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Your Frugal Living Questions Answered

The other day on Instagram I requested all our Pearls to ask this frugal living mama anything. You ladies came up with some really fun questions!

Some of the questions are related to family finances and some are random questions related to our everyday life. At first I thought I might leave those ones out, but on second thought left them in.

On some level, every decision we make can boil back down to our core values of frugal living. From the kind of hair products I choose to use to the worries of my husbands job. They all play a role in the decisions we make with our finances.

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Spend Where You Value Most

I have a secret. Well, maybe not so much a secret but something I have not shared with our Pearls because I didn’t think you were ready to hear it yet. Something about my spending habits. 

But I think it’s time…

We have recently added a monthly expense of $160 to our budget for something that is 100% unnecessary. You know, I don’t feel about it one bit!

Before anyone starts tearing me apart in the comments (I know that those people aren’t true Pearls anyways!), hear me out. I’ll tell ya what the expense is in a sec.

First you need to understand that I believe you need to be spending your money where you value most. You work hard for your money! Your budget needs to be set up in a way that allows you to intentionally put your cash towards achieving your goals.

Without this, your money is going to disappear with nothing to show and your dreams left in the dust. Let’s make sure that this does not happen to you!

How do you know if you are spending your money where you’re supposed to? Do you know how to spend money wisely? You’re going to be surprised by the answer to this question! Continue Reading →

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Pearl Life Interview #2 – Norma’s Real Life Budget

Be prepared to be motivated to take control of your family finances! This is your opportunity to see a real life budget from one of our real life Pearls! Our Pearl Norma is putting it all out on the table in order to help inspire and motivate all our other Pearls to keep going!

When you are trying to end living the paycheck to paycheck life, there are going to be some hard decisions to be made. Norma shares how her and her family have worked through this exact thing!

 

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Be prepared to be motivated to take control of your family finances! This is your opportunity to see a real life budget from a real life mom and wife all about their real life family budget. This mom is putting it all her budgeting tips and real life experience on the table in order to help inspire and motivate all our other moms and wives to keep going! Continue Reading →

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May 2019 Family Budget Update

How do you manage a family budget when life gets busy? It feels like you don’t have the time to sit down and write out where you want your money go. Do you know what I’m talking about?

Man O man! It has taken some major dedication for hubby and I to set aside the time for our family budget these past few months.

We have been busy with birthday month (3 out of the five of us have birthdays within weeks of each other) and preparing for doors to open to my online course 30 Day Family Finance Rescue.

And I know you know all about the random crazy that comes with a growing family! The irregular appointments, meetings, and activities that pop up and seem to throw your entire weeks (and subsequently month’s) schedule totally out of whack!

I am here to tell you that if you can relate to anything I just said, then you are too busy to NOT budget. When life gets crazy, it is all the more important to do regular budget dates!

In this month’s family budget update I am going to not only walk you through the exact numbers that have gone in and out of our bank account, but I will also share with you what we have done to balance our family finances while living through several crazy busy weeks!

See a real life family budget with all the numbers shared in one place! See the mistakes and lessons learned from managing a family budget. Lots of tips useful for budgeting for beginners and anyone trying to stop living paycheck to paycheck. Continue Reading →

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Our Family Finance Rescue Story

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I know how it feels! The weight of all your financial worries makes you feel like you can barely tread water for one more second before your head goes under! You find it mind baffling that for some unknown TO YOU reason you can not stick to a budget even if your life depended on it.

I am talking about how we got our family finance in order and paid off $20k in debt and how there is hope for you too! I’m sharing my secrets and giving you a dose of serious motivation to get started with your family finances in 2019! Continue Reading →

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5 Ways to Be Sure Your Budget NEVER Fails!

Failing is good!

I’m so glad we failed when we did! No joke. The fact of life is that we are not going to be perfect at most things. Especially not the first time we give them a go.

Here’s the thing, I am a huge believer that there is something to be gained, a positive, an upside, however you want to word it, there is always something to learn from every experience. No matter what!

You get to choose. Do you want to continue down the Debbie Downer road, or are you going to learn from you mistake and make sure that you do better next time?

Take it up a notch, not only are you going to do better next time, but you are going to rock it out of the park!

 

Are You Failing?

You’re not going to be perfect with your finances. There is always going to be room to grow. SO GROW!

One of my favorite quotes from “Girl Stop Apologizing” by Rachel Hollis is, “Failure means that you’re living. Failure means you’re trying.”

Keep trying! Don’t you give up because it got a little uncomfortable!

The only way for you to truly fail is if you let the struggle paralyze you from moving forward. The only way you will fail is if you don’t keep going!

When budgeting for beginners it can quickly become overwhelming and you find yourself feeling defeated and a budgeting failure. YOU’RE NOT! Here are five budgeting tips that will help you know how to fix your budget and never fail ever again! Continue Reading →

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How to Start Paying Off Debt

Debt is such a burden! Borrowing money from one person to pay another is a horribly stressful way to live your life. Aren’t you sick of it yet? How to start paying off debt can feel like an overwhelming thought.

The constant weight of the worry “what if” that you carry around on a daily basis. Think of the full breath of fresh air you can inhale once you get that off your back!

But where do you begin. What is step one and where do you go from there? That is exactly what we are going to be chatting about today.

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Learning how to payoff debt is simple with these 5 Tips to Payoff Debt QUICK! It doesn’t matter if you are a low income or one income family, this is how to start paying off your debt fast.

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3 Hidden Reasons Why You Aren’t Good at Budgeting… YET

We’ve all been there, Pearl. You set a budget with all the best intentions, then BOOM, budget is blown in an instant. And it happens over and over again. How does someone get started, and actually stick to their budget? Your budget is failing!

It’s definitely not a cake walk, though I wish it were because that would be more enjoyable.

The part that a lot of people miss is that there is a mindset you have to have around money to become successful. You have to change how you think, feel and act around money, to start to see momentum build up behind you, pushing you towards your goals!

Creating a positive money mindset is vital when it comes to staying on budget! The problem is most likely you have some not so obvious hurdles that keep pushing you off track. Resulting in your budget failing over and over again.

Let’s uncover those hurdles so you can start crushing them!  

 

When budgeting for beginners it can quickly become overwhelming and you find yourself feeling defeated and a budgeting failure. YOU’RE NOT! Here are five budgeting tips that will help you know how to fix your budget and never fail ever again! Continue Reading →

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