Hi friends! I hope you all had a nice and relaxing weekend. We didn't to that much, it was more of a laid back weekend. I was able to drop off a whole bunch of bags to the consignment store, and had a fun wine night with two close friends besides that it was family hang out time - which is fine for me!
One of the things on my mind lately has been saving money. I feel like our family could be way better at budgeting and saving. We have never had a set "budget" and some months save more money than other months or some months not save at all which is unacceptable. I'm still on the hunt for budget printout that I feel would work best for our family. I want to sit down with the hubs since he does the finances and make a realistic budget for our family.
A couple of the things that I've done to try to save some money is one - unsubscribe from all of the emails about sales or store promotions. I wouldn't say that I shop a lot, but getting emails in your inbox daily about sales does make me want to spend money even if I'm not in NEED of anything and a lot of times that I do shop, it's because of an email that I got. From now on, I'm going to shop when I need an item (unless I'm in Target, then I have no control) and find the deal that's best at that time. The second thing I did was let go of my cleaning lady. I had someone come once a month to clean. It's hard to clean a house with two kids that constantly need and want your attention, but I'm going to give it a try. I'm setting up a cleaning schedule and going to clean something in my house everyday so the house is constantly clean. It is a great feeling when the cleaning lady came and viola! the whole house was clean at once, but I'm going to give this a try and save over $100 a month by doing so.
What are your tips/tricks to saving? Do you have a budget you stick to?
GOOD advice about the daily e-mails! So true..I'm sure I'd save a TON of money if I just limit them from my email entirely.
I'm guilty with the shopping emails, too! So many times I've thought "this is such a good deal, I HAVE to buy it"!
Saving money is so tough, we finally created a family budget that we're sticking to this year, but it's hard with kids!!! That meme is hilarious!
I'm constantly trying to save money too! We don't stick to a budget but I'm trying to keep track of all our spending this year. I plan on writing down every single item we purchase a month and seeing all our other bills to see how much we have left over. It's tough!
I was just thinking today I needed to get rid of all the sales emails. It really does feed my shopping addiction!
I feel like I am always trying to find ways to save money and cut costs so we can spend our money better. I love that I am not the only one! We cut out a cleaning lady and after a while it just became part of life to not have her anymore! A budget is such a good thing!
The shopping emails def get ya! I put myself on a no-shopping-limit a few years ago for 6 weeks. I'm going on one again...sometime soon! :)
I'm so happy I found your blog! Xoxo
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