Jul 24, 2025 by admin

It’s Day 10 of the $100 Savings Challenge and I don’t have much to report today as far as savings. BUT, I have a fun story about a $1 date from this morning that I’ll share below!

We got home from our Atlanta trip last night. Kierstyn had gymnastics this morning but she was really struggling to get up and around and was in a funk (I think being gone for a week was just hard on her and she felt out of sorts.)

As we left for gymnastics, I could tell she just wasn’t in the best headspace. I was trying to figure out what to do while we were driving and I felt prompted by the Holy Spirit to have a date with her instead of taking her to gymnastics. And then, out of nowhere, we hit bumper-to-bumper traffic — something you basically never have at that time of day in that area. Because of it, we were going to be late to gymnastics.

So I looked in the backseat and asked Kierstyn: “Would you like to go out to breakfast with me?” Her eyes lit up and she was SO excited.

She asked if we could go to Wendy’s. I said yes, if they were open for breakfast!

Not only were they open, but they have $1 breakfast sandwiches. Did you know that?? She was absolutely thrilled and it turned her whole day around.

We sat and talked in the restaurant and then we went out to the car and sat and did our makeup together (she is so much like Kaitlynn in this regard and loves playing with my makeup — and she’s actually quite good at putting it on!)

When we came home, she excitedly told Jesse about our date. For $1 (and some gas money), we made a special memory and she felt so loved. And we’ll make up the gymnastics class later! Today, spending time together was what was most important!

Speaking of saving money, I shared this tip on Instagram today. Have you used ChatGPT to menu plan? It works surprisingly well. If you don’t like the ideas it gives you, just ask for more ideas or give it more information and let it try again!

And Betsy Bakes Breads shared this comment above on my post that I loved!

By the way, someone messaged in the following tip last night referring to yesterday’s post. This is definitely something worth looking into!

And now, onto the $100 Savings Challenge! If you haven’t signed up for the $100 Savings Challenge, be sure follow the directions to sign up (there are prizes!!):

How To Participate in the $100 Savings Challenge

1. Go sign up for the $100 Savings Challenge to get your free 14-day plan.
2. Every week day of the challenge, I’ll be posting on Instagram, Facebook, and here on the blog as I work through the challenge myself.
3. I will invite you to do the daily challenges with me and to share your successes! Every day that you complete the challenge and submit it, you’ll be entered to win one of 5 $100 Amazon gift cards we’re giving away randomly at the end.
4. You can participate every day or just some of the days — whatever works for you! But every day that you participate and fill out the simple form, you are entered to win!

Day 10 Challenge:

Check Venmo and PayPal: Check your Venmo or PayPal accounts for forgotten funds that you haven’t transferred over to your bank account. (Found money: $5–$10)

I have zero to report for today since I don’t have a Venmo account (I know, apparently I still live in the dark ages!) and we only have a Paypal account for our business.

Hopefully I will have better things to report tomorrow!

So, with that added to my total, we are at $95.25 found/saved so far with the challenge. We are in the home-stretch and we are almost to $100! I didn’t know if I was going to make it, so I’m THRILLED that I think I’m going to hit $100!!

How much have you saved/found so far as part of the challenge?

Enter to Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card (we’re giving 5 away!)

Go sign up for the challenge here! And just for fun — and to motivate you to join us for the challenge — if you do today’s challenge and fill out the form linked here, you will be entered to win one of 5 $100 Amazon gift cards I’m giving away at the end of the challenge!

Note: We may possibly share a few of the best entries over the course of the challenge, so by submitting the form, you are giving us permission to possibly post your entry. If you’d rather we don’t post it, please note that on your entry.

Did you participate today? I’d love to hear how today went for you!