Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Money Saving Mom's Budget

Listen up, folks!  There is an exciting new book coming from Crystal Paine - also known as "the money saving mom"!


Here's a description of the book from the Amazon page:

Mommy-money blogger Crystal Paine distills her best financial advice and secrets from her blog MONEY SAVING MOM®, to help families get their finances in order. Based on The Money Saving Mom’s Seven Rules for Financial Success and written in a simple, straight-forward style, this book offers an easy plan for a complete financial makeover.
In the first few chapters, you'll learn how to set big financial goals and actually follow through with them, how to organize your home and life so you can have more time to focus on getting your finances in order, and how to implement a realistic cash budget system that can transform your financial situation.

After laying the foundation for financial success in the first few chapters, Paine then teaches you step-by-step how to cut your grocery and household expenditures by 30% to 50%. You'll learn both basic and advanced couponing techniques, 25 practical ways to save money on groceries without clipping coupons, how to buy prescription glasses for under $20, how to dress your children for free, and much more.

If you think living a frugal, simple and debt-free life means you can't ever enjoy dining out, entertainment or vacations, guess again! From money-saving vacation ideas to secrets to dining out on a budget, this book shows you how to enjoy strategic splurging -- and how to do it at half the price.

Sprinkled throughout the book are testimonies from people whose lives have been transformed through the principles Paine shares. You'll be inspired, challenged and motivated to spend less, save more and make the most of what you have.

Click here to order a copy of The Money Saving Mom's Budget!
 

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Hello, everybody!  I just wanted to let you know that I have not fallen off the face of the earth.  Not yet.  :-)  Basically, I haven't been home for an entire week at a time since back in August.  Here's a brief recap of my life since the beginning of September:

- Family vacation
- Home for a few days
- Out of town for two days (shopping for costumes and auditioning for "Office Seekers")
- Home for a few days
- Writers' Block (total of five weeks)
- Home for a few days
- Gone overnight to be an extra in "Office Seekers" (Steven Spielberg's movie on Lincoln)
- Home for a few days
- Six-day road trip with Advent friends (to KY and ultimately IN for the wedding of two of our friends)

And...today is my first full day home after all of that!  Supposedly, I'm home to stay for a while now (at least until January, and then I might be gone until May working on a movie).  Now I have a lot of catching up to do - at home, with my online correspondences, and here on the blog!  So you might have to wait a while longer to see pictures and hear about my adventures unless I can squeeze in some quick posts here and there.

I'll leave you with a picture that Stephen took today.  The puppies are glad to have me home!  :-)