Most of the birthdays in Brad’s and my families are during the winter or summer months. This means that we are buying a lot of gifts from June to August and December to February. When you’re trying to “live like no one else,” it can be difficult feeling like you cannot give gifts or throw […]
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Toddler Tuesday: 20 Frugal Field Trips
August 28th, 2012 
Jessica This has been one HOT summer in California, but if your kids are like mine, they need to get out of the house and DO something! Early in the year I looked at the calendar and scheduled one Field Trip for each month, to guarantee that I would keep exploring our new hometown. As the […]
How Changing My Morning Changed My Whole Day
August 27th, 2012 Jessica A few months ago, Crystal did a series of posts on how getting up early could give you more time in your day. I took those posts to heart, and decided to give it a try… Read the rest of my guest post on Money Saving Mom today! photo source
How much money does a blogger make?
August 18th, 2012 Jessica One of the questions that I often get, is “How much money do you make blogging?” My usual answer is, “Very little.” Although I have enjoyed my last 16 months of blogging at The Abundant Wife, I would be lying if I said that I am in it for the money. Earlier this week I […]
Calvin College Annual Fund
August 11th, 2012 Jessica Good morning, and happy Saturday! Today The Abundant Wife is being featured on the Calvin College Annual Fund Facebook page. Check it out! While you’re there, don’t forget to “like” The Abundant Wife Facebook page for more photos and thoughts on living abundantly on less!
3 Ways We’ve Lowered Our Utility Bill
August 6th, 2012 Jessica In the past few months I’ve been working on lowering our utility bill. Here are some of the improvements we’ve made with the help of PG&E: A few months ago we qualified for the income-based CARE program which lowers our monthly bill. About a month ago we signed up for the Balanced Payment Plan which […]
Getting to the Wedding (Or How We Raised $1200 in 5 Months): Part 2
August 3rd, 2012 Jessica If you missed Part 1 of this story, you can find it here. On June 10, 2012 my entire family was present for the wedding of my sister Kristy and her new husband Zach, in Maryland. Kristy and Zach both live in Kansas but they, and most of Zach’s family, made the trip to our […]
8 Financial Books for Beginners
July 30th, 2012 Jessica During the winter of 2010, we lived in a tiny upstairs apartment in Minnesota. Brad had to go to Colorado for 3 weeks for training, and I was left alone with 6-month-old Naomi to run our home and pay our bills. Up until then, Brad had always managed our bills. He taught math, and I […]
Book Review: 6 Books in 6 Weeks
July 18th, 2012 Jessica I am not a person who likes to leave something incomplete, or commit to a project that I cannot finish. So you can understand that I have been bothered by the fact that I have been accumulating a small collection of half-read books on my shelves. Due to my success in reading over the last […]
Book Review: 3 Books in 3 Weeks
July 9th, 2012 Jessica Recently I wrote about my delight in achieving the six goals I had set for myself from June 15-July 15. One of those goals was to read a portion of a book each morning after reading my Bible and writing in my journal. I suffer from an addiction to books though, so once I began […]
