Money saving tips for moms
Lizzie Tyner | RSS | 3 Comments
When you’re a mom, you can’t ever seem to know exactly where the time goes. If you’re a stay at home mom, it gets hard to know how to spend your time and money in order to keep your home running without any issues. So here are a few tips I came across on the internet that will help me and any other moms out there.
1) You can share errands with other moms in your neighborhood. There are other things than children that you and other moms have in common; like that never ending list of things to do. The other moms in your neighborhood are probably just as overwhelmed as you are. The article suggests that if you were to get two of your friends together, one could go to the grocery store, another to the department store, and the third could watch the kids.
Not only does that save time for everyone, but your kids also get a play date once a week!
2) And I know I have talked about this before, but garage sale shopping is not only money saving but can be a bit fun also. You can get your kids out of the house and around the town to socialize with other children (and you get to do the same!).
Garage sales are also a great way to find things for your house that you would have paid a lot more for at any store. A friend of mine was garage sale shopping three weeks ago and found a gigantic hamster cage with the tubes and everything for $5. The same cage at the pet store was $40 without the tubes.
3) Coupons! I love coupons and I’m so happy that this article talked about clipping coupons not only through the Sunday newspaper, but also from the internet. The article suggests MommySavesBig.com for coupons. At the site you can find deals for items at grocery stores and clothing stores. The site has all kinds of coupons, promotional codes to do shopping online, mail in rebates, and (everybody’s favorite) free stuff.
4) Bargain with others and trade your old stuff. Kids grow fast, its one of those facts of life. That doesn’t mean that every time your kiddo hits a growth spurt that you have to go out and spend $250 on new clothes and shoes. You can trade or bargain with some of the women in your network. If their kids have already been there, then maybe you can get some of those clothes from them and you can see if anyone needs your child’s old clothing.
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Tags: stay at home, printable coupons, household items
Eenagelist | Sat, Sep 26 2009
1. Budget, look over your bills, plan to spend what you spent last month this month, AND SAVE ALL ELSE
2. Always tell yourself, this dollar spent here means a dollar less for a vacation.
Jennifer | Sun, Sep 27 2009
I like to make the things I would normally make for dinner, but in a huge batch and then freeze meal size portions of it. I find that on days where I don’t have time to cook where I would order out or cook up more expensive instant meals, I can just take the cheaper homemade item I made previously out of the freezer and heat it up.
There are somethings i have found don’t freeze well so if you think about doing this, look up some stuff on freezing food first.
Sammie | Mon, Sep 28 2009
Instead of getting your kids on your call phone plan…start them off on a prepaid plan. I just bought my 2 youngest kids a Net10 (www.celldefense.com) prepaid phone. I bought it was WalMart for super cheap. I buy them the cheapest card with the least minutes. It teaches them about responsibility and make me a little more at ease knowing that they could communicate with me if anything were to happen.