Simply Reaching Out

Today is January 31, 2014. Tomorrow we are starting a month of no-spending. A spending freeze. The whole family is on board. The only thing we will spend money on is gas and $25 per week for groceries, primarily produce and dairy items. I did stock up the past few weeks on meat that I found on sale or discount. For about 7 months we have been couponing, sale shopping and stock piling our groceries and we have cut our spending in half! Out stock pile is in pretty good shape so this month we will be using as much of it as possible. Our income was lowered in July 2013 due to me becoming unemployed. Luckily, I have a wonderful, hard working husband who has a good job so we are not in dire straights but our budget is super-duper slim. Also over the past few years, especially over the past few months, we have been cutting our bills and our spending, little by little. Some of the things we have done to cut costs have been getting rid of our home phone and cable.If you haven't done this y