Homemade Dairy Free Hot Butter Beer

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This is so much easier than I expected! We've been reading our way through the Harry Potter series and on a recent cold day decided to try a recipe for Dairy-Free Butter Beer. After searching for a recipe and not finding one, I combined a few different recipes to create this one. Homemade Dairy Free … Continue reading Homemade Dairy Free Hot Butter Beer

No Spend Month Updates

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I knew the lessons of this year’s No Spend February lessons were sinking in when I finally figured out what to add to a perpetually empty and dusty but very usable shelf and more importantly when our family conversations about want and need changed to what we are individually and together saving to buy later. … Continue reading No Spend Month Updates

How to Do a No Spend Month

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It’s No Spend February! Traditionally once a year our family takes a month to evaluate our spending patterns and consumer behaviors. Sometimes this takes place in January, other times in February. We specifically choose the winter months because we are already spending more time at home. Taking a month's break to purposely evaluate what we … Continue reading How to Do a No Spend Month

5 Pro Tips To Lower Your Utility Bills For Free

5 Pro Tips To Lower Your Utility Bills For Free by aurorameyer.com

Editor’s Note: Here at Dispatches, we are always looking for ways to help our readers do things. For some of our readers, that means helping navigate the working world, for others, it means assisting in the ever challenging question, “what’s for dinner?” For still others, it means figuring out how to balance family life with … Continue reading 5 Pro Tips To Lower Your Utility Bills For Free