These posts provide financial insights to help you save money.
About 4 months ago, our refrigerator stopped dispensing ice. It would still provide nice cold water, but whenever we switched to the ice setting, the fridge would just make a clicking noise. I immediately assumed that it would be an expensive fix (which turned out to be wrong). I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t really look into it much at the time and just started emptying the ice into a bucket that we kept in the freezer. I just…
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Mint is getting rolled into Karma this month (January 2024) so it’s making me get my butt into gear and not procrastinate on doing my yearly budget review. Mint has been an amazing budgeting tool for me these past 11 years and I’m so bummed that it won’t be available anymore. I’ve downloaded my data so I have a backup of the last 10 years of transactions. And I’ll be checking out Karma soon. But from what I’ve read, there…
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Whoa, option overload! I don’t know when this happened, but I recently discovered that Evergy (my area’s electric company) now has 7 different rate plans for customers to choose from. 7 Evergy rate plans is a lot to choose from. Evergy’s rate plan options: For more details, read about them all here: https://www.evergy.com/manage-account/rate-information-link/plan-options After I read up on all of these plan options, I found that there are really only 5 that my family could or might want to switch…
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I finally painted my kitchen in February – and I picked Heirloom Traditions Paint. Read on to learn Heirloom Traditions Paint pros and cons. Spoiler alert: I want to use it on everything now!
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I’m comparing the cell phone service providers T-Mobile, Mint Mobile, and Tello in this post.
And I explain why my family switched from one to the other, most recently settling on Tello for the best deal. We’ll be saving about $57 per month on our cell phone bill.
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The year 2022 was not a good year for our budget. I was so optimistic last year when I reviewed my family’s budget for 2021. I mean, who wouldn’t feel good after seeing a savings of around $2,000/month! But by the time we got a few months into 2022, I was back to full blown panic stressing about whether we could continue to make ends meet if I didn’t get a job. When I reveal our 2022 budget stretchers, you’ll…
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Update February 2023: Evergy has even more plan options for customers now. You can check them out here: https://www.evergy.com/manage-account/rate-information-link/plan-options However, you should still read this post so you can learn how to do the math to determine which plan option is best for you. Evergy’s Time of Use plan for electric bills is offered as a way for customers to save money. Evergy is the electric company where I live in Kansas City, Missouri. They offer customers a Standard Tier…
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Follow these simple tips to send affordable Christmas cards this year.
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Four years after quitting my job, I am the happiest I’ve ever been. This past year was the year that I finally started to release all that guilt from quitting and really feel at peace with my decision. In fact, I think I started feeling a real, all-encompassing joy in just the last couple of months. And tracking our budget results has made that possible. It has been freeing!
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This post is about how my family switched our electric bill to 100% wind power and actually saved money every month on our bill.
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