I’m not a fan of hot coffee. Don’t ask me why I can’t explain it to you. It’s just one of those things, like people who don’t like to eat fruit. Therefore I only drink iced coffee. If you are like me the one thing I get really tired of is making the perfect cup…
This was a straight up crazy week for me. I don’t know if you remember a post I wrote called Creating a Schedule That Makes You Happy. The concept of having a “time budget” was really put the test this week in my life. My 24 hours were so full that the things I usually get…
It all started with a bacon, egg & Gouda breakfast sandwich. I had just cleared rush hour traffic and was stopping to grab breakfast on my way to help with Preschool camp at my church. One minute I was sipping iced coffee and eating my breakfast. The next minute I was crunching down on a…
Last Saturday I walked confidently into my bathroom and prepped myself to step on the scale. That ritual includes using the restroom, removing my hair tie, brushing my hair and making sure that the weight I’m about to see is purely a reflection of my body mass. It was 1.5 weeks into my 21 Day…
As a kid I loved visiting Kennedy Space Center. Now that my son is old enough to go and enjoy it, I requested a media pass for my family and was approved. This post outlines our 2015 Adventure to Kennedy Space Center. All the thoughts and opinions expressed in this post are my own. I…
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FYI: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase, I receive a small commission to keep this blog up and running. For more information view my privacy policy. Greetings! This is the second week of Thrifty Little Mom Life where I give you a glance at my real…
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase I make a small commission that keeps this blog up and running. For more info view my privacy policy. I remember waking up ridiculously early on those Saturday mornings and sticking a POP TART in the toaster. As I…
Special thanks to Toni of Debt Free Divas for sharing her personal experience with buying into a Timeshare. You name the type of debt, we’ve probably had to dig out from under it. I don’t say this to beat myself up. Rather to be honest about the missteps and: Help others avoid similar pain. Remind…
Special thanks to Talaat and Tai from His and Her Money for writing this guest post and being willing to share one of their financial fails and what they learned from it! Raise your hand if you really enjoy failure. Here’s a better one, raise your hand if you really enjoy losing money. The truth…
The first time it happened to me I was in total shock. As soon as I lifted my safety harness and slipped out of the seat I could feel it. I was certain that right there, in front of all those people anxiously waiting for their turn that I was going to be sick. I…
Special thanks to Upromise for sponsoring this post! I still remember Graduation day like it was yesterday. I’m extremely sentimental and so I tried to seize as much of the day as possible. I was excited that being in alphabetical order would seat me beside one of my best friends who was also the…
One thing I really enjoy is when a blogger pulls back the curtain and shows you their real life. A blogger friend of mine wrote a post this week about how frustrated she was that so many of us feel like we have to present these amazingly perfect lives so people will think we have…
Hi, my name is Elle and I’ve had a financial fail with helping others. Sounds weird, doesn’t it? But when I was in college I would use my credits cards to treat friends and family or help them out by covering for an emergency or unexpected bill that hit them. It felt good to bail others out…
I had always said that I couldn’t & wouldn’t work with middle school kids. They were just too moody complicated. But then I got the S.O.S text from the church youth leader saying that they desperately needed a few good women to volunteer for a weekend middle school retreat. Unexpectedly what I found was that…
Special thanks to my good friend Kalyn Brooke from Creative Savings for being willing to share her financial fail with us! I blame HGTV. Okay, not really, but it did kind of start this whole thing. After watching every single episode of Income Property and Flip This House, I decided our first home needed to be…
Special Thanks to Aja McClahanan from Principles of Increase for sharing her business failures and what she learned in this guest post! I have a pretty phenomenal business that I enjoy running these days. I work with a team of awesome people and get to help businesses run more efficiently. This wasn’t always the case….
Summer for our frugal little family means lots of fun road trips and lazy afternoons spent at the YMCA pool. During our summer outings it’s inevitable that we all get hungry at some point and need a little snack. But we aren’t the road trip family who unloads everyone at the gas station to spend…
Way back in 2009, my husband and I were newlyweds. We were still trying to figure out this whole managing money together thing. It was not easy and by the end of 2009, we had learned a very valuable lesson in managing money, to the tune of $5,000. My husband was in his first year…
I’m a self-proclaimed money nerd who runs a personal finance blog dedicated to sharing my successes (and failures!) with others so we can learn from each other. You would think that I would be immune to major money fails. You would be wrong! We’ve been on this crazy money journey for over 5 years now…
I still remember the night, 2 years ago that I laid down in bed and the thought, “Start a blog” just popped into my head as I dozed off to sleep. I had been dealing with a constant internal struggle at the time about who I was going to be in 20 years when my…
I had been in the bathroom for about 5 minutes when the break down happened. All I needed was a stinkin’ tube of toothpaste! It HAD to be in the drawer. BUT I couldn’t find it because that drawer had been crammed full of beauty products like that container of fine line eraser I bought…
Do you ever struggle to come up with a good gift for your kid’s teachers that are useable, thoughtful and frugal? At the end of this school year I decided to try and think outside the Starbucks gift card and Sharpie filled cup for my son’s teacher appreciation gifts. I was on the hunt for…
If you are at all into Dave Ramsey’s debt free plan, you know all about rice and beans and beans and rice. When we were in our debt free hustle from 2010-2012 we ate our fair share of rice and beans to keep our grocery budget low. But when you eat these food for several…