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General

How To Host A Community Event Without Spending A Lot Of Money

Today a friend and I are going to host a community event to reach out to our local community. Neither one of us wanted to spend a lot of our own money, so we decided to keep things simple, as well as to ask our community for help.

Here’s what we did:

Our community outreach is to connect with the people in our community that were originally from another country. Our little community has approximately 22 different nationalities represented, so we decided to celebrate this by hosting a potluck in the local park. We asked everyone to bring a dish from their heritage that they’d like to share with everyone. By doing this as a potluck rather than say, as a barbecue, the costs of food were much lower and our responsibility to provide food for everyone was greatly reduced. Now we just had to fill in the gaps and anticipate needs.

July 12, 2014

General

Join A Money Club

If you want to make some serious financial changes in your life but you are finding it difficult to stay on track, you may want to join or start up a money club. Money clubs consisting of 6 or 7 people is ideal. It gives everyone a chance to share their own money experiences and provide tips to the group for what’s working for them.

By joining a team of people who are open to sharing their own financial experiences, you will be made to feel accountable to achieving your own financial goals and it will help you to stick to your budget even during tough times.

February 23, 2011

Outdoors

Join A Community Garden

Spring has sprung and it’s time to start thinking about gardening again. Gardening is a great way to supply your family with fresh veggies and herbs and it can save you some money on your grocery bill. Gardening is also a kind of therapy, a chance to get outside and commune with nature. A little dose of fresh air and exercise is good for the soul.

If you don’t have a yard of your own in order to plant a garden, why not take advantage of a community garden? If you don’t know if there’s one in your local area, perform a simple Google search and see what comes up. You will likely be surprised how many opportunities there are close to home. And if you don’t find any information, perhaps you can partner with your neighbors and start one.

A good friend of mine first introduced me to the idea of joining a community garden. She lives in a condo but she enjoys gardening and didn’t want to be left out just because she didn’t have her own backyard. She became part of her local community garden and found it to be a positive experience.

Community gardens are a great way to connect with your local community and they make gardening accessible to those living in condos and apartments. I have never been part of one myself because we have a postage stamp sized yard and I have converted all but one of my flowerbeds into gardens, but if I were to live in an apartment again, I would definitely consider joining one.

Have you ever been part of a community garden?

April 16, 2010