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Christine Steendahl “The Menu Mom”, is doing something special this summer. She is hosting an orphan from Ukraine for 5 weeks. You can read all about it here

She is doing this with a leap of faith, the problem is the financial cost is high.

To help her out, several friends have gathered together to run a Fire Sale.

Essentially they all donated products, combined them together and you can purchase them for one extremely low amazing price! The proceeds of the sale will help bring Sergiy to the U.S.

What’s included in the package? Everything from starting your own business, to organizing your home, to stretching your grocery budget.

Here’s What You Will Find…

From Christine : “The Menu Mom”

- Kid Approved Meals
- Entertaining Made Easy
- Summer Fun Recipes
- Bread Machine Magic
- Christine’s Favorite Forms & Checklists

From “Tech Based Training”

- Build Your Own Website with WordPress (a 2-day Web Class)

From Patti at “Remarkable Wrinklies”

- Memory Lane Meals – A Collection of Recipes Celebrating Cozy Meals From Days
Gone By

From “Just Add Sweat”

- How To Start a Recipe Blog for Profit and Fun

From “The Hillbilly Housewife”

- Crockpot Cooking and Recipe Collection
- Summer Cooking
- Ice Cream and Other Frozen Treats

From Tracy at “Moms In A Blog”

- 30 Days To An Organized Home

From Angela at “Marketers Mojo”

- Gimp Graphics Mojo (a course on using Gimp to edit photos)

From Kelly at “Solo Smarts”

- Business Group Coaching

From Tawra and Jill at “Living On A Dime”

- Quick & Easy Menus on a Dime

Wow…. that’s a lot of goodies for $15! (It’s a $447.62 Value to be exact.) It’s worth a look even if you own two or three of these products already. Take a look at the page to learn more about each product.

Fire Sale
But what I like best is that it is for a good cause. No matter how you can help, either by buying the product bundle, making a small donation, or just helping us spread the word about Sergiy’s story and this sale, I appreciate anything you can do.

P.S. This special “fire” sale will run through Tuesday May 22nd. Take a look and see if there’s something here you can use and help Christine and Sergiy at the same time.

Fire Sale

As the school year winds down you may have taken some thought to pumping up some of those skills your little one might be struggling with. Mainly Reading and Spelling.

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Our friends Tawra and Jill over at Living on a Dime have offered an amazing sale to our
readers of up to 50% off of their Dining On a Dime Cookbook and their other print books
along with a bunch of extra freebies!

If you want to skip on to read about the great deal they have for you, visit Living on a Dime

It’s no secret. Many of us spend a bundle of money feeding our families. Yes it’s true that eating out and buying convenience foods is expensive.  When you’re busy, it’s hard to find a better alternative.

Now you can cut your grocery budget, save money and get out of debt using the easy tips and techniques that thousands of other readers have already discovered in the Dining On A Dime cookbook!

If you’re not familiar with Dining On A Dime, it is a wonderful 480 page encyclopedia of inexpensive and easy to make scratch cooking recipes designed to help you dramatically reduce your grocery bill while feeding your family delicious homemade meals. (I got mine during last year’s sale)

During this sale, you can get all of Living On A Dime’s print books for up to 50% off and you’ll get some great bonus items, too!

Whether you need to cut your grocery budget, save money around the house or just make delicious home cooked meals, these Living On A Dime print books can help you get organized and make your life easier!

Go here right now and see the terrific deals for yourself!
Living on a Dime

P.S. Tawra said she’s also got a great early bird special for  everyone who takes advantage of this special deal by Wednesday, so don’t delay! Go check out this wonderful offer NOW!

Find it at: Living on a Dime

About the book:

About Crystal Paine:

My Review:

I’ve been reading Crystal’s blog off and on since it was called Biblical Womanhood. Before the trio of kids, back when her hubby was in college. When she REALLY had to stretch a dollar.  I read it more then for the tidbits on her regular every day life. We didn’t have a CVS in our area and I found her simple way of living nice to read about. Today I read Money Saving Mom sporadically more for the deals and stuff. The giveaways and coupons.

When I heard Crystal had written a book I decided I wanted to read (or listen) to it. I like gleaning information about saving money so I was looking forward to it. We work hard for our money so why not get the most out of it.  Not looking to be millionaires just the best stewards we can be of our resources. I know a lot of people say that if you read Crystal’s blog you’ve already read the book so I took that into consideration.

So I said I would review The Money Saving Mom’s Budget.

Chapter One: I started off listening to The Money Saving Mom’s Budget audio with my husband who bowed out after chapter one. He’s was put off by the first chapter on Goals. He said it sounded exactly like what you hear from popular motivational speakers. It was the same formula. For achieving this or that.  You hear a lot of this kind of talk when they make you go to seminars and such in the workplace and he was done. I admit it was not sounding like the usual Crystal of years past. It was all about laying down our goals so we could realize our “financial dreams”. Lots of encouragement for Financial Success. If I thought the rest of the audio book would have been like this I would have put it down. It did sound like a lot of motivational speak. Goals are important but it felt more like she was trying to motivate and entrepreneur rather than a Mother struggling to make ends meet. I hope this makes sense.

Chapter two: I kept going on to chapter two. This chapter was on clutter. Yes clutter. It’s like this. Time is money. If you spend your time looking for things around your house because you’ve misplaced them and are disorganized. And then say you have to go buy that thing again because you just could not find it even though you KNOW you have one. Well you’re wasting your money. So she talks about getting organized at home so you are not wasting your money. This is true and very important.

Chapter three: Chapter three was good. It was the basics for putting down a budget. I liked this chapter. A budget is so important if you want to know where your money is going and what you’ve truly been doing with it. It was nice, simple, and to the point.  This is probably the single most important chapter for those really struggling with making ends meet.

Chapter four: In this chapter Crystal challenges you to go plastic free. To stop using your credit AND debit cards for…I’ve forgotten. It’s like 2 months or something. I can see the wisdom in this (after you budget) but of course this is not going to work for everybody so you’ll have to decide what you can do here. Having had credit cards I can say I never want one again but we do use debit a lot. A way to get around overspending on our debit cards is we have a separate account for online shopping and grocery shopping. That money is put into that account and that is what we use. This is the cash chapter.

Chapter five: Now we move on to coupons. Crystal is a big believer in coupons and if you’ve ever visited her site you how much she uses them and they are in fact the main feature of her site. This is the info I was after.  Here she tells you why you should use them and different methods to go about organizing them. I think most of this I already knew. But I was wondering if I was missing something since food wise I don’t save that much with coupons. Face it. If you eat healthy, make all your own foods, eat as much organic as you can. You’ll pay big. Or at least bigger than if you don’t do all of this. So what I learned from this chapter is that where we can save is on the non-food items so I have to focus more on those and stop using Claus Porto soap for my every day bath. Sigh!

Chapter 6: How to save even more on your groceries with coupons and places other than grocery stores that you might shop to save money. This is the chapter where you have to decide how much time and energy you can put into cutting your grocery bill. She points you to her site (which is a great resource and time saver) to find coupon match ups. She also accounts her CVS beginnings and how she saves on her household products.

Chapter 7: 25 ways to save without using coupons. Other ways to save without having to clip coupons. We do most of this already.

Chapter 8: Going out without going broke.  This chapter will help you to realize how to have fun without spending a lot. I think most families are pretty good at this. Every family finds fun in different things so finding your fun and doing it at low cost is important.

Chapter 9: So the last chapter is probably the best. Because here she is speaking of how much she relied on God in the earlier years of her marriage. Choose Contentment is the title of this chapter. She also talks about tithing which is ultra important. Tithe first.

Finally: There are printable checklists and forms to get you organized.

All in all I think this was a great book for a person who is just starting out to manage their finances. Someone who is committed to finally bringing that checkbook in order and caring for their family within their means. I did end up recommending this book to someone who is struggling with her finances.

If you’ve already been working at being frugal and managing your money for a little while then you are probably already doing most of what Crystal has in this book. If you are a blog reader then again you are probably already practicing a lot of these tips. As I went through each chapter I noted that we are already practicing much of what is in this audio book. Our nutritional needs are where we splurge and going out

And then if you’re really struggling with your finances you can dig around and buy much of this on Moneysavingmom.com

Buy the audio book here

Read more reviews of Crystal’s book The Money Saving Mom’s Budget

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Litfuse Publicity Group as part of their Blogger Review program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

BUT!

More sales and giveaways at Living on a Dime.

This week. Dig out of Debt ebook Giveaway at Living on a Dime. This giveaway is March 19-20th.

Also get %50 off of the Dig out of Debt or Menus on a Dime ebook set. This week only.

The sales and giveaways continue.

Just like last week in honor of her 15 year anniversary of Living on a Dime books and ebooks Tawra is STILL holding giveaways and putting her books on a half price sale. So get yours while you can or enter the giveaway.

Today. Dining on a Dime Giveaway

and!

This week get both Dining on a Dime  and Keeping it Cleanfor 50% off! Good until March 11th!

The Deals Continue

Need to cut that grocery bill? Learn how to save money on your everyday groceries for free!

In honor of her 15 year anniversay of Living on a Dime books and ebooks Tawra is holding giveaways and putting her books on a half price sale.

Today. Enter the Groceries on a Dime Giveaway

and!

This week get both Groceries on a Dime  and Penny Pinchin Mama for 50% off!

It’s time for the $5 books from Reader’s Digest Store! And this is my pick…

How to Make Everything You Own Last Years Longer Than It’s Supposed To. This unique book, will give you the hints, secrets, and tricks to making more than 400 everyday items last longer.

Long Life for your Stuff now only $5 when you use the code DEALFIVE at checkout