bill tremendously. We want this to be the best book it …
5 Reasons I’m Choosing to Stay Out of Debt
Happy Monday, Frugal Farmer friends! Today we welcome our friend Sarah, from over at The Frugal Millionaire. Sarah’s going to share with us today her top reasons for avoiding credit card debt. Welcome, Sarah! A little backstory: When my husband and I met, we were in about $7,500 of combined credit card debt. We didn’t …
6 Lies That Broke People Believe
I grew up poor. Really poor. Without the help of the welfare system, our income for EVERYTHING after the mortgage payment would’ve been $50 a month for my mom to raise 3 kids on. Being broke sucks. It’s tough, both on adults and on kids, not knowing where your next meal will come from or …
What is Your 2015 Homesteading Plan?
So, you want to be a homesteader, or you are a homesteader: what is your 2015 homesteading plan? Today we’ll talk about how, if homesteading is a goal of yours, you can determine a plan for your 2015 homestead. Even if you live in an urban or suburban area, you can put a plan in …
How We’ll Accomplish Goals That We Failed At Last Year
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that we failed in 2014 to accomplish goals we set in terms of debt payoff. Although we, in total, spent less than we did last year, we didn’t put nearly as much toward debt as we did in 2013, our first year of working toward debt freedom. After …
4 Debt Payoff Mistakes We Made Last Year
As I mentioned in our 2015 goals post, we didn’t put as much money toward paying off debt in 2014 as we would’ve liked to, and I’ve diagnosed 4 debt payoff mistakes that hindered us from performing as well as we could’ve last year. Here’s a list of those 4 debt payoff mistakes, and what …