Good friends and long-time readers of my blog know that I have a soft spot for charities that feed hungry children. I love volunteering with a local charity, Backpack Buddies, that sends home food-filled backpacks every Friday with children who might not otherwise eat over the weekend when school’s out. And you only have to take one glance at my [...]

Good news! WhatMommyDoes is co-hosting another cash giveaway! You have a chance to win $500 cash (via PayPal). The entry form appears below this post. **If you don’t mind, if you have a Twitter account, please follow WhatMommyDoes as your first entry in the raffle.** Expert Advice on Frugality Amy Dunn, frugal newspaper blogger, shared her advice on how to [...]

Today I am joining several other personal finance bloggers in a $100 cash giveaway. The giveaway entry form appears at the bottom of this post. You may enter multiple times for many different chances at winning! **If you don’t mind, please make the WhatMommyDoes Facebook entry option your first stopping point!**   77 Days of Saving Challenge Update For the WhatMommyDoes [...]

Clipping and using coupons (otherwise known as “couponing”) is a great way to save money on everyday expenses. It takes dedication, but is well worth the effort and time. I get tons of questions from friends and family about couponing (I can get a bit obsessed with it, and they know it!), so I’m starting a resource section on WhatMommyDoes, [...]

Do you have debt to pay off? Would you like to pay it off sooner rather than later? Well, here’s your opportunity to join hundreds (possibly thousands) others in paying off as much debt as possible in early 2013. The people behind ReadyforZero and GoodFinancialCents blogger, Jeff Rose, have teamed up to bring together The Debt Movement. Basically, the movement’s [...]

Today I am joining several other personal finance bloggers in a $100 cash giveaway! The giveaway entry form appears at the bottom of this post. You may enter multiple times for many different chances at winning! **If you don’t mind, please make the WhatMommyDoes Twitter entry option your first stopping point!** The giveaway’s theme is “Finances in the New Year.” To kick [...]

I might be crazy, but I recently came across J. Money’s Million Dollar Club on Budgets Are Sexy and decided to join the challenge! Basically, the Million Dollar Club is for anyone who wants to eventually become a millionaire and wants to do something about it. As part of the challenge, I came up with a specific action list to get [...]

Recently we went through a few household budget changes. We added a new baby to the mix, restarting all of the baby-related expenses from hospital bills to diapers and feeding. With the addition if our third child and a simultaneous big increase in my husbands travel schedule, I also found myself using a house cleaner and babysitters more than I’d [...]

Things have been quiet over here at WhatMommyDoes as I scramble to make last-minute Christmas gift and meal preparations. I had the best of intentions, but what would Christmas be without a little last-minute scrambling?!! I had a few moments to work on the blog, so I updated my ever-growing Ultimate List of Ways to Save Money with 24 more [...]

Today I am joining several other personal finance bloggers in a $100 cash giveaway! The giveaway entry form appears at the bottom of this post. You may enter multiple times for many different chances at winning! **If you don’t mind, please make the WhatMommyDoes entry option your first stopping point!** The giveaway’s theme is “When there isn’t enough money at [...]