The month of May was a busy one for us. We returned from our Arizona trip the last day of April and went back to work May 1st, and then spent the following weekend at Fred Meyer and Home Depot and at home setting up my two newest raised beds for Mother's Day. At the…
April was a good solid month for us, with a nice balance of travel out of town and hanging out around home. The weather has finally warmed up enough that I've gotten to spend a decent amount of time in the garden, more time on the trails behind our house, and it's now light enough…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
A year and a half ago, I had no budget. And I don't mean an anti-budget, where I artificially restricted our access to funds by diverting them to our savings account and "paid ourselves first." I mean that we simply lived by the method of "spend less than you earn." Of course, that meant some…
I adore three paycheck months. While I realize that our overall income doesn't change whether we get paid twice a month or every other week, I do prefer it this way because it feels awesome to have a big "bonus" month two times a year, and it's a big mental boost to be sure. Money…
We are now just about a quarter of a way through the year, and I realized the other day that I only had a vague sense of the goals I had set for myself for the year. While I knew some were on track, I knew I needed to go through the list again to…
Somehow, as of March 1st, it has been a full two years since I began my clothes buying ban. Two years without purchasing a single item of clothing, shoes, jewelry, or accessories. When I first embarked on this journey early in 2017, I expected that I would coast into that first year of no purchase…
I have to say, I certainly started off 2018 on a better foot in terms of total savings rate. Then again, we also didn't take my grandmother to Hawaii at the start of 2018. The good news is, March is a three paycheck month and it should go a long way to balancing things out,…
Again, I think this is one of those months where I am way too hard on myself. After missing out on my 2018 savings goal by a few percentage points, I went into 2019 with a renewed focus to hit that full fifty percent savings rate this year. Of course, January was also the month…
Last year, I had my goals in place and written out by January 1st. This year has been different though, and I just haven't felt up to the task. The biggest reason for this has been the life changing cancer diagnosis a personal finance blogger and friend is going through with her son who is…