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…
Once, when our son was a newborn, a couple of our neighbors mowed our lawn when they noticed it had gotten quite long. I was home with our son during the day, but my husband was back to work and regularly gone 12+ hours a day, so cutting the grass just wasn't high on our…
When I first started writing this blog, there were a few other bloggers who I connected with right away because it was obvious that we shared a lot of the same values: financial independence, of course, but also looking at that and everything else through a lens of sustainability first and foremost. Kristine at Frugasaurus,…
The natural gas explosion I mentioned last week ended up being a much smaller deal than the headlines first made it sound, and everything is back to normal as far as garbage service and home natural gas usage. Whenever some acute situation requires changes to daily lives, be it a break in the natural gas…
When I first embarked on this clothes buying ban eighteen months ago, I couldn't have imagined I would have continued it on past the original year goal I'd set for myself; it seemed overly ambitious, but I wanted to challenge myself to do it regardless. My closet was bursting at the seams, I was attempting…
Quite obviously, I am personally not vegan. My husband and my extended family hunt and fish and I grew up crabbing even though I don't eat much in the way of seafood. We share in the purchase of a half or quarter cow every summer. We talk about some day adding chickens and honey bees…
While it's no secret that we love packing our bags and heading out of town to explore - be it for one night or two weeks - we also make sure to explore our local area during the days we are at home. Part of the draw of the Pacific Northwest for us, outside of…
May was a very different month for us financially because we spent the second half of it on vacation on the East Coast. Thanks to some travel hacking, we didn't have to pay for the plane flights as well as a couple of hotel nights, but we were gone for a full two weeks, which…
April was a crazy busy month. Mostly in a good way, but still extremely busy. I started my public service board commission for our city, sent some good friends off on a move to Hawaii, wrapped up a work project and began a new one, and we went out of town three separate weekends because I…
Last month, I accepted a four year volunteer term for one of my City's commissions, which means that I now have an evening commitment twice a month, as well as a lot of reading and studying to do before each meeting. While I've been working on simplifying my life and generally reducing my regular commitments,…