perspective – Seriously Frugal

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

Book Giveaway Time

As a HUGE thank you for blessing us with your visits, we are giving away your choice of one of the three financial books that I have done a review on for IG. Please know that these books were purchased used and then read again, so they are extra loved.

The winner’s book will be shipped via USPS media mail and we cannot guarantee that you will receive the book. Due to high shipping costs, we are so sorry, but this is only open to US residents. This giveaway is not associated with any author or Instagram.

All you need to do to be put into the drawing to win is:

March 1, 2020March 2, 2020

Reflection on our low-spend February

We did it, we completed the low-spend February and now that we are on the other side of it, I wanted to reflect upon what we learned as a family through this experience.

We saved a total of $285.00. That’s it. Why? Because we figured out this month that we truly are Seriously Frugal. If you look at this recent post, you’ll see that we are pretty hard core about saving money in all aspects of our lives. There is only one area of our spending where we could cut back, and that would be groceries. But, we eat at home almost almost 100 percent of the time and, with 4 teens, food goes fast. Plus, living with chronic illnesses, many of the less expensive foods, like grains or packaged foods with lots of additives or preservatives, I simply cannot eat.

November 5, 2019January 4, 2020

who doesn’t love a list?

“Failing to plan is planning to fail”
– Unknown

There is something about lists that make me intrinsically happy. I actually enjoy writing down what I hope to accomplish over a specific period of time, be it that day or 5 years from now.

These lists allow me to plan and to dump all the thoughts bouncing around in my mind and free up space. But what I enjoy doing even more than writing out a list is crossing things off. Yep, I actually get a small rush of happiness each time I take my pen and make a horizontal line through the achievement written on my index card, which is now my preferred way to write out my lists (using both sides, of course). Sure, I could create a list on my phone but then that would deprive me of drawing a line, and that is more than half the fun of creating a list in the first place.