Consignment Shops!

About a year ago, I participated in a garage sale and I made a whole $2. I was thrilled! A better choice for me would have been to consign some of my old items. There are a lot of benefits to “selling” your old stuff, here are a couple:

• De-clutter your home.
• Make money.
• Help another person buy something they can afford.

If you live in Utah, there is a great consignment going on in Logan next week exclusively for “Baby Items.” Check out www.thedivvyup.com for more info. What I like about the divvyup is that it was started by two Moms. They are also giving back to the community by giving a portion of sales to local schools. It is a great way to sell stuff you don’t need, and help out your own community.

Here is also a website that gives you the “heads up” on consignments in your own area, www.thebargainwatcher.com

There are so many ways to make and save money! How have you made consigning work for you? What are some of your own tips?

Budget Tool

Since this is a site on how to buy your food storage, I really want to get off on the right foot. The most important thing to have is a budget. You need to know where your money is going. Keeping track of it every month helps you to know where you save/spend your money. Below is a budget that you can easily put in all your financial information, and you can make improvements where you need to!

Yes- there is a category for 3 month Food Supply & Long Term Food Storage! Unless you can afford it, it is not wise to go out and buy your food storage all at once. It is important to build your food storage monthly so you don’t go into any debt acquiring it. You can also see what you are using out of your food storage, and get the items you actually use!

Here is the Excel Budget Tracker

1. Download the file and save it as “Monthly Budget Tracker - Master”
2. On the excel sheet, any cell that is shaded does NOT need to be filled it. Just input numbers into the white cells only.
3. Input all the information into the “Projected” cells. Save file.
4. Each month, go into your file and input your actual costs. Each month you need to save a different file under “Budget - (Name of month).
5. Analyze where you are spending your money. Try your best to put as much into savings as possible. Figure out how much you can put into food storage. Realize it is a goal worth putting money into!

I hope the tool is helpful. Also, a quick note, I added an RSS feed to my site. It is on the right hand side. Feel free to add me to your RSS feed to get my weekly posts. Thanks!