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I took a little break from this series last Friday since we were busy enjoying our Thanksgiving break. But let’s get back to it this week! I love this series, because it stretches me a bit and it reminds me that we are making baby steps towards our goals of paying off debt.
So here are the 5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week! (And if you missed any previous weeks, you can catch them here.)
TGI 5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week Friday!
I’m so happy you feel the same way.
This is a great time of year to find bargains on everything from food to toys to shoes. It’s hard to say no to all of those deals! We are trying to remember to be very intentional about our spending, especially on Christmas gifts.
If you’re looking for ways to gather some extra money for Christmas yourself, be sure to check out 7 Days of Finding Money for Christmas Presents.
I had to reread it myself this past week. 😉
Wow! Ten whole weeks of money saving tips. That’s 50 ways we’ve saved money since I started this series. That’s pretty exciting! If you want to see all 50 tips, check them out here.
All of that said…it’s not been the most frugal week around here. A last minute zoo trip cost us some extras since I didn’t have a packed lunch prepared. (That’s ok, my kids had a blast with their buddies. Worth it.) We also ordered pizza and generally had a too busy week. It happens.
We still managed to find our 5 ways to save money, so here they are.
Happy Halloween everyone! Do you have any special family traditions you like to do to celebrate this holiday? We have a few family traditions that we enjoy.
We always carve a family pumpkin and let each child choose a feature to design: eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. (Guess we’ll need to figure out another feature for the 2 year old this year! A mustache, maybe?)
This year we bought a couple of extra pumpkins so we could carve fun stencil designs into them. It’s hard to believe that my older boys are now at the age where they can be trusted (mostly) to use a knife to carve a pumpkin themselves.
Buying extra pumpkins isn’t frugal, but we choose to splurge on family fun from time to time. That’s the good stuff of life!
It was time to gear up to write my weekly 5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week post, and I was trying to shuffle kids off to their other parent so I could get some work done. Instead, the hubs told me he would just write my post for me. hahaha
Then he actually wrote the post and sent it to me. Ok, hon, that’s pretty funny.
Then I read it. And I thought “Hmm…this post is already done. It’s pretty good. And it actually might be interesting to read from a man’s perspective around here for once.”
So here is Hubby’s guest post. (He’s totally still reading to the kids, though.)
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