I'll be writing about the joys of home making on a budget. As a stay-at-home-mom for 25 years, living on one income, we have had to follow a budget and that has been very freeing for us. What prompted me to start this blog was something I read on the news a few weeks ago....that the average Canadian is spending 1.64 for every dollar earned. Yikes!
Our society has needs and wants confused. We and our children are influenced by the advertisements that bombard us daily and, for many, spending has gotten out of control. Practicing frugality simply means to spend less than one earns - it is a way of life, a lifestyle with the end result of financial freedom but it takes discipline to maintain that way of life. For my hubby and I, it is focusing on needs (also needs in Third World poverty) rather than wants. What would God have us do with the money He has entrusted to us?
