Plan to Eat

I toyed with the idea of titling this post "Stop Spending All of Your Money, Amanda." Between the two of us, I am the spender...but then again, Jake is also the spender (just not quite at the same level). Historically I grew up saving nearly every penny I received for birthdays and holidays. We married young and did mostly OK saving early into our marriage, but then BOOM. Baby. Baby gear. Cole didn't actually require much as an infant, but feeding the stroller habit required all of the monies. Over the years I have employed a few different budgeting techniques. First it was pretending we didn't need a budget, which lasted a few years. Then we moved on and signed up with Mint, a free budgeting tool that automatically imports all of your individual bank/credit card accounts and allows you ... [Read More]