Dear Home Ec 101,
I need to get our food budget under control, we spend a ton of money eating out. It’s starting to cause fights. I can’t cook, I can’t plan, and even if I could I wouldn’t know where to start.
Signed,
Hopeless in Hopeswell
Heather says:
Welcome to our third installment of our first series [...]

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Ivy says:
Today’s my brother’s birthday- I can’t believe my LITTLE brother is 30 years old now! But that’s what happen when you get all old and stuff. Anyway, due to school being about to start and a bunch of other little things, I’m pretty broke. What’s a sister to do for a gift for [...]

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Heather says:
Let me set the scene, Monday morning you rise with the nagging feeling that you have forgotten something or that perhaps there is something you should be doing. Rather than pay attention to the feeling you begin attacking the weekly laundry.
Mid-morning your sister calls and asks what time you and the kids will be [...]

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Dear Home Ec 101,
I need to get our food budget under control, we spend a ton of money eating out.  It’s starting to cause fights.  I can’t cook, I can’t plan, and even if I could I wouldn’t know where to start.
Signed,
Hopeless in Hopeswell
Heather says:
Welcome to part two of this series on meal planning.  Part [...]

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Ivy says:
Recently, I saw a discussion about bottled water in a frugality community. Some people were saying it is not frugal at all to buy bottled water, since tap water is (essentially) free. Others explained that the water where they lived was just bad and they needed bottled water.
I’m in the “my water is just [...]

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