Category Archives: Finances

Improve Your Health for Less

Several years ago we started looking for ways to cut down on the amount of time, money and needless health issues we had and address things from a more natural approach wherever possible. We wanted to improve our health and be able to help the people in our lives God had blessed us with. I started searching and praying to find ways to get and keep our family healthier by looking at the way our bodies were designed to work and paying more attention to what kind of toxic products were going in and on our bodies.

Here are our favorite ways we’ve found to support or address health from a more wellness and holistic perspective.

Our Young Living Membership:
Young Living’s supplements and essential oils are another whole realm of health that encompass many, many uses. They are wonderful for so many things for adults, kids & pets from relaxation, pampering, beauty to health & wellness support, oil infused supplements which better digest and assimilate and even household items. If you would like to order one or two oils to try I am happy to get some for you with my membership but I also highly recommend you start with your own membership.  As you’ve probably figured out I am passionate about the holistic health arena and would love to share what I’ve learned with you and make sure you have the tools you need to use them to their fullest potential to improve you, your family and your pets health! Here’s my personal membership referral link https://beta.youngliving.com/vo/#/signup/start?sponsorid=1871264&enrollerid=1871264 Check them out! You won’t regret it!

Additional healthy items we use on a regular basis or as alternatives.

Coconut OIl
Celtic salt
Braggs Apple Cider vinegar w/ the mother
Carob
Honey/Real Maple Syrup
Gluten free flour

Healthcare sharing membership plans

Our Debt Free Story

For those of you who don’t know our story I wanted to share a post that was featured on Money Saving Mom.

We began our debt free journey in the summer of 2006, almost a year after we had been married. Hard to believe its been 8yrs since we made a decision that will forever change the way we live our lives and our family tree. Since this article was written we’ve had several major life changes including selling our home and moving into a 900sq ft bungalow rental house down the street, making the heart wrenching but needed decision to split off from our business partners and start our own company, purchasing equipment for our new business, buying a fixer up house with some land on the opposite side of town(more about that here) buying a van, taking several trips including another trip to Hawaii and having another baby.  All the while we’ve strived to live on cash and avoid credit cards and loans. I will say we did end up deciding to purchase our home with a loan but hope to pay it off early and got a good deal on it since it needed some major work done.

I’ll let this past post explain how we got started on our debt free journey and explain more about the other changes in some upcoming posts. http://moneysavingmom.com/2012/08/being-debt-free-is-so-worth-it.html

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Weird Ways to Save Money

I have to admit, some of the things we’ve done or do that has saved us money would definetly go down in the “weird” file for many americans. For example, we don’t have cable or a flat screen tv. We use cloth diapers, natural health remedies and cleaning methods. We’ve bought pallets of food and gluten free items at an auction(we’re talking 50lb bags of cereal, oats ect) and filled our living room with cardboard boxes full of seat covers to sell on ebay. We bought a popup trailer on craigslist so we didn’t have to rent one and then sold it when we got back in town for more money than we bought it for. The funniest thing we’ve probably done was pick up chunks of ice off the walmart parking lot to put it in our cooler(for items we didn’t have to worry about where the ice came from of course)but we still got a good laugh out of it…

I told you they’d be weird 😉

Have ever done something “weird” to save money?

Living Debt Free

For those of you who don’t know, my husband and I, by the grace of God, live debt free. It’s not always easy and this year has definetly thrown some challenges our way but I wouldn’t have it any other way. We started our debt free journey several years ago and have never regretted it. We now facilitate financial classes occasionally and LOVE being able to encourge others in the journey by “throwing out a rope” so to speak.

Now I know not everyone wants this or feels its what their family should do and some have decided to stop it temporarily for other things they need to take care of but for those working towards this goal the sacrifices you are making now will have a huge impact later. Success very rarely happens overnight. It’s making right or wrong decisions on a daily basis. Making bad choices over and over will cause death by 1000 cuts. Now I didn’t say it would necessarily be easy but things that are worth it usually arent. Set goals and allow yourself small rewards to help keep your momentum going. Push, push, push, be intentional and very soon, little by little you will be seeing the rewards and results of all your hard work. I know you can do it!!