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Reader Case Study: Student Loans, Weddings, and Family. Oh My!

September 13, 2015 By Al 4 Comments

Student Loans Weddings Family

Every so often, we get asked questions that could be instructive to many of our readers. We recently got asked some such questions by a reader named Gina, and so I thought I’d share my response in the form of this post.  Let’s take a look at her situation: I’d like your advice on the following: […]

Filed Under: Blogging, General Tagged With: case study, debt, loans, relationships, saving money, student loans, wedding

A Special Anniversary Weekend – Crumb Saver Style

October 15, 2014 By Deb 8 Comments

Anniversary Weekend

Mr. Crumb Saver and I recently celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. Wow, what a milestone that an analytical numbers nerd and a penny-pinching frugal girl survived 4 years of marriage! Not that we couldn’t get along, mind you. Analytical nerdiness and penny pinchiness go together like hand in glove. The miracle is that this couple […]

Filed Under: For Fun, Our Finances Tagged With: budget, eating out, food, freebies, frugality, house, loans, mortgage, needs, relationships, restaurants, saving money, spending, wants, wedding

A Random Crumb #2: Random Facts

September 25, 2014 By Al 14 Comments

Random Crumb - Facts

Earlier this week we were nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award by May from Messy Money and Laurie from The Frugal Farmer. (Thanks, ladies!) This award is similar to the Liebster Award, where we share some random facts about ourselves and then nominate any other bloggers to pay it forward. For those of our readers […]

Filed Under: For Fun Tagged With: award, gardening, relationships, wedding, worms

How I Got Married in a Cheap Wedding Dress

July 17, 2014 By Deb 14 Comments

Cheap Wedding Dress

Every bride wants to look beautiful on their wedding day. Radiant, vibrant, breath-stoppingly gorgeous. But perhaps the biggest dilemma that plagues many brides, sometimes up to the week before the wedding (horrors!), is finding the right dress. How in the whole wide world, among the thousands upon thousands of dresses hanging in bridal shops and listed […]

Filed Under: For Fun, Our Finances, Principles, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: saving money, wedding

6 Unconventional Ways to Save Money on Your Wedding

July 15, 2014 By Deb 10 Comments

Save On Wedding

In our previous post, Planning a Wedding for Less Than $3,000, we gave you a broad overview of how much weddings are costing today (average of $30,000!) and how we managed to spend less than 10% of that ($2,515, to be exact). Of course, there are as many ways to save money on weddings as […]

Filed Under: Our Finances, Principles, Reviews, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: saving money, wedding

Planning a Wedding for Less Than $3,000

July 13, 2014 By Deb 11 Comments

Planning Wedding

Every little girl dreams of her wedding day. From the day they were born, most little girls are already practicing walking down the aisle and are planning every facet and detail with very vivid imagination: ~ Will it be peonies or roses? ~ If I pick Jane to be my bridesmaid, uh-oh…what about Jill? ~ […]

Filed Under: Our Finances, Principles Tagged With: budget, wedding

Revealing Our Monthly Budget

June 15, 2014 By Al 10 Comments

Monthly Budget

Previously, we had shared with you the “big picture” of our finances for the years 2011-2013.  I’m the type that has to see the full picture in order to know how the details fit in. So today, we are pulling back the curtain further to show our finances on the monthly level. Our purpose in […]

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