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5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week 10
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.
5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week 9
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!
5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week 8
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.)
5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week 7
I’ve been busy working to bring you my best tips on Ways to Find Money for Christmas Presents (and you’ll definitely want to check out that series for some unusual tips!), but I didn’t want to forget about the ever popular 5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week series, either.
So here are our 5 ways for this week.
5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week 6
It’s Friday! Ready to get your 5 Ways We’ve Saved Money This Week fix?
Confession time…we’ve had a rather expensive week. Our 10 year old son had a terrible migraine that required 2 hospital trips and an additional stint in the emergency department. That’s not going to be cheap. I also wound up spending money on food and drinks since I didn’t have time to plan ahead (we wanted to get there and relieve his migraine ASAP).