What's Going on? Why so much budget ???

if you follow us then you know we are not ones to put our self on budgets even with a large family, we do watch what we buy but have never been too strict on it, over the past few months we have made some pretty drastic choices in our life, and have decided to turn things around, more than a 360. our path involves god as our leader, now if you know us god has always been number 1 in our life we have always tried our best as a family and as individuals to follow him and choose his path.

so let me just get to the point, the last few years we have certainly been living way beyond our needs and means, i mean we took a pretty expensive vacation that we could of put a lot down on our house, we bough a brand new min van along with a lawn business, add all your other means to that, and next thing you know you feel you are drowning and overwhelmed, so we have decided to live within our means and purchase our home cash or almost have it paid for,
as y'all know we did just move to Florida not even quite a month ago, but one thing that we have not been saying is Florida is our middle state meaning this is where we chose to stay until we find where we want to purchase our house, our goal is not to stay here more then 2 years, to be honest i hope its not more then one, but we shall leave that in the lord's hands.

we have some personal projects we are working on and praying they take off.

as far as moving we do like it up north but the problem with raising a family well large family it tends to be really pricey and that's why we moved down south to get a breather from that type of living.

we have been looking into Utah and Wyoming but i am not sure we would ''fit in ''  so we have given our self a few months to decide what state we want to buy a house in, research everything and take a few trips there to see how it is, yes its crazy but until you find your ''place'' you have to keep looking.

so again to the budget, i normally go to the grocery store, including Sam's club or Costco's or bj's and just spend and next thing you know i have spent $300-$500 on groceries and after a week I'm confused as to why we need more, i have realized that we are wasting too much and spending too much, a few years ago we decided to make everything from scratch and we saved so much money that we bought then our car cash, so i know that we are wasting and spending way too much.

our plans and goals?
live week to week, only buy what i am cooking for breakfast lunch and dinner and make everything from scratch, the past 2 weeks my grocery bills have been under $50 yup and that's for 8 of us!!! crazy right? i have only bought what i need for that week and used a lot from my pantry and made a lot of things. what we saved has gone in our 'moving funds' and 'van funds' why van funds you ask? well we have decided that paying $600 a month is outrageous for a car so we are going to trade her in and purchase a 14 passenger with no debt, we hope to do this by march, (not new) and save that money towards out ''moving funds'' our ''moving funds'' also get all the change we collect from that week, once we get the van then we can focus more on that.

i will be sharing some recipes on here and on our YouTube channel on how we save, i will also include my meal plans and what i will be cooking that week and the cost of everything and how saving is going, i hope that i can help someone along the way, i know our family has been over spending and we all are participating in this.
the kids love to travel so this is all adventures for them, yes it could be 2 years away but for the kids its like a treasure hunt believe it or not.

before i leave you i want to clear something, we are planning on buying our house ( still not decided where) in cash, it will obviously be a fixer upper and that's what we are looking for to make our own. we have seen so many houses going for under a hundred thousand and even under fifty thousand in some states, so we know potential is out there.

we ask you guys for prayer along this journey and we are so excited that we have taken this step to climb all the way up the right way.

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as always stay safe and blessed

R~