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Latest Budget Saving Ideas and Inspiration
Work at Home
If you’re like most solo-preneurs who offer a basic service in your business, you likely got started by just pounding the pavement to hustle up some clients. Then, you began to receive word-of-mouth referrals. And then, perhaps you put up a website and began using email and social media to promote your services.
Budget Recipes
I absolutely LOVE Olive Garden’s pasta fagioli soup, but I can’t afford to get over there as often as I would like. I came up with this recipe that is an easy one to do at home, and it’s a cheap meal idea as well. If you cut back on the pasta, it makes a great soup for dieters. This pasta fagioli soup recipe is also packed with fiber and healthy phytonutrients that help you fight disease. Serve it with crusty bread, a simple salad with oil and vinegar dressing, and an affordable red wine...
Budget Beauty
One of the places women spend the most is on beauty and style. Here are some easy and inexpensive shortcuts with some of the best budget beauty tips around!
Motivation and Inspiration
It’s said our purpose here on earth is to create, and I see achievement as simply stepping into our best creations. Whether it be making a million dollars, or making our most delicious batch of cupcakes ever, achievement inspires. It encourages us to keep bettering our best and also excites others to reach for the stars as well.
Relationships Advice
Emotional abuse is one of the most insidious forms of abuse a woman can suffer. Often, a woman doesn’t even realize that the unhappiness she feels has a name: abuse. According to mental health experts today, even if it is never physical…it is still abuse. Emotional abuse or psychological abuse has only recently been recognized as a legitimate form of abuse, and is hard to identify or prove. It affects everyone within a home no matter who is the target of abuse.
Diet, Health and Exercise
Many women want to drop a few pounds, but fitting exercise into our already busy routines can be impossible to do. And who wants to “diet”? Not a big fan myself. However, there are many small changes you can make each day that can quickly add up to a healthier lifestyle
Family and Parenting
Summer is a time when most parents want to provide inexpensive, yet relatively healthy snacks for kids. How about some summertime treats that don't break the bank, and that you can make yourself? Here are seven quick ideas for seasonal treats for kids!
Hobbies and Creativity
Life is all about balance... and when you are starting an internet business, or running an existing business, it's really easy to put so much effort in that you forget to have any fun! Relaxation is paramount to not suffering business burnout. If you have a hobby or a pastime, don't let it go by the wayside. Schedule time in for yourself at least once a week to do something that has absolutely nothing to do with your business... or anyone elses needs.
Home and Garden
Learn to decorate your small space...be it a tiny cottage or a larger home with small rooms within, all the resources you need are here! Home decorating ideas, small room decorating, home organizing ideas and DIY projects for your smaller home, on a budget!
Budget Featured Tip
DIY Fabric Softener Sheet
Pour one bottle of liquid fabric softener into a large container with lid.
Fill the empty softener container with water and add it to the container.
Repeat to give you a 2:1 mixture of water to fabric softener.
Drop sponges into the mixture.
Grab a sponge, wring out the excess liquid, and add it to the dryer with your wet clothes.
Seal your container between uses.
Thanks to Budget Saavy Diva
Stress Relief for Women
As a 21st Century Superwoman, with a zillion-and-one tasks to oversee and perform, it’s easy to lose yourself along the way. But subordinating your needs for the “greater good” is not as great as you may think. Not only is this kind of “Me last!” thinking outdated, it’s shortsighted. After all, you’re forgetting about the one person deserving of some much needed and well deserved TLC – you!
Saving Money
Have you all but given up trying to find things to do with your family that won't bring your credit card over the limit? Is it even possible to find interesting family oriented activities and have money left to pay the bills? Yes!