In this episode, I share my meal plan for the week and provide recipe ideas to help with your meal planning. Meal planning can save you money by allowing you to buy only the groceries you need and save you time by knowing what you’ll be cooking each night. Tune in to learn more about how meal planning can help you stay organized and save money and time in the kitchen. I’ll also share some of my favorite recipes that are easy to make and delicious!

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For many of us, summer means nicer weather and often a change in our schedules, especially if we have children. It is often a time when we want to go out and do things to get out of the house. Regardless of how much money you have budgeted for fun things to do this summer, you can find something that works for you and your family. While many things we might want to do can be very costly, there are plenty of things to do that cost very little. There are also plenty of ways to make the more costly activities cost a little bit less. Today I am going to share some tips on things to keep in mind to make sure you stick to your budget while also making sure to get out there and have some fun this summer.

In this episode, I share my meal plan for the week and provide recipe ideas to help with your meal planning. Meal planning can save you money by allowing you to buy only the groceries you need and save you time by knowing what you’ll be cooking each night. Tune in to learn more about how meal planning can help you stay organized and save money and time in the kitchen. I’ll also share some of my favorite recipes that are easy to make and delicious!

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Do you ever notice that when you go into your dresser drawers or closet to pick out what to wear you tend to gravitate to certain items more often than the others? What about those items that you keep bypassing? The things that you think look nice but they don't feel comfortable. Or things that are comfortable but make you feel like you don't have it together? How different would you feel when choosing what to wear if all of the options that you had to choose from were things that you loved? You would no longer have guilt about those close that no longer fit. Those clothes that you paid so much for but never wear because you really don’t like them won't make you feel bad anymore. The goal of minimizing your wardrobe is not to have a certain number of clothing items. The goal is to get to a point where the vast majority of the clothing that you have are those things that you constantly reach for.

In this episode, I share my meal plan for the week and provide recipe ideas to help with your meal planning. Meal planning can save you money by allowing you to buy only the groceries you need and save you time by knowing what you’ll be cooking each night. Tune in to learn more about how meal planning can help you stay organized and save money and time in the kitchen. I’ll also share some of my favorite recipes that are easy to make and delicious!

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I have done several episodes on sinking funds over the years. But, I still think it is important to bring it up at least once in a while. When I went back and checked my notes the last time I did an episode on sinking funds was last summer. So, I think we are due for another mention about how useful sinking funds can be to help you stick to your budget. If you are not familiar with the term sinking fund, it is basically an amount of money set aside for a specific future expense. The account is typically funded on a weekly or bi-weekly basis so that by the time that expense is expected to happen, the money is already set aside. Sinking funds are used for the types of costs you know will be coming, they just don't occur on a regular weekly or monthly schedule. So, when they do come up, you don't want to use other resources to cover them if you fall short. Sinking funds can be segregated within your main checking or savings accounts. Or they can be in separate bank accounts - it just depends on what works best for you and how detailed you want to get.

In this episode, I share my meal plan for the week and provide recipe ideas to help with your meal planning. Meal planning can save you money by allowing you to buy only the groceries you need and save you time by knowing what you’ll be cooking each night. Tune in to learn more about how meal planning can help you stay organized and save money and time in the kitchen. I’ll also share some of my favorite recipes that are easy to make and delicious!

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In this episode, I share my meal plan for the week and provide recipe ideas to help with your meal planning. Meal planning can save you money by allowing you to buy only the groceries you need and save you time by knowing what you’ll be cooking each night. Tune in to learn more about how meal planning can help you stay organized and save money and time in the kitchen. I’ll also share some of my favorite recipes that are easy to make and delicious!

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There are many different options on how to record your expenses. Many people love some of the budgeting apps that allow you to track your expenses against your budget on the go Some of them can even be automated, so if you struggle with taking the time to record your activity, that might be something to consider. I track my expense in a spreadsheet. However you decide to track your expenses, the most important piece is to just make sure you are doing it as regularly as possible if you find that you are struggling with overspending. That is the best way to avoid accumulating all of those purchases that you had forgotten about by the time you go to update your budget.

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