Say Goodbye to Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Forward Budgeting and the Cash System
This post is part of a series. To start the series from the beginning, click here. To browse through the series, click here. Forward budgeting, also known as the ‘forward roll’ is also a three-step process. Each month, you project your expenses and savings. At the end of the month, any funds that weren’t used will be transferred into your savings account. This process repeats each month. Envelopes The envelope system can be used in a similar method to reverse budgeting. The only difference is that you don’t put a set amount of money into the Savings envelope at the ...
Ready to Eat Freezer Meals
*This post may contain affiliate links* I have been seeing so many posts about freezer meals recently. One thing that has surprised me the most about freezer meals is that they take a lot of work! All of the posts make it seem easy and time saving but I'm not buying it. You take hours one day to prep all of your meals and put them in the freezer. Then, when the time comes to prepare your meal, you still have to find the right cookware and thaw and cook it which could take just about as long as just ...
How to Create Blog Photos Using PowerPoint
My How to Make Your Own Blog Photos post shows the steps that I use to create my images. Today I'm going to go into a bit more depth and show you how I do some of the editing. So, if you haven't read the other post, go check it out and then come back to this one. One thing to note before diving into the editing. I like to take landscape photos when I'm creating a collage of images. I will show you why below. Setting Up PowerPoint The first thing I do when I'm getting ready to create a ...
How We Met – Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine's Day! Now it's time for a love story. 🙂 Nick and I met in 2008. I don't remember the exact day or even the season when we met because at that time I didn't know he was the one. Actually, I didn't know he was the one until years later. This is the only photo we have from around the time that we met up until we started dating. Picture quality on phone's has really improved over the past almost decade! In 2008 I was in my first and second years of college and was still hanging out ...
