by Jamie Jeffers | Jul 2, 2023 | Saving Money
Get the list of proven stay at home mom jobs to make extra money with a low barrier to entry here.
Being a stay at home mom with your kids is probably something you’ve always dreamed about doing.
It’s so hard to juggle everything that comes with working a full time job and everything that comes with being mom to those adorable (and sometimes frustrating) babies.
Unfortunately…sometimes, just as we finally figure out a way to afford to stay home with the kids, something totally unexpected knocks us for a loop.
Sometimes it’s a major house or car expense. Or a health crisis.
Or, like now, (and like for me…I became a sahm in 2007, just in time for the economic crash of 2008), the economy goes south in a hurry. And suddenly, things that were affordable a few months ago are now way out of your price range.
So now you’re in a mental crisis.
Should you go back to work?
Are there really legitimate jobs for stay at home moms so you can bring in some extra money?
Well, the answer is yes.
If you’re willing to put in some actual work.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Jun 12, 2023 | Ways We Saved This Week
Our second born graduated high school this spring, and we had a big bash at our house to celebrate.
And now that the party is over, I can finally breathe easily again!
Getting the house ready for the party took up the lion’s share of work and expense, but you can bet that I found plenty of ways to save money.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Jun 12, 2023 | Recipe
These delicious grill recipes for a crowd are cheap and easy. Your family will devour these grill out foods!
Having a family of eight means you’re cooking for a crowd every, single, day. So I figured I might as well track what we’re grilling this summer and share it with you.
Because who doesn’t need a nice, tidy list of supper ideas, especially on a hot day when your brain is pretty well fried?
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by Jamie Jeffers | Jun 10, 2023 | Recipe
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Have you been looking for a delicious, but easy recipe for grilled pickles wrapped in bacon?
Well, look no further.
If you think bacon and pickles are sure hits at your backyard BBQ, just wait until you see what happens when you combine them in one perfect recipe.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Jun 6, 2023 | Recipe
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Looking for an easy grilled pork chop marinade that’s both sweet and savory? This is the perfect recipe, and it’s done in no time!
Pork chops are one of those things that can be tricky to cook just right.
Sometimes they’re cut thick, sometimes thin.
They tend to dry out too easily.
It took me forever to find a sure fire way to serve them that everyone loves. But this marinade? This is the one.
It’s the best way to grill up juicy, delicious pork chops that everyone in my family of eight absolutely devours.
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by Jamie Jeffers | May 28, 2023 | Frugal Living
Learn how living a simple life with little money can change your life in the best possible way.
Admit it: watching the price of even the most basic foods at the grocery store rise every single week has made you consider becoming Amish.
Yeah, me, too.
Ok, so maybe that’s a little drastic. But there has to be a way to simplify things at least a little bit.
Because the cost of everything isn’t going down any time soon, the time to change some of your spendy habits is definitely now.
This doesn’t have to be painful! In fact, I’ve found that simplifying many parts of life has made me feel less anxious and more fulfilled (while saving our family budget).
Here are some things I definitely think you’ll want to try.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Apr 22, 2023 | Parenting & Household Tips, Saving Money
Get a list of things you should cover when you talk finance for teens, plus how to start the conversation and resources to try.
It would be nice if we could just sit down with our kids one time, have a chat about money, and call it good enough.
Unfortunately, just like the rest of parenting, you have to talk about finance for teens over and over again.
A week or two ago, I had a talk with a couple of my teens about budgeting. (We have four teenagers in case you’re wondering why I would say “a couple of teens”.)
It was amazing! Just kidding. I talked, and they made jokes about memes and video games the entire time.
But whenever I said something like, “Do you even know what I said?”, they could answer me.
I know from experience that when I try to talk with my teens about something serious, there just isn’t going to be a lot of back and forth conversation.
So these days, I look for opportunities to plant seeds of ideas in their brain.
And now I know that later they might ask questions (maaaybe), or they will at least start to put some of those ideas into practice on their own.
So there’s the how to have the conversation. But what should you talk about?
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 31, 2023 | Gardening
These cheap garden ideas will help your vegetable garden be the money saver it was meant to be in the first place.
You start out to create a little veggie garden just to save yourself some money on groceries.
But it doesn’t take long to discover that gardening can cost you a lot more money than just buying the dang vegetables at the store in the first place!
So when you’re just starting out, it’s super important to use cheap garden ideas as much as possible to keep your costs down.
Well, these ideas are easy, cheap, and totally do-able, even for the beginning gardener. So give them a try!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 19, 2023 | Saving Money
These cheap ways to update your home are easy, so start your dream home file now.
Remember the day you bought your home?
All the excitement of starting somewhere fresh and new made it seem like…well maybe not the perfect home, but close!
Over the years, though, that home started to feel boring.
It’s getting to the point that you just don’t want to be there anymore.
But with the cost of housing (not to mention the work and effort of moving), swapping house is just out of the question.
Well, that’s ok. Because once you put these cheap ideas in place, your home will feel new all over again.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 10, 2023 | Holidays
She will love any of these cheap gift ideas for Mom on a budget. (Ideas gathered by a Mom of 6!)
I’ll go ahead and speak for your Mom when I say it is so sweet of you to think of her with a great gift idea!
Honestly, she’d be thrilled to just be allowed to take an uninterrupted nap.
But if you want to hand her something she’ll actually love this time (even though you don’t have much money to spend), fear not!
I’ve compiled a list of the best gifts on a budget for Mom that she’s sure to love.
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