Journey to Financial Peace

I have heard of doing this, but never really understood how it worked, nor have I actually tried it. I’m blogging about it, in hopes Amy will see how to put it into practice in our household.
Carrie at WiseBread writes about it here.
You might have noticed these deals in the grocery flyers: “Spend $20 on [...]

So in imagining what this looks like for us, it had been very difficult to figure how out to get this to $1000 quickly, without selling one of our kids. But I think we got it now. Thanks to lending our money to Uncle Sam, and the opportunity to get it back, we will [...]

I went to the Entemanns Store near church this morning and got the following for $18.50:
5 loaves of bread, 2 bags of stuffing mix, 2 boxes of blueberry mini muffins, 3 boxes of donuts, 3 bags of rolls and two bags of bagels!
the total before savings would have been $54.76!!! that’s a savings of [...]

So in a church the size of ours, with a mission to put over 1000 people through FPU this year, it’s obvious a large task. I don’t know the exact number currently, but will by Sunday afternoon, but I imagine that there are at least 130 people going through the Sunday class, and [...]

I went to Kroger for some cold medicine. Amy had clipped a coupon for Theraflu. When I got to the aisle, I had choices. I wanted the medicine I saw on the ad last night…Honey Lemon Infused with Chamomile & White Tea… I didn’t see it but I did see a couple boxes with a [...]

Check this out!
http://www.suave.com/nomics/index.html

So Amy has been working for the last few months at cutting and saving coupons. She’s made lots of progress and is really excited about the money we’re saving, and in some cases …. even being paid- to take merchandise from the store!
I’ll set Amy an account, and a category for couponing deals and tips [...]

So I’m starting this blog to journal our Journey through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University.   I don’t know what kind of things I’ll include, but I got it up and running.