With prices rising due to a trade war and corporate price gouging, it’s time everyone learn the skill that is grocery shopping. I spend around $400 a month on groceries for two people. It’s not a completely bare bones budget, but it’s significantly less than the average American spends. The average American two person household
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Imagine your perfect day in retirement. Maybe you’re sipping on a margarita on a beach, or maybe you’re playing with your grandkids in your backyard. What gets you to that day? Saving and investing for retirement right now. If you open Roth IRA as early as you can, it’ll be a powerful retirement account that
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The most common new year’s resolutions are to save money and lose weight. I can’t help with the second, but I can help you have a low spend year and save money in 2025! What is a Low Spend Year? It’s pretty much all there in the title: a year focused on decreasing your discretionary
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Eating in season is a way to practice sustainability that often gets ignored. When you can walk into the grocery store in Iowa and buy bananas 365 days a year, we forget that those bananas come from thousands of miles away and require land, water, and fuel to reach us. If you want to live
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Between October and December in the US, there are three major holidays, and they all revolve around food or gift-giving. Thanksgiving especially centers on a big meal with an expensive main dish and many sides (and plenty for leftovers, of course!) That means spending money! Let’s talk about hosting Thanksgiving on a budget this year.
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