About
The Budge Report is the belt-tightening, money-saving guide to surviving the recession, deflation, and whatever else is going to happen. We include money-saving tips, links to relevant sites and articles that can help you create a budget, save (and accumulate!) money,and shop wisely.
We are a family who has lived through the boom of the dot-com bubble and the bust of its aftermath. We’ve created jobs and lost jobs. We’ve had full-time jobs, part-time jobs, consulting, crafting and jewelry making, contract work, worked from our home office, slaved in the world of retail, had our own company with employees, and gone on unemployment. We’ve also been full-time and part-time students and lived in an apartment.
Like many other people, we have a mortgage, kids, pets, and hobbies. We’ve saved money for years only to see thousands of dollars lost in value due to stock market crashes and shenanigans. Since then, we’ve taught ourselves how to read between the lines of annual reports and financial news releases.
Having grown up with parents who lived through the Great Depression, we learned all their savings and budgeting tips, but we also learned how to temper those with the reality of life in the present day. So although we know you can save money by making your own candles from used crayons, we’re not going to be filling this site with that kind of information. But we are going to help people learn important skills such as Tactical Shopping™.
