The Gift of Enough

It all started with a picture and comment my friend and coworker, Connie, put on Facebook. I like my little Living With Less So Your Family Has More car, but honestly I get razzed about it all the time.  “What CEO drives a 23 year old car?” I’ve been...

Is There Really Sex After Kids?

Sex…I could go the rest of my life without it!” I said to my husband, Mark, as we drove up to the bed-and-breakfast we had reserved for a two-day getaway. “I have no desire. I’m so tired, and I can’t seem to ever meet your needs!”...

Blog Hop: How Do You Teach Your Kids About Money?

Mark and I have always believed that teaching our kids money management strategies needs to be a priority. When they were small, we gave them one dollar a week for allowance…in dimes.  Then we had them manage their money with the 10-10-80 principle.  10% to God,...

Chore Timecard

Pay for chores? Not pay for chores? Ah the debate. Over 27 years of parenting, we’ve been all over the map on this issue.  We’ve done allowance, we’ve done no allowance. We have tied allowance to chores. We’ve separated allowance from chores....

Our Justin Bieber character-building experience

For some time, people have been telling our son how much he looks like Justin Bieber.  We definitely saw the similarity and kept telling Austin that he needed to find a look-a-like job and make some money. Last summer, we were visiting our son and his wife who live in...

Living With Less: Affordable College Education

As Mark and I state in the first few sentences of our “College: Higher Education at Lower Cost” chapter in Living With Less So Your Family Has More book…”If you want to know one Savage parenting regret, just ask us about our experience leading...