Guest post by Christy of The Simple Homemaker
Christmas is just around the corner. While your kids are enjoying sweet dreams of stuffed stockings and presents under the tree, you’re suffering through nightmares about your budget shattering like Humpty Dumpty on an off day. It’s a legitimate fear. Through some strange twist of cosmic irony, people who are religiously responsible with their finances eleven months out of the year, often ditch reason and overspend when Christmas temptations roll around.
Not this year!
If you’ve been reading Stacy’s blog for any length of time, the following money-saving principles should be firmly ingrained in your head. Nevertheless, I’m going to ingrain them a little deeper this December to help ward off holiday-induced budgetary dementia and financial frazzle. [Read more…]