Clawing our way to financial health asked me to post this announcement about the Meal Planning Month Challenge:

Join us in November in our quest to cook at home more, eat out less, create healthy meals and best of all… save some money! A group of us have decided to take on this challenge and are declaring November as Meal Planning Month. Once a week we will each post our meal plans, and our grocery budget for the week. At the end of the week we will track our progress and $$ spent. Also, I suggest you post about how much you hope to save this month and keep track to let us know how you are doing. I hope we all get inspiration for new healthy meal ideas too, since I am always looking for new alternatives to my regular meal planning.

As incentive, Nancy Zimmerman is giving away a $25 gift certificate to one participant who sticks to their plan all of November and posts about it at least once a week.

Our closing date was midnight tonight, but I am extending the deadline until the end of the week, since this post is going up today. Deadline is Saturday (Nov. 3) at midnight to join. If you want to join in please email me at westcoastwoolies@yahoo.ca.

Now that the network & aggregator are up and running, it’s time to request some guest posts. I’ll continue posting a featured post from member blogs about once a week, but it would be nice if there were some guests posts to post on a regular basis as well. If you have anything you’d like to submit, please send an email. Posts should be geared specifically toward women.

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In a few weeks, my daughter will turn one. She is the only granddaughter for both my parents and my inlaws (as my son is the only grandson) and consequently very blessed with love but also with… stuff. There will be no lack of gifts and clothes and things showered upon her for her birthday from both sets of very doting grandparents who by virtue of living a considerable distance away from us, only see her once or twice a year.

The grandparents have been demanding lists of presents we would like for her.

Continue reading Stuff and My Daughter’s First Birthday at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…

Combining households often means figuring out the best way to merge your money. If you decided to go that route, how did you do it, and how has it worked for you? What challenges have there been in keeping your financial identity while doing so?