Family Budget

Quite a while ago I wrote a post about a little trick that we use to stretch out our grocery budget. Since then, I have found a slightly different way of doing things that makes it much easier on us and much better for our budget. The previous method assumed a bi-weekly pay [...]

As promised, this will be the last of my posts on managing family food money. On top of that, I’ll keep it short and sweet. In my second post I mentioned a “trick” to making our grocery budget appear like it was cut in half. So, here it is.
I receive paychecks bi-weekly, [...]

I meant to continue this post on managing family food money a while ago, but we had a lot going on around the 4th of July, so I apologize for taking so long. Continuing where I left off, I was talking about our self-inflicted/self-taught budgeting “education.”
It seemed that we were very slow learners.  Although I don’t [...]

As I mentioned in my first post, budgeting our family food money has always been something of a struggle. When my wife and I were first married, we verbally decided on some amount of money per month for food (I don’t really remember now how much it was) that seemed reasonable and just did [...]