Living with Less
By Jill Savage

April 2010

Decorating on a Shoe String Budget
April 30, 2010
Years ago, a friend and I spent a day wadding up Saran Wrap, dipping it in paint, and painting a faux finish on the walls in my stairway and hallway. The finish is beautiful and it cost me just $15 for the plastic wrap and the paint. Painting is not my most favorite project to tackle, but the finished job was worth the effort.

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Peer Pressure
April 20, 2010
After spending the past year writing my newest book Living With Less So Your Family Has More, I’ve really been thinking about the reality of adult peer pressure.
The words “peer pressure” usually refer to the pressure to conform that teenagers experience. But if we’re honest, peer pressure doesn’t stop after the teen years…it continues right on into adulthood.
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Weddings on a Budget
April 6, 2010
A mom stopped me last summer after reading a newspaper article that stated the average cost of a wedding was now $25,000.
“Jill, did you read that article about the cost of weddings these days?” I replied that I had seen the article to which she referred. She continued with, “I know your daughter is getting married next month. Please tell me that you can do a nice wedding for less than that.”
I responded that indeed we were spending far less than half of that number.
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Jill Savage is a seven-time author and Founder and CEO of Hearts at Home, an organization that encourages, educates, and equips moms. She is the mom of three adult children and two teenagers still at home. You can find Jill online here at Guideposts as well as on her personal blog jillsavage.org or the Hearts at Home blog and website hearts-at-home.org.