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Dave Ramsey Envelopes

A little over a year ago, I went through Financial Peace University at our church.  One of the main things that this program teaches is to change over your household to a cash-only system.  Out with the credit cards.  In with cold hard cash.  :)  This was quite the opposite of how I had been running my household, but wanting to give the cash-only system a chance, I jumped on board.  I started by using the envelopes that our kit provided.  They got the job done, but they weren't very pretty.  Then, a friend of mine sent me a link to this fabulous website where a creative young lady came up with a way to make the cash-only system a little easier on the eye.  I fell in love with her creations and have been making my own versions of cute Dave Ramsey envelopes ever since.  I got bored with the first set that I made for myself and decided I'd update them a little bit.  I found this ADORABLE paper at Archiver's and got to work.  Here are some pictures of just a few of the envelopes that I made over the weekend.  So fun!  :)


 







I used to carry 9 different envelopes around with me everywhere I went.  Now, I've decided to only carry around the 3 that I use most frequently and keep the rest in a safe place and throw them in my purse when I know I'll need them.  I'm so excited to go shopping now so I can use my cute new envelopes...perhaps a trip to the mall is in order!?  ;)

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