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The New and Improved: Living the Budget Savvy Life |
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Last week I was reading through the last few years of the Living the Budget Savvy Life (LBSL) entries. There is a lot of fun information in that section, but I now realize how event-driven it is. When I think about the websites that I frequent on a regular basis, my interest is really in the details. For example, I love Mireille Guiliano's website (www.mireilleguiliano.com). She is the author of French Women Don't Get Fat. I like to read about the various facets of her life; how she eats, where she travels as well as her philosophies on food and life.
In looking at Budget Savvy as a whole, I now see that we are giving pieces to the puzzle, but we haven't given a really good picture of what the finished puzzle looks like. We provide a great deal of valuable information to our readers through:
* The articles that we publish which cover specific topics.
* The Budget Savvy World Report which is an aggregator for budget living news pulled from newspapers and magazines from around the world.
* Our eBook, the Budget Savvy Lesson Plan, which shows you how to get your financial house in order, save money in the various areas of your life and offers exercises to help you adapt the Budget Savvy philosophies to your own life.
In my pursuit of living the Budget Savvy live, I implement the habits, tips and tricks of budget living as a matter of course. The LBSL section should be the heart of the website. It should tie all of the elements together.
Moving forward, my goal is to write 4 – 6 entries per week and add much more detail about my every day life. For example, I spend 4 – 5 hours, four nights a week at our martial arts school, Fearless Fitness. Although teaching martial arts may not sound like it has anything to do with budget living, there are aspects of it that cross over. Throughout the summer many of our students brought produce from their gardens to share with the other students. Between the supply at Fearless and frequent visits to my mom's garden, the only fruit I bought this summer were bananas for my banana-loving 20 month old.
Another budget living opportunity I am proud to write about is our pantry. Over the course of this summer, Paul and I planned our meals around the surplus of food that we had stored in our pantry. By planning our meals around what we already had, we managed to shave $10 - $30 off of each grocery bill for the last four months.
I am excited to start writing more frequently and in more detail as my family and I live the Budget Savvy life. On a personal level, I am looking forward to this. In addition to sharing with all of you, this is an opportunity for me to use the website as the journal I have always wanted to keep.
Over the course of the next few weeks, I would love your feedback on the new and improved Living the Budget Savvy Life. You can email me at Melissa@budgetsavvymag.com. I look forward to hearing from you.
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