I’ve been home all week with my son thanks to the holiday break. His preschool was closed anyway, so I’m thankful I have the week off as well (my husband doesn’t). I don’t know what we would do if we both had to work while preschool was closed. Being a two income family is mostly…
“We’re doing so much better than pretty much everyone else our age that we know.” “We don’t ever pay credit card interest.” “We don’t have any expensive hobbies.” “We like good food and we’re okay with spending more on that.” “We’re already naturally frugal.” “I don’t have time to track things so closely.” I’ve had…
Our refrigerator got fried a couple years ago when the power came back on after an outage. *Luckily* it was right around the holidays so a lot of stores were having Black Friday sales on appliances. Instead of replacing our standard side by side fridge/freezer with another one just like it, we ended up buying…
I've been making an effort lately to cut down our grocery store visits, partially out of a desire not to leave the house again once I've gotten home for the day but also to get our grocery bill under control. We've had some pretty nasty air quality lately due to the bad forest fires all…
We bought a quarter cow recently, which means our freezer is filled to bursting with grass fed (grain finished) beef from a local farm, and we are working on finding new and different ways to use the meat. On weeknights especially, this means something quick and easy, that can be made with basic ingredients that…
Back in March, we wanted to spend a few days away, so I spent some time looking on AirBNB* for a different place to stay than we normally do. I knew we wanted to go up to the islands, but I didn’t want to be in one of the (few) hotels and instead have a…