Financial – The Transformed Wife

Ways to Make Money Without a College Degree

June 20, 2025 Lori Alexander

College is incredibly expensive these days which puts the students or their parents into deep debt. Sadly, even Christian colleges are corrupt since our culture is incredibly corrupt. It’s not a good nor wise place to send daughters. What are they supposed to do in the meantime before marriage? I asked the women in my Facebook group, and they gave me many great ideas! Childcare/daycare in the home Nutritional Therapist (takes some online courses) and open a wholesale account with…

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Financial Wisdom Concerning the Government Stimulus Check

April 15, 2020 Lori Alexander Comments 25 comments

Repost from a Dave Ramsey financial group which is beneficial to people who aren’t thinking properly GOVERNMENT STIMULUS CHECK INFORMATION 1. To Tenants: If the government says you don’t have to pay your rent and there’s a ban on evictions, you better do whatever you can to pay your rent. There will be major repercussions when eviction bans are lifted. Don’t think you’ll get a free ride out of this. PAY YOUR RENT! Your landlord has bills to pay too….

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Fifty Ways We Paid Off Our House With One Income

March 17, 2020 Lori Alexander Comments 20 comments

Laine was one of my first mentors. I savored her letters and loved reading her wisdom. Her husband never made over $29,000 with six people in her home, yet she was able to pay off her Southern California home debt with many frugal practices and her motto, “Pray and pay, pray and pay.” She stayed home full-time and depended upon her husband’s income and God’s provision. She knows that God doesn’t speak highly of debt and did everything she could…

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She Stretches Her Husband’s Hard Earned Income

March 16, 2020 Lori Alexander Comments 25 comments

She is an amazing woman who made an incredibly long comment on my post Making It On One Income. (You might want to go read it along with all the other wonderful comments!) She does everything she can to live within her husband’s income even if it means sacrificing some of the pleasures in life. Most women today simply put things on their credit card, thus digging their family deeper and deeper into debt. This is NOT a good way…

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Freedom to Be Home by Being Debt Free and Living Frugally

February 28, 2019 Lori Alexander Comments 14 comments

Many couples are in bondage to debt due to college, credit card, and home loans. Most are told that a couple needs two incomes to survive, therefore, a mother can’t possible be a keeper at home and have a large family. Here are two women who have proved otherwise! The first one is by Amy Dacyczyn who wrote the book The Tightwad Gazette which I highly recommend and the second one is by Tamara Linkowsky. “The change occurred when I got…

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Learning Frugality Takes Practice

November 21, 2018 Lori Alexander Comments 26 comments

Whenever I write about women being keepers at home, I undoubtedly get a comment that this is no longer possible. Families NEED two incomes to survive, they proclaim. No, but it may take a lot of sacrifice and hard work to be able to make it on one income. One young woman asked the women in the chat room this question: “How do you ladies who are stay at home wives/moms make it work with one income?” Many women responded…

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Wifely Extravagance Destroys Homes

January 3, 2018 Lori Alexander Comments 14 comments

“Wifely thriftlessness and extravagance have destroyed the happiness of many a household and wrecked many a home. On the other hand, many a man owes his prosperity to his wife’s prudence and her wise administration of household affairs.” (JR Miller) In pondering this statement, I thought about all of the women who are marrying their husbands with a boatload of debt due to their college education. They failed to ever consider what a burden this would place upon their future…

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Finding a Way to Come Home Full Time

December 15, 2017 Lori Alexander Comments 7 comments

Written by Genevieve Greenwood It’s funny how life works out sometimes. I had been in the work force since I was about 12. My first job was babysitting my little cousin full time. Later, fast food then management, then call centers and eventually banking. I had a decent job dealing with credit card identity and transactional fraud. My oldest child has autism, Tourette syndrome, and a host of other medical issues. I’ve always dealt with his medical needs personally, and it…

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Dogged Determination to Stay at Home

October 7, 2017 Lori Alexander Comments 15 comments

Written by a woman who wants to remain anonymous who was determined to stay home with her children. In order for me to stay home with my children, I grew a lot of my food and I taught myself to can it. I bought fabric at the thrift store and taught myself how to make my clothes and my children’s clothes. I hung my clothes on a clothesline to dry. We installed a wood stove in our fireplace and heated…

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New Laine’s Letter About Saving Money

July 5, 2017 Lori Alexander Comments 12 comments

Laine was one of the first women to teach me about godly womanhood through her writings called Laine’s Letters. Yesterday, Annabel from The Bluebirds are Nesting wrote me and told me that she had been in contact with Laine. Annabel lives in Australia and prices are rising so she wanted to know how Laine saved money in situations like this. Laine wrote her a new blog post so I asked if I could share it with all of you! Annabel wrote, “To introduce, first…

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