My weekly shopping trip picture – week of 2/8/15
I did my weekly shopping trip this week – my weekly budget is $125, and this week I went $2.00 over. I ended up taking that $2.00 out of our miscellaneous budget category and felt totally...
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View ArticleHow I feed my family of 6 on a budget of $125 a week
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