As I've mentioned any number of times, my family lives in a smaller "starter" home. While it was the typical size of a single family home back in the 1960s when it was built, it's considerably smaller than the typical home built in the last few decades by at least half. Especially now, with so…
I haven't felt much like writing and almost skipped today's post, but ultimately I decided that I want a diary of these strange times. Four weeks ago, I startejd working from home. At that point, things felt completely surreal and like I was probably overreacting by pulling the kiddo from preschool. A month later, it…
Since life is still not normal, I haven't been able to get myself to write a normal Wednesday post. Instead, I want this to be one that is helpful to all of you. Last week, it was a roundup of many of the posts written by women about COVID-19 and the impending recession. This week,…
Going through our February expenses was a serious trip back in time. I really, really didn't have my heart into while reviewing credit card statements this month, because February feels so long ago. Even earlier in March feels like long ago. One thing I'll say for this global pandemic thing - weeks and months feel…
It's hard to believe it's been three weeks since I've started working from home thanks to the Coronavirus outbreak in our city. We are now at over 1,000 confirmed cases and over 50 deaths in our state alone. If you aren't taking this seriously yet, it's time to do so. I had to actually check…
Since life isn't normal right now, I've decided this week's Roundup won't be normal either. Instead of picking three of my favorite posts this week, I've decided to share all of the blog posts right now written by women in the personal finance space. These are in order of publication date. I hope they are helpful…
A couple weeks ago, I began reaching out to friends to ask about the status of their food and supplies at home - if they had the minimum two weeks as recommended as a standard rule of thumb for emergency preparedness. For the most part, I got lightly brushed off and business continued as usual,…
When I wrote last week's Frugal Five, I was at the end of my first week working from home (with the kiddo home as well). Even just one week ago, the Coronavirus didn't quite seem like it could possibly get so bad. It felt like I was perhaps overreacting when I didn't send the kiddo…
Wonderful readers, it’s Moriah from Our Table for Two here to guest curate this week’s edition of Women’s Person Finance Wednesdays. Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays is one of my favorite spaces on the Internet. From the start, Angela has done such an amazing job curating great content and making sure that newer voices are heard.…
Ever since That Frugal Pharmacist wrote a guest post here on the blog about her family's experience with what we then coined as PrepperFI, I had meant to write my own. PrepperFI, as we've defined it, is the crossover of financial independence/retire early (FIRE) and emergency preparedness. With the current situation of COVID-19 here in…