Supercooling your home in the summer can save big money on your electric bill. Do you dread summer electrical bills? In Arizona, we can get away with bare-bones electrical bills in the winter since it is so nice here. But in the summer, it is an absolute nightmare trying to [...]
Do you feel like there’s not enough money to get you to the end of the month? Are you drowning in debt and don’t know how to fix it? Are you wondering if you should participate in your employer-sponsored retirement plan? These and other money-related questions can be answered by [...]
Meal prepping is huge right now and for a few reasons. First, the cost savings of meal prepping compared to what you spend on random shopping trips and eating out is tremendous. Secondly, the time efficiency of meal prepping is huge. Everybody wants more time in their day. You may remember [...]
Announcing the 2018 Saver and The Spender Meal Prep Challenge!!! New rules... see below! This is a little different than described on the podcast. Kelsa and I decided that it should be a meal prep challenge only and not limit food choices to a real food/ paleo/ whole 30 type [...]
Our beautiful and smart daughter Carmen will be 2 years old in December. So that tells you it took us almost two years to put together our all-around fabulous budgeting tool to help you plan for your new arrival. We took everything we learned from our own experience, everything I've [...]
Guest Post by style consultant Tabitha Dumas. Check out her website at www.TabithaDumas.com If you’re new to Goodwill shopping, or thrifting or secondhand shopping in general, this post about what to buy at Goodwill is for you. Goodwill shopping, like a lot of shopping, is hit or miss. Sometimes you’ll [...]
I was recently featured in an article on ValuePenguin and on NASDAQ's website about how to manage your credit card debt! Here is the article: The average credit card debt for an American household is $5,700,and it rises to more than $16,000 for households that do not pay off their balances each [...]
When we budget for holidays we usually just think of buying gifts for birthdays, Christmas or Hanukkah, Mothers' and Fathers' Day and maybe Valentine's Day. But in reality, there are so many other holidays that require gift-giving that we often forget to include in our budget. You probably don't get through [...]
At Fiscal Fitness PHX our mission is to "take the stress out of money." One big stressor for everyone is grocery shopping. Not only is it hard to stay within budget, let alone create a budget for groceries, it's hard to make sure you are getting the lowestprices. Also, time [...]
In a 2013 survey by Timex, running was the most popular form of exercise. In 2015 there were nearly 17,000,000 running event finishers in a runningusa.org poll. Running is a very popular form of exercise in America and more and more people are getting involved. I'm sure that for as [...]