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Megan Ross
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We are a family of 5 living in Michigan! Here on my channel I share grocery hauls, day-in-the-life’s, budgeting tips, healthy lifestyle and so much more! Thank you for joining us here🙌🏻
PANTRY CLEAN OUT | | Prepping for a Pantry Challenge
My pantry was so bad and needed to be cleaned out terribly. It's the perfect time to get it done as we prepare for our low spend January and pantry challenge.
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PREP FOR A LOW SPEND JANUARY
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It's that time of year again! Time to scale things back and spend as little money as we possibly can in the month of January. I won't be month long grocery shopping this month. Instead I will be assessing what we need each week and stopping at Aldi on the way home from church. I hope you will follow along with us and let me know in the comments if you decide to join us! ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagr...
2ND CASH STUFFING || December
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It's time for our second cash stuffing of December. Like many people I'm sure, we scaled back our cash stuffing slightly for this last one to make a little bit more room in our budget for the rest of Christmas stuff. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.e...
DECEMBER MID-MONTH GROCERY HAUL
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Here is everything that we need for the rest of December. I will have to go back to the store for a few fresh, salad ingredients closer to Christmas and possibly for some specialty items for New Year's Eve. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.etsy.com/sh...
CASH UNSTUFFING || CONDENSING || $1138 Back To The Bank
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It was time for a large cash unstuffing with all of the Christmas shopping I've been doing. I like to condense the cash in my envelopes when I unstuff since I usually have larger bills going back to the bank. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.etsy.com/...
DECEMBER GROCERY HAUL || A Whole Month of Groceries || Sam's Club, Aldi, Meijer
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Here is all of our groceries for the month of December minus a few fresh ingredients and some holiday food that I will get closer to Christmas. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.etsy.com/shop/JubileePaperGoods?ref=seller-platform-mcnav 🌿Upside App. Cas...
1ST CASH STUFFING || DECEMBER
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It's time for our first cash stuffing of December. I skipped quite a few envelopes in my low priority envelopes because we are prioritizing other things for December. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.etsy.com/shop/JubileePaperGoods?ref=seller-platform...
TRADER JOE'S HOLIDAY HAUL || FAVORITES
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I haven't been to Trader Joe's in a really long time and I thought it would be fun to go and see what they had for holiday items. I also picked up some of my favorites. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.etsy.com/shop/JubileePaperGoods?ref=seller-platfo...
BONUS CASH STUFFING || Magic Month Paycheck
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It's a bonus cash stuffing month! It was nice that this happened so close to Christmas this year. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.etsy.com/shop/JubileePaperGoods?ref=seller-platform-mcnav 🌿Upside App. Cash back on gas purchases! Click this link or us...
DECEMBER MEAL PLAN || Easy, Family-Friendly Recipes
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Here is our menu, minus holiday food, for the whole month of December. I like to do once a month grocery shopping for the most part so that is why I plan it out this way. 🌶️Thai Curry Noodles damndelicious.net/2018/04/18/thai-red-curry-noodle-soup/ 🌶️Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup theforkedspoon.com/creamy-chicken-tortellini-soup/ 🌶️Sheet Pan Parmesan Steak therealfooddietitians.com/sheet-pan-p...
2ND CASH STUFFING OF NOVEMBER
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Here is our second paycheck cash stuffing for the month of November. Things are looking good! I will have one additional bonus cash stuffing at the end of the month because it is an extra paycheck month for us. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.etsy.co...
DISCOUNT GROCERY HAUL || My Favorite Discount Grocery Store
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The girls and I stopped at my favorite discount grocery store on the way home from some appointments and we found a few treasures. They didn't have very much this time but I still found some good items to come home with. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods w...
CASH UNSTUFFING & CONDENSING
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I've been doing some online shopping so it's time to unstuff some cash from my cash envelopes. I like to condense with the money I unstuff so I don't have to make extra trips to the bank to take out money to condense my envelopes when they get too large. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross50...
NOVEMBER GROCERY HAUL || A Whole Month of Groceries
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It's time for our monthly grocery haul from Aldi, Sam's Club, and Meijer. This is everything we will need for the whole month minus a few fresh ingredients that I will get halfway through the month. Also, because it's Thanksgiving this month, I will have a separate list that I will go back for closer to Thanksgiving. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook pro...
1ST CASH STUFFING || November
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It's time to get our cash all set up for the month of November! It's a magic month for us as well so stay tuned for a bonus cash stuffing at the end of the month. ✨LET’S CONNECT✨ 🌿Instagram meganross8 🌿Facebook profile.php?id= 🌿Plexus website www.plexusworldwide.com/meganross500 🌿Etsy Shop Jublilee Papergoods www.etsy.com/shop/JubileePaperGoods?ref=seller-platform-mcn...
NOVEMBER MEAL PLAN || Easy Family Friendly Recipes
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NOVEMBER MEAL PLAN || Easy Family Friendly Recipes
NEW CASH ENVELOPE SETUP || Aesthetic Dollar Order
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NEW CASH ENVELOPE SETUP || Aesthetic Dollar Order
OCTOBER MEAL PLAN || Easy, Family-Friendly Recipes
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OCTOBER MEAL PLAN || Easy, Family-Friendly Recipes
FOOD STORAGE UPDATE || What I Store & Why
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FOOD STORAGE UPDATE || What I Store & Why
SPEND THE DAY WITH ME || Shopping From My Envelopes
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SPEND THE DAY WITH ME || Shopping From My Envelopes
FULL DAY OF FOOD || Healthy What I Eat in a Day
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FULL DAY OF FOOD || Healthy What I Eat in a Day
Happy New Year🥳 I was hoping you do this challenge this year. I love your consistency & wish you great success. I had an extremely ruff 2024😢 I’ve been on & off of YT & I’m so far behind on videos as well. However, it’s a new year, I’m back & will catch up. I will definitely be doing this low spend with you & I will continue it throughout 2025.
Happy New Year!!! I’m sorry you’ve had a such a rough year. I’ve missed your YT videos so I was happy when you started posting again! Good luck on your low spend January😊😊
@ Awww Thank you so much🥰
Hi Megan, I just happened upon your channel. I am doing the pantry, fridge, freezer challenge too, starting TODAY. 😊 I’m super excited about it too. I made an inventory of all food in both of our pantry’s and kitchen freezer and garage freezer and I am AMAZED at how many meals I have been able to put together with what we have. It’s crazy. Good luck with your challenge and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
That’s wonderful!!! Good luck to you and Happy New Year!
Glad I found this, I told my sister Jodi this was planned for our family and she asked if I had watched your videos on it. I told her prayers are appreciated, this is a struggle for me!😊
Hey Julie!!! Good luck and I will for sure be praying for you. You can do it!!!
Happy New Years Eve, Megan
Happy New Year to you as well Mary!!!!
Hey Megan I need to do this ❤
I always put it off but it feels so good when it’s done!!!!
@@meganross yes I agree. I'm gona do that this week!!!
Doing this along with you!
Yay!!!!! Good luck to you!
I tried a no spend January this year and it blew up half way through. So many things came up. I like your idea of a low spend month. Plan for what we know is coming and try to reduce the grocery budget and other low priorities.
I learn something about how to prepare better each time I do it!
I will be doing this with you as well! Thanks for the inspiration! My freezers and pantry need cleaned out so this will be the perfect motivation to make that happen.
Good luck!!!! It’s such a good feeling to get the pantry and freezers cleaned out😊
We are going to try a low spend and shelf cook month. We have never done this! We are empty nesters but have had a health crisis this year so it’s been expensive.
Cheering you on!!!!! You will learn so much😊
I am trying this.
Yay!!!! Good luck! Can’t wait to hear how it went for you at the end of the month😊
This is great i kit try the no spend is impossible
A low spend is the way to go for us!! Let me know how it goes for you😊
@meganross i will im gona try even w my groc we spend to muchhh
We are going to try and do this as well. 😊
Yay!!!!! Good luck to you!
@ thank you!
Can I ask where you purchase your cash envelopes and binders?
I made my cash envelopes and I got my binders from The Aesthetic Dollar. I love her stuff!
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I'm your new subscriber, nice to meet you
Welcome! Glad to have you here💙
@@meganross thank you🙏🏻🤗🤗
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If you had to choose one would it be Costco or Sam’s? I am wanting to get a membership and really only want to do one. Great video as well. ❤
I would choose Sam’s over Costco simply because of cost. I love the choice of healthier, unique items at Costco but Sam’s has everything you need and each individual item is cheaper at Sam’s club. I also LOVE Sam’s club pharmacy
@ thank you! I do like healthy foods, but we need to save money where we can. We will go with Sam’s. 😃
Hey Megan Merry Christmas 🎅
Merry Christmas to you as well!!!!!
@meganross thankss
Awesome cash stuffing 💌
Thanks for watching!😍
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Merry Christmas Mary!
It is the same way here in Ontario, Canada, 50$ does not stretch anymore sadly! I am not a fan of Walmart either, because I find it way too expensive here!
In the U.S., Walmart is actually one of the cheapest places you can shop but I dislike it for so many reasons😂
❤❤ omg i tried no spend jan last yr w a joke i couldnt do it LOL
Try a low spend January! Just try to spend as little as possible. I personally don’t think a No Spend is possible with kids and their activities😂
@meganross omg ya i dont either but a low spend would be fun to try 🤪
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No tissue for over a week- whoa! I couldn't handle that
There was definitely complaining!😂
I don't normally drink egg nog, but cut with vernors sounds amazing! Trying that!
It’s so good! You should try it😊
Hey megan how do u decide w to put in enevlopes weekly???
My husband and I use Dave Ramsey’s free app called EveryDollar and we budget out all of our bills. What’s leftover goes into the cash envelopes categories. This is why I have a high priority binder and a low priority binder. The high priorities gets stuffed first and if there is anything left, it goes to my low priority envelopes😊
@meganross oic. Ok awesome... i wanna get to a pt like that w unstuffing. But I duno what I am doing wrong haha I'm new at all this
The first step is to have a budget! Tell every dollar where to go. Make sure all bills are paid first and then you can start thinking of envelopes you would like to have. Some envelopes get spent every month like groceries, etc. but then you need to think about things that only happen every other month or quarterly that you would like to start saving up for to be prepared. Those are called sinking funds and they make such a huge difference in your budget and staying on track!
Hi Megan. Newbie here watching, enjoying, and supporting ❤❤❤❤
Thanks so much for watching!!!!
I think it was fun. You took at $50 out the tray, but only put back $40
That was it! Thank you😍
Hi Megan 👋 great unstuffing and condensing 😊🩵
Thank you!
It looks like fun is where the $10 is. Thanks for another video!
Thank you!
I think it was short in the fun envelope. You put back 40 in exchange for a 50. Great video though ❤😊 it’s hard work to get it all correct.
Thank you! That’s where it went😊
@ you’re welcome! 😊👍🏼
13:32 you overstuffed your fun envelope you only counted $89but stuffed an extra $10 so it was $99
@ that was it! Thank you😊
Great grocery haul
Thank you!
Great haul, thank you for sharing
Thank you for watching!!!
Great haul! Ice coffee in winter yes!
I have a major addiction going on!
Great video! I feel our family eats similarly to yours. Trying to make better choices in regard to oils. I still buy just regular mayo, but our Costco has a better option...it's just so much more $$$ and there are 10 of us! And yes! Always shop at Aldi first!
I’ve tried all the healthy mayos and I just don’t like the flavor at all! And they are very expensive!
I'd love to see your holiday menu plan too! Great ideas here!
Thank you!
Great haul and I like iced coffee in winter too 😂.
Thanks for watching! I have a major addiction going on with the iced coffee😂
@ you’re welcome. Oh I do too!😂
Hi, new here 😊 growing up we didn’t have much food although there was a means to buy food, my father just didn’t work or provide and he was abusive and we rarely ate. He kept all of the government assistance money to himself. When my mother escaped from him, we had 3 meals and a snack or desert. when I lost my mom at 14, I always had this mindset about food shortage and preparing for life’s events. With him, it was one meal a day and it was the same thing everyday, hamburgers and he thought we were eating breakfast and lunch in school like we did when we were kids but we weren’t kids anymore more, we were teenagers. I got a job in high school, the youngest, to buy things my mother bought. But minimum wage was $5.15 at the time. He left all the responsibility on me to care for my siblings since I’m female. My peers didn’t think that or romantic partners. They actually saw my home as a convenience store, they thought the more I had, they could just eat it up, because they didn’t cook or their mother or father didn’t teach them certain things. I store food for the very exact reasons. I’ve severed ties with these people years ago because I would never go to someone’s home and eat up their food and not replenish it. That’s money down the drain because when I fell on hard times, no one bought me food.
I’m so sorry you had to go through that growing up🙏🏻 Thank you for sharing that with me. It’s doesn’t matter the reason, it’s always a good idea to have some food storage. I feel bad for people who think they will never need it so they do nothing to be prepared. We can’t predict what’s going to happen to us so I would rather be prepared than be caught with nothing.
@@meganross You’re welcome! Thanks for reading! 😊🙏🏽 Exactly, it’s always good to be prepared. I’ve always been the prepared one because I know how it is to be without or not like the hassle of going to the store all the time. The anxiety I get with crowded stores🥴😁. Delivery is fine sometimes like with instacart but I’d rather go myself when I can because they jack up the price on these apps.
Dill pickle pizza, Interesting. Sounds good. Great haul, Megan 🎅🤶🧑🎄
Thank you Mary! Merry Christmas!!!
Our aldi just started carrying the petite diced tomatoes, I was surprised to see it yesterday, but who knows if it’s a limited time thing , look for them at your aldi 🤷♀️I agree I do aldi first to see what they have then hit up my other stores , great haul !
I hope my Aldi starts carrying them! I will look next time I’m there😊
Im late to this but the feminine products are also a HSA expense. I do it all the time!
I didn’t know that!
It’s newish- I want to say it got approved sometime last year but I’ve taken full advantage of it
Happy Friday!
Thank you! To you as well💙
Awesome cash stuffing 💌
Thanks for watching!💙
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Thank you for always watching Laura!💙
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Yummy ideas! Random but what pen are you using? Thanks!
A pack of pens I got off of Temu😂 I love them so much. I think Amazon has some just like it. Look for the ones they have that little ball on the clip part and are fine point. I love a pen that has a roller ball that lets the ink out. I’m pretty picky about my pens😂
I love your videos! I know you use a zero based budget but how do you decide how much to put in each envelope and what envelopes to skip etc. I struggle with that and would love your input
Thank you for watching! Sometimes my husband and I decide together but we always talk about it even if we don’t plan it out together. We use Dave Ramsey’s app EveryDollar and we’ve always used the free version. It works perfectly for us. I look ahead to the month and see what we have going on, how much time we have to save up for something, etc. and that really helps me with knowing how to prioritize which envelope gets stuffed and which gets skipped. That’s part of the reason I have a high priority binder and low priority binder. Everything in the high priority gets stuffed first and if there’s any money leftover, then I can work on the low priority binder. All the cash I stuff is what’s left over after all our bills are paid and necessities are taken care of. I hope that helps!💙
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Thanks for watching!!!💙