Earn, Save & Live Smart
It’s 10PM on Christmas Eve and halfway through gift wrapping, you run out of wrapping paper. Sound the alarm bells! What do you do? People get pretty creative when they’re racing against the clock, and not everyone has a partner or friend on speed dial for emergency retail store runs. Luckily, there are lots of … Read more
The holidays are a time of giving, being with family, and having fun. A favorite holiday tradition in my family is to buy cheap items from the clearance aisles or dollar stores. We would then wrap them up and pass them around while my grandfather reads ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. As a child, I … Read more
The holidays are coming, and with them, the hottest sale of the year, Black Friday, which falls on the Friday after Thanksgiving. As online shopping has become a more feasible option, e-retailers have joined in with their own savings extravaganza, known as Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving. So many choices, so many discounts: … Read more
For those who are on a tight budget or trying to save every extra dollar they can, a gift-giving occasion can almost be painful. Sure, you want to give your loved one a fantastic gift that they will enjoy, but you also don’t want to spend a fortune. Today’s tutorial can help! Have you been … Read more
Remember the joy of building a fort in your living room? Maybe you used a card table and sheets, or maybe you created a fort with a giant box and markers. Those forts could be castles high in the mountains or tents in the great outdoors. Your fort was always as big as your imagination, … Read more
Is this one of those years that you have lots of graduation gifts to buy? Your niece, your neighbor, your son, his friends…the list is growing! Are graduation announcements arriving in your mailbox daily? Is your wallet screaming for mercy? No worries…The Budget Diet girl has plenty of ideas for cheap and cheerful graduation … Read more
You know that you should “never show up empty handed” to a party. At the same time, buying a hostess gift every time you are invited somewhere can get really expensive – so expensive that some people honestly consider staying home because they can’t afford the things they’ve been taught are appropriate to give. Don’t … Read more
The cooler weather has arrived, and I’ve been busy baking cookies for college care packages. It’s my “go-to” high school graduation gift…I give an i.o.u. in June and send the care packages each fall. If you need a cheap and cheerful gift for a college student…this is it, you’ll be the mom of the year! … Read more
We all have our systems for organizing and saving recipes, and I’ve always been an index card in the recipe box kind of girl until the internet became my primary source of new recipes. Over the past year, I’ve amassed quite a collection of recipes that were printed on full sheets of paper. For a … Read more
With Father’s Day being right around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to treat your Dad on Father’s Day. If money is tight but you’re still hoping to add a more personal touch to your Father’s Day gift, you could always make your Dad a homemade gift or research some … Read more