I just have to say that getting on here to find that you were praying for me and my family really blessed my heart. We took a trip to Houston to visit my parents in January and then shared a bug that required lots of mommy cuddles. We are completely fine now! I am sorry that I had to leave you for a short time. I missed serving you in the area of sharing money saving tips. I think sometimes we can get frazzled out by the daily life of the Internet and lose focus of our family. I know I needed to re-prioritize my schedule and am working that out soon. Love you all!

You have to read Ellie Kay’s new book titled Living Rich for Less. Being apart of this blog tour is very special to me because Ellie’s book, Shop, Save and Share was one of the very first books that got me into using coupons and saving money! Ellie is one brilliant thrifty woman! Her new book is jam packed with literally hundreds of great money saving tips! The book is a good read, it’s really fun to get into Ellie’s writing style. Ellie talks about the fact that she is a natural born saver and her husband is a natural born spender and how they learned to meet in the middle. A very important lesson for die hard savers to learn to be easy on their spouses! My favorite part of the books is that it talks about how to strive to have a giving heart and how great it is to truly love to give to others. She shares the secret that you always end up being blessed when you are on the giving end of things.

I highly recommend Living Rich for Less, it’s full of great frugal knowledge! Here is another summary provided by Random House and you can purchase this book here .

So you want to own the home you love, make memories on wonderful vacations with family or friends, finance college educations, and help others too? You can—starting here and now. With lively humor, proven know-how, and practical principles for financial health, Living Rich for Less helps you stretch your dollars to realize the lifestyle of your dreams. Ellie Kay’s entertaining and enlightening examples show you simple steps to save, spend, and give smart, and her three main principles are undergirded by dozens of effective rules and hundreds of Cha-Ching Factor™ tips that keep or put money in your pocket. Ellie knows what it’s like to be financially-strapped or struggling, wanting to be the Joneses but feeling as poor in spirit as in pocketbook. She went, within two and a half years, from being a new wife and mom with $40,000 in consumer debt and seven children (and college educations) to support, to being completely debt-free and within fifteen years able to pay cash for eleven different cars, give away three of those cars, buy two five-bedroom houses (moving from one to the other) and nicely furnish each, take wonderful vacations, dress her family in fine fashion; and support more than thirty non-profit organizations in more than a dozen different countries, giving away more than $100,000. Isn’t that the kind of transformation to a rich life that you want? Living Rich for Less helps anyone get there in our taxed-out, maxed-out times. Because financial security doesn’t mean just genuine prosperity, but being able to live luxuriously, give generously, and care for yourself as well as the others around you.