Last week I posted Stretch Your Grocery Budget #1 and, as promised, here are more Shopping Tips with Strech Your Grocery Budget #2. Enjoy!

Here is a screenshot of my laundry room where I also have some shelves with groceries and related items.
On our journey to save money, we take advantage of all the discounts we get to bring home extra products we need. When we get a 50% discount for instance, instead of buying 3 packs of cereals we buy 6 or more and store them on these shelves for future use. On another cabinet I have one item of each of those in the photo for daily use.
Today I went to …

I am always searching for shopping tips that can help me to save money and reduce my grocery bill. This week I bring here a youtube video posted by CentsibleSawyer. It was posted one year ago but it has great tips than can help us to save some money. This is the first video, next week I’ll post the second one.

Today I went to the supermarket to buy a few things I needed and while I was waiting to be attended by the cashier I took a look around to the items they have to sell near the cashier. I realized that most products were made of paper or cardboard: Gift paper bags, baby shower invitations, happy birthday cards, etc.
I know it is easier to buy a already made birthday card but I can’t stop thinking that they are so easy to make at home that we could save a …

Barter System
Everybody is always so busy that some of the daily chores are not accomplished. Why not contact your neighbors, friends and family and set up a bartering system?
Imagine you need your lawn mowed but you are allergic to the recently cut grass or you simply don’t like to do it. Talk to a friend and say you will babysit his/her children in exchange for a lawn mow. Or you can offer yourself to take a family children to school in exchange for a car wash. You will save money …

This is a guest post by Lucille Groutadge.
You may not be surprised to learn that America is the world’s biggest consumer of electricity. What may surprise you however is that they use 21% of the world’s total energy, despite only accounting for fewer than 5% of the world’s population. This is in stark contrast to Ethiopia, whose residents have one of the lowest levels of energy consumption in the world – just 36.3kWh per person in comparison to North America’s 13,993.8kWh.
There are many issues relating to why one county’s energy …

I’ve been a little away from blogging because my kids are at home due to Easter school holidays and let’s say that, they keep be busy.
This week I received the taxes refund that immediately disappeared in the bank account. Payday loan ate part of the money as well as the credit card, I had to pay for my husband’s car not so cheap insurance, cable tv, so the money is almost vanished.
We also had what we call a once in a while bill. A new big shopping center opened in …