Jill, I can appreciate your story so much. I had a husband who had a mid life temper tantrum and left me and our five girls. He’s “moved on” seamlessly but the hurt and emotional scars continue on. I am Grateful to God for being with me every step of the way. I lived heavily on prayer and the Book of Proverbs.
Please don't apologize for mentioning your books every chance you can get. I bought Penny Pinching Mama several years ago and even though I am no longer in debt, I re-read it often as inspiration to be creative in living well frugally. In fact, I think it would be good if you mentioned Patreon a little more. I signed up for Patreon and think it is well worth it. It's a small price for the savings I get if I use even one tip or dinner idea month. I used recipes from Dining on a Dime when my grand-daughter was born and I wanted to make several dinners for my daughter and hubby to be able to pull out of the freezer. The month before the baby came, I made double batches - we ate one and I froze the rest for them. At the end of the month, I had spent less money than normal on groceries even though I had been cooking for two families! You guys deserve anything you can make from viewers who benefit from your experience, videos and books.
You have such an amazing attitude with all you have been though. Love your uplifting stories. I am the one stalking you at Joanns. It was nice meeting you!
It was so much fun meeting and visiting with you too. It was so funny the way we kept running into each other. I don't know who was stalking who. :) Hope you are having good luck with getting your projects made. I have been looking at those microwave bowls and thinking about trying to make one because they look like they might be really handy to use. Anyway so glad you popped in to say hi. Thanks for watching. : )
I stumbled on your channel yesterday and binge-watched all day long. This Penny Pinching Mama series really grabbed me and when I realized I had to wait for more episodes I nearly threw my computer across the room! I was raised in a similar situation (without quite as much drama) with similar values and penny pinching methods, so this story really rings my memory bell. I'm still very much a make-do-and-mend person. Your observations about people selfishly putting themselves first is so spot on. That describes most of my friends. I can't tell you how many times they justify using that credit card with, "I deserve it." Yeah well, you deserve that mountain of debt too. I think a lot of it is that they can't tell themselves "no" because nobody ever told them "no." It's all about instant gratification and never about that wonderful sense of satisfaction for earning, setting goals, saving up and finally acquiring something you planned for. Keep on preaching!
I love this video, I have always told my kids, no other person can make you happy, happy comes from inside, do not expect anyone to be responsible for your happiness. Very good conversation today!
Our family made a commitment, three ago, to each other to give only gifts that we have made with our own hands. Not only have we saved a TON of money, but we are more thoughtful about the gifts that we give and also more grateful for the gifts that we recieve
This series has put me through the gamut of emotions, and it has been so important. I've learned so much and have been encouraged during a time when I really need to hear your stories. Much love to you all! And thank you for your "tough love" to all of us along the way, too.
So enjoying this series, too. We were so in debt, too. Took us eight years to get a grip on finances. He always asks how do people afford nice cars and houses. I tell him that they owe it all and they can't just stop working if they want. After 30 plus years, you can come home (he wasn't doing well physically), because we don't have that sort of debt anymore.
I really liked this video. my grandma always said "god takes care of us" and its proven here. You are good people. I love how humbled you all are and have great values. I wish more people in our world were like you.
This story kind of reminds me of my ex husband and his father. The stuff they pulled was selfish and people did get hurt. I am sharing your story with my ex husband's mother. We get along like a mother and daughter. It will validated more of what we went through. My ex was one of those people who would buy expensive toys with tax money and then blame me for our debt. I wish I could have heard your story in 2011 when my ex husband's selfishness sent him to prison and left me with our four children in a town of 1800 people, half who hated me for what my ex did. Thank You. Can't wait for next installment.
My single Dad was a factory worker. We always knew when Dad was "laid off". We'd come home from school and he was putting away TONS and TONS of groceries. He was raising 4 hungry kids back then! Love this show as much as the past 10 or is this #12!? LOL!
omgoodness Jill your life is truly a soap opera and everytime a segment ends I'm screaming NOOOOOO what happens next! I have thought about your words so many times during my own craziness with my separation and think MINES BAD BUT JILL WAS WORSE.....so thankful your doing this because it truly seems it's done just for me and I love your advice from a hindsight point of view and a Christian point of view. Thank-you again!
I got a kick out of your comment Billy because Tawra always says that her life in the kitchen is the best example for what people are not suppose to do and now I can say my life is an example of how much worse things could be. : ) :) Seriously though thank you for your comment. In one strange way it makes everything I went through worth it if it will help others at least. I love our regulars on here because you guys are all so encouraging.
Love you guys so much! Thanks for your story! We went through some similar things when I was young, but my mom was pregnant with her 9th child, we were living in below zero blizzards in Canada then, and all the kids went through mumps and measles one by one, with two young brothers having bronchial asthma often in dual oxygen tents in the hospital. God helped us survive, and He,as well as Mom,gave us a strong faith and work ethic!
This is by far my favorite 'decology.' 😉 Promote away, as it reminded me to order your cookbook and I added Penny Pinching Mama. I have always been extremely frugal with most things. However, this series has reminded me that I fall short in some areas. There is always room for improvement. Thank you so much for sharing.
Love your channel. I love the cooking videos, but also like your message about being in debt and what it does to yourself and others. Think this is one of the best channels on you tube.
so I just watched part 10! i so have enjoyed your story Jill! you are do much like me my life! i was a single mom to 5 lovely kids. your very wise!😃 Thank You
Thank you so much for sharing. I am really enjoying this series of videos. My life has been shockingly similar to this, and so it is such an encouragement to see that it is possible to get through to the other side of such trials. A well-needed reminder to trust the Lord in all things and to be thankful for each and every blessing.
We were lucky because it only leaked in the dining room in two spots. Depending on the wind it would choose one place or the other. We got it fixed now (only took 3 years to save the money) and now we are saving to replace the moldy sagging ceiling. LOL Maybe next year we can have it repaired. We have some friends that will help us but we have to have the money for the supplies.
love Jill's story. Lived thru something comparable, only I wasn't so patient and understanding about it, howevet, god has shown me how. It helps to know others have gone thru similar and survived also. God Bless.
Thank you for sharing, and God Bless. I have followed you for a long time, and your advice is so great. I have taken a Good look at my Life, my routines and what I can do better. And most of all, I have found my way back to God. It is a blessing that he nerver gives up Hope for us, and he will always find a way to bring us back :). Thank you for all your work, and I hope that everyone who sees your stories, tips and ideas will find there way to Patreon!! I just love your cook book, for me to Cook real American food in Sweden has it's challenges and a lot of surprises.
Thank you Pia. We are a little partial to your name. We had a Swedish exchange student stay with us for a year and her name was Pia. Tawra got to go to Sweden too and was going to the University there until she got sick and had to come home.
Love the info about being responsible, I myself pay my bills seriously on time. Have only one last card to pay off, hopefully in six months. Thanks for the wonderful information!!
I completely agree. there at the end.. I work at a store ware you here a lot of parents get mad at the kids for even asking for candy. they say NO.. then they get smokes.
Jill, your conversations and wrestling with finding God's will and meaning just spark joy with the memory of my own. I hope that makes total sense to you.
Be sure to check out Jill's book Penny Pinching Mama: 500 Ways I Lived on $500 a Month to learn all the tips she had to use to survive. www.livingonadime.com/store/penny-pinching-mama/
Thanks for sharing.I fine that subject in my own home.I spend all my money and my other half has many credit cards and I pay everything out of my check and have nothing left.Its not fair to me.Mgt 🌻😀
You may want to put up a donation button? I've given to another site because of his good advice. Btw, I've bought many of your books and ebooks. Love them! Still thinking on the Patreon, too.
nowadays we expect our children to always control their emotions (when eating out, shopping groceries etc.) when most adults just burst out for instance when driving a car...
love these stories!!! your tips and recipes have saved me sooooo much :) question about affiliate links. do you only get paid for the one thing you've linked to or if I follow the link to amazon and decide to buy something else will you get money for that ?
No one should complain about you all promoting your products. That’s like going into a restaurant and telling the owner to stop trying to sell you desserts. Don’t buy them if you aren’t interested people! (Slamming the tabletop)
I feel compelled to comment, I felt horrible after this segment, being widowed last year at 28, a year after having our daughter and starting college. I have considered bankruptcy. I don't want to do it but there are certain life circumstances that make you have no other choice and it makes one feel like a failure to have to do it, so being so harsh about "stealing money" really threw me off.
I'm very sorry for your loss. We aren't talking about people who legitimately have to claim bankruptcy. But if you are paying for your daughters college and not her when that money could go to pay the bills then in that case it would be stealing. If you are doing everything you can to pay the bills, your daughter is responsible for her bills (college tuition, car bills etc. you can let her live at home) then of course that would be a situation where you legitimately can't pay them without your husband's income and I see nothing wrong with that.
After hearing 10 episodes, a lot here is being said about patience toward a spouse, but in all sincerity, it sounds more like enabling going on. A person is not much helped being enabled.
You should not have to apologize for promoting your books on your own channel. It is just what you were talking about, people are selfish and feel intittled .
so sAD WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH JILL BUT YOUR SPIRIT OF FAITH SHINES THROUGH GOD SUSTAINED YOU THROUGH IT ALL I COULD CRY WHAT YOU WENT THRU YOU JILL AND KIDS BUT, GOD
Thank you Ruth. That is so kind and sweet of you and thank so much for praying for us too. Some may not understand how much Satan does not want us doing these things and to have someone praying for our protection means a lot not only your prayers but all of our viewers we really appreciate it.
AM PRAYING AND BELIEVING THAT GOD WILL BLESS YOU WHERE YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY NEEDS IT MOST WEATHER FINNANTIALLY OR PHYSICALLY OR EMOTIONALLY LIKE YOU SAID GOD,S ANGEL ARMIES ARE WATCHING US AND PROTECTING US AND DO GOD,S BIDDING WHEN WE SIMPLY BELIEVE AND TRUST GOD .
I love you all! But your generalization of "selfish people" is not accurate. I was married to a drug addict who was in and out of jail and rehab for most of the 7 years we were together. He refused to really work on our marriage. So when our daughter was 2 years old, I decided that the healthiest thing for my daughter and me was to leave the marriage. It was, to this day, the hardest decision I ever made. And my adult daughter now realizes this. I did a very selfish thing to save the life and sanity of 3 people.
Never insulted by you promoting your books! I love your family and your books!
Jill, I can appreciate your story so much. I had a husband who had a mid life temper tantrum and left me and our five girls. He’s “moved on” seamlessly but the hurt and emotional scars continue on. I am
Grateful to God for being with me every step of the way. I lived heavily on prayer and the Book of Proverbs.
Please don't apologize for mentioning your books every chance you can get. I bought Penny Pinching Mama several years ago and even though I am no longer in debt, I re-read it often as inspiration to be creative in living well frugally. In fact, I think it would be good if you mentioned Patreon a little more. I signed up for Patreon and think it is well worth it. It's a small price for the savings I get if I use even one tip or dinner idea month. I used recipes from Dining on a Dime when my grand-daughter was born and I wanted to make several dinners for my daughter and hubby to be able to pull out of the freezer. The month before the baby came, I made double batches - we ate one and I froze the rest for them. At the end of the month, I had spent less money than normal on groceries even though I had been cooking for two families! You guys deserve anything you can make from viewers who benefit from your experience, videos and books.
Selfish people drive me nuts . I did purchase the Penny Pinching Mama book I love it . Thanks so much for your videos :)
Thanks so much!
I'm laughing my TV was $13.00 at the Goodwill and it was all I could afford.
You have such an amazing attitude with all you have been though. Love your uplifting stories. I am the one stalking you at Joanns. It was nice meeting you!
It was so much fun meeting and visiting with you too. It was so funny the way we kept running into each other. I don't know who was stalking who. :) Hope you are having good luck with getting your projects made. I have been looking at those microwave bowls and thinking about trying to make one because they look like they might be really handy to use. Anyway so glad you popped in to say hi. Thanks for watching. : )
I stumbled on your channel yesterday and binge-watched all day long. This Penny Pinching Mama series really grabbed me and when I realized I had to wait for more episodes I nearly threw my computer across the room! I was raised in a similar situation (without quite as much drama) with similar values and penny pinching methods, so this story really rings my memory bell. I'm still very much a make-do-and-mend person. Your observations about people selfishly putting themselves first is so spot on. That describes most of my friends. I can't tell you how many times they justify using that credit card with, "I deserve it." Yeah well, you deserve that mountain of debt too. I think a lot of it is that they can't tell themselves "no" because nobody ever told them "no." It's all about instant gratification and never about that wonderful sense of satisfaction for earning, setting goals, saving up and finally acquiring something you planned for. Keep on preaching!
That is so true ! People can't tell themselves No because they were NEVER told No !
I love this video, I have always told my kids, no other person can make you happy, happy comes from inside, do not expect anyone to be responsible for your happiness. Very good conversation today!
Our family made a commitment, three ago, to each other to give only gifts that we have made with our own hands. Not only have we saved a TON of money, but we are more thoughtful about the gifts that we give and also more grateful for the gifts that we recieve
This series has put me through the gamut of emotions, and it has been so important. I've learned so much and have been encouraged during a time when I really need to hear your stories. Much love to you all! And thank you for your "tough love" to all of us along the way, too.
So enjoying this series, too. We were so in debt, too. Took us eight years to get a grip on finances. He always asks how do people afford nice cars and houses. I tell him that they owe it all and they can't just stop working if they want. After 30 plus years, you can come home (he wasn't doing well physically), because we don't have that sort of debt anymore.
I really liked this video. my grandma always said "god takes care of us" and its proven here. You are good people. I love how humbled you all are and have great values. I wish more people in our world were like you.
This story kind of reminds me of my ex husband and his father. The stuff they pulled was selfish and people did get hurt. I am sharing your story with my ex husband's mother. We get along like a mother and daughter. It will validated more of what we went through. My ex was one of those people who would buy expensive toys with tax money and then blame me for our debt. I wish I could have heard your story in 2011 when my ex husband's selfishness sent him to prison and left me with our four children in a town of 1800 people, half who hated me for what my ex did. Thank You. Can't wait for next installment.
Thank you so much for sharing your hard-earned advice and wisdom, folks! The world desperately needs to hear this!
My single Dad was a factory worker. We always knew when Dad was "laid off". We'd come home from school and he was putting away TONS and TONS of groceries. He was raising 4 hungry kids back then! Love this show as much as the past 10 or is this #12!? LOL!
omgoodness Jill your life is truly a soap opera and everytime a segment ends I'm screaming NOOOOOO what happens next!
I have thought about your words so many times during my own craziness with my separation and think MINES BAD BUT JILL WAS WORSE.....so thankful your doing this because it truly seems it's done just for me and I love your advice from a hindsight point of view and a Christian point of view.
Thank-you again!
I got a kick out of your comment Billy because Tawra always says that her life in the kitchen is the best example for what people are not suppose to do and now I can say my life is an example of how much worse things could be.
: ) :) Seriously though thank you for your comment. In one strange way it makes everything I went through worth it if it will help others at least. I love our regulars on here because you guys are all so encouraging.
Love you guys so much! Thanks for your story! We went through some similar things when I was young, but my mom was pregnant with her 9th child, we were living in below zero blizzards in Canada then, and all the kids went through mumps and measles one by one, with two young brothers having bronchial asthma often in dual oxygen tents in the hospital. God helped us survive, and He,as well as Mom,gave us a strong faith and work ethic!
Thank you. Keep plugging your book. You all are appreciated more than you know.
This video means so much to me because we came to homesteading via frugality. The things you're saying are so true. People need to LISTEN!!! LEARN!!!
I love your Mary Engelbreit collection!
Thank you so much again for sharing your story. Always a reminder of how fortunate my life has been.
I agree with you. Not paying off your debt is theft....
Keep the story coming. I loved Penny Pinching Mama, so did my daughter. Thanks for opening up your lives to us.
You are very nivel people .please carry on with your vídeos.I have started saving thanks to you.
This is by far my favorite 'decology.' 😉
Promote away, as it reminded me to order your cookbook and I added Penny Pinching Mama.
I have always been extremely frugal with most things. However, this series has reminded me that I fall short in some areas. There is always room for improvement. Thank you so much for sharing.
Good night guys....I'll be back tomorrow for more binge watching. :) .... and I will be buying your cookbook and Jill's book soon!
Love your channel. I love the cooking videos, but also like your message about being in debt and what it does to yourself and others. Think this is one of the best channels on you tube.
so I just watched part 10! i so have enjoyed your story Jill! you are do much like me my life! i was a single mom to 5 lovely kids. your very wise!😃 Thank You
Thank you so much for sharing. I am really enjoying this series of videos. My life has been shockingly similar to this, and so it is such an encouragement to see that it is possible to get through to the other side of such trials. A well-needed reminder to trust the Lord in all things and to be thankful for each and every blessing.
We were lucky because it only leaked in the dining room in two spots. Depending on the wind it would choose one place or the other. We got it fixed now (only took 3 years to save the money) and now we are saving to replace the moldy sagging ceiling. LOL Maybe next year we can have it repaired. We have some friends that will help us but we have to have the money for the supplies.
People tend to forget one major thing. Where ever they still are taking themselves with them.
love Jill's story. Lived thru something comparable, only I wasn't so patient and understanding about it, howevet, god has shown me how. It helps to know others have gone thru similar and survived also. God Bless.
Thank you for sharing, and God Bless. I have followed you for a long time, and your advice is so great. I have taken a Good look at my Life, my routines and what I can do better. And most of all, I have found my way back to God. It is a blessing that he nerver gives up Hope for us, and he will always find a way to bring us back :). Thank you for all your work, and I hope that everyone who sees your stories, tips and ideas will find there way to Patreon!! I just love your cook book, for me to Cook real American food in Sweden has it's challenges and a lot of surprises.
Thank you Pia. We are a little partial to your name. We had a Swedish exchange student stay with us for a year and her name was Pia. Tawra got to go to Sweden too and was going to the University there until she got sick and had to come home.
Love the info about being responsible, I myself pay my bills seriously on time. Have only one last card to pay off, hopefully in six months. Thanks for the wonderful information!!
I love the story of your journey
I completely agree. there at the end.. I work at a store ware you here a lot of parents get mad at the kids for even asking for candy. they say NO.. then they get smokes.
Thank you for taking about these things! I couldn't agree more.
Jill, your conversations and wrestling with finding God's will and meaning just spark joy with the memory of my own. I hope that makes total sense to you.
I LOVE the Penny Pinching Mama videos ! :D I'm looking forward to future parts :D
this channel is a a recent find and I LOVE IT. you guys rock and I'm inspired.
Wow, that sounds so hard. What a worker! You had it so hard. It makes you think.
Another great and inspiring episode. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep on plugging the book, that's why you're here!
Wonderful and very very powerful!!
I”m going to see this whole inspiring story , what a beautiful family ❤️. God bless you all.
Thank you all once again. Love your story. Keep it up. tfs
And don't want the story to end
Very thankful for you. Thank you for all your freebies and it’s a joy to be able to bless you by buying from the store.
Be sure to check out Jill's book Penny Pinching Mama: 500 Ways I Lived on $500 a Month to learn all the tips she had to use to survive. www.livingonadime.com/store/penny-pinching-mama/
So many good thoughts. 😍
Thanks for sharing.I fine that subject in my own home.I spend all my money and my other half has many credit cards and I pay everything out of my check and have nothing left.Its not fair to me.Mgt 🌻😀
Great show, keep doing what you are doing!
I will try to by a few things to give as Christmas presents!
Once again great video!
You may want to put up a donation button? I've given to another site because of his good advice. Btw, I've bought many of your books and ebooks. Love them! Still thinking on the Patreon, too.
I just love you & admire you guys!! Love your honesty & advice!! Much love ❤️ from Kentucky!! 🙌🏻🐎🦋❤️🙏🏻
The most important things in life are not things.
nowadays we expect our children to always control their emotions (when eating out, shopping groceries etc.) when most adults just burst out for instance when driving a car...
I've been waiting for this video!!
love these stories!!! your tips and recipes have saved me sooooo much :) question about affiliate links. do you only get paid for the one thing you've linked to or if I follow the link to amazon and decide to buy something else will you get money for that ?
We get paid for anything you purchase at Amazon for 12 hours. Thanks for using our link!
No one should complain about you all promoting your products. That’s like going into a restaurant and telling the owner to stop trying to sell you desserts. Don’t buy them if you aren’t interested people! (Slamming the tabletop)
I always thought my life was hard but yours was a lot worse. So sorry you had to go through that.
I feel compelled to comment, I felt horrible after this segment, being widowed last year at 28, a year after having our daughter and starting college. I have considered bankruptcy. I don't want to do it but there are certain life circumstances that make you have no other choice and it makes one feel like a failure to have to do it, so being so harsh about "stealing money" really threw me off.
I'm very sorry for your loss. We aren't talking about people who legitimately have to claim bankruptcy. But if you are paying for your daughters college and not her when that money could go to pay the bills then in that case it would be stealing.
If you are doing everything you can to pay the bills, your daughter is responsible for her bills (college tuition, car bills etc. you can let her live at home) then of course that would be a situation where you legitimately can't pay them without your husband's income and I see nothing wrong with that.
Living On A Dime No I am in college my daughter is just turned 3
After hearing 10 episodes, a lot here is being said about patience toward a spouse, but in all sincerity, it sounds more like enabling going on. A person is not much helped being enabled.
You should not have to apologize for promoting your books on your own channel. It is just what you were talking about, people are selfish and feel intittled .
I bought to of your books
so sAD WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH JILL BUT YOUR SPIRIT OF FAITH SHINES THROUGH GOD SUSTAINED YOU THROUGH IT ALL I COULD CRY WHAT YOU WENT THRU YOU JILL AND KIDS BUT, GOD
Thank you Ruth. That is so kind and sweet of you and thank so much for praying for us too. Some may not understand how much Satan does not want us doing these things and to have someone praying for our protection means a lot not only your prayers but all of our viewers we really appreciate it.
AM PRAYING AND BELIEVING THAT GOD WILL BLESS YOU WHERE YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY NEEDS IT MOST WEATHER FINNANTIALLY OR PHYSICALLY OR EMOTIONALLY LIKE YOU SAID GOD,S ANGEL ARMIES ARE WATCHING US AND PROTECTING US AND DO GOD,S BIDDING WHEN WE SIMPLY BELIEVE AND TRUST GOD .
Jill my divorce and being a single Mom was an experience to say the least but not like yours... Lol. 🙏❤
how ridiculous! thus is you all business so don't listen to the negative people!
Not me....
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I think you have a good Christian story. Maybe you can make a movie of your life.
I love you all! But your generalization of "selfish people" is not accurate. I was married to a drug addict who was in and out of jail and rehab for most of the 7 years we were together. He refused to really work on our marriage. So when our daughter was 2 years old, I decided that the healthiest thing for my daughter and me was to leave the marriage. It was, to this day, the hardest decision I ever made. And my adult daughter now realizes this. I did a very selfish thing to save the life and sanity of 3 people.
Actually your wrong. That is not the type of situation we are talking about at all. That's not selfish that's taking care of you and your kids.