How to budget for a 3-paycheck month, Part 2. This isn’t a post about what to spend your 3rd paycheck on; it’s a post about how to adjust your budget when you get three paychecks in one month—and why you have to look at a total of two months of paychecks before you do anything […]
FSAs Are a Losing Bet for Healthy Families. That’s Why We Put $0 into Our Flexible Spending Account
Your FSA isn’t really “tax free” money if you pay Stupid Tax trying to spend it all by the deadline. My husband just gave himself a raise by not funding a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) this year. In this Found Money post (#6 in the series): Why FSAs are a losing bet for healthy families […]
Found Money Fund Files #5: That $50 Shell Gas Gift Card at the Intersection of Procrastination and Money
I’m a procrastinator. Like, the hipster procrastinator—I’ve been a procrastinator since 1983 when my mom had to drive 60 minutes round trip to Moskatels in Sunnymead to buy foam balls for my 3rd grade solar system model due tomorrow. A major symptom of procrastination is perfectionism. If I can’t cut the Cool Whip lid just […]
Fast Food in Your Freezer for Busy Nights: Grocery Budget Tracking #5 March 1–15
This is the 5th post of my Grocery Budget Tracking in 2018! Can you feed your family a Clean Eating diet and still come in under your grocery budget? I’m about to find out! This is the real grocery budget of our family, who eats 15 pounds a week of pastured meat…and sometimes Poptarts. In […]
Grocery Budget Tracking #4: Final Grocery Spending for February 2018
This is the 4th post of my Grocery Budget Tracking in 2018! Can you feed your family a Clean Eating diet and still come in under your grocery budget? I’m about to find out! This is the real grocery budget of our family, who eats 15 pounds a week of pastured meat…and sometimes Poptarts. In 2018, […]
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