I’ve been grocery shopping at WinCo Foods for 20 years. Every month or so, WinCo parks several full shopping carts inside the entrance showing the total price paid at WinCo vs. local grocery stores. In Phoenix, WinCo compares Fry’s (Kroger) and Safeway/Albertson’s. It’s not even a fair fight, but the carts are usually filled with […]
How to make a few hundred extra bucks with the credit cards you already use, through referrals.
Make your credit cards work for you! I personally use each of these credit cards. We have two of these credit cards per household—you can apply for a credit card under one adult’s name, then use your referral code to apply in another adult’s name, and score both the opening bonus for the 2nd card […]
How to budget for a 3-paycheck month, Part 2: How to adjust your budget
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, […]
Grocery Budget Tracking 2018: February 1–15. It doesn’t look good.
This is the 3rd 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 […]
Negotiating my internet bill. Or, How I saved $432.12 by not being lazy. Found Money #3
My favorite hobby is collecting Found Money—that’s money I can access outside my regular income. Anything from coupons to credit card points to cash I earn selling my clutter counts as Found Money.” I hate making phone calls to negotiate prices on my accounts, but I hate losing money because I was too lazy to […]
What’s Your Grocery Budget? Final Spending in January! Grocery Budget Tracking #2 Jan 16–31 2018
This is the 2nd post of my Grocery Budget Tracking in 2018: Final Grocery Budget for January! 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 […]
