Running any household is the nearly the same strategy as running a small business, you have incomings and outgoings, get it right and it can be successful, save were you can save, because there's always comes a time when a problem arises were you have no choice but to through money at that problem to solve it, or fix it.
So many people fall down because they don't have the knowledge of basic home economics,, when you have it look after it.