This week, I'm on a couple of podcasts for the very first time, so instead of a separate post today, I'd love for you to head on over to give them a listen. FIRE Drill Podcast FIRE Drill is one of the first podcasts I ever listened to, and it is one of my absolute…
April showers bring May flowers. So what do March showers bring? Right. More rain. I love the Pacific Northwest and I love all the greenery here, but this time of year I'm just ready for some warmer, drier days. Fingers crossed though that we are at least past the last of the freezing temperatures. I…
February marked three months of very closely tracking our day to day spending. I fell off the wagon a bit the second half of December but hopped back on with daily logging in January. So far, we haven't quite hit the same low monthly spending as November, but it's been close. We ate through our…
Sometimes the words just flow when I write blog posts. Today is not that day. I started these Friday Frugal Five posts pretty early on in this blog as a way to get inspired when I didn't feel like writing or that I didn't have anything to say, so I guess it's serving its purpose…
We just got back from another long weekend of truck camping out on the Olympic Peninsula as an extension of our son’s birthday celebrations. Instead of lots of stuff, we go on lots of mini adventures instead. Since we set the truck up with the canopy and air mattress back in September, we’ve been out…
We spent what felt like a lot of money this month. I have to admit, I put off adding up our expenses in January because I just knew we hadn’t done as well as I would have hoped when I set our big financial goal for this year. After all, we decided to go out of…
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you had a wonderful week. This weekend we will be celebrating my son‘s third birthday with homemade pizza and cupcakes, per his request. So of course we had to test out the pizza dough recipe this week to make sure it was good enough for his party 😉 1. We…
We’re now solidly into January and another month of tracking our spending to the penny. Thanks to the awesome long weekend we had to celebrate my husband‘s birthday and our monthly Costco trip yesterday, we are just over halfway as far as expected spending for the month, so we are going to have to be…
It was my husband’s turn to ring in his 30s over the weekend, and so we decided to head out of town to celebrate. While it may seem a little counter intuitive to be spending money on a weekend away while participating in the Frugalwoods Uber Frugal Month and just after announcing our big 2018…
When we started looking for a place to buy our Christmas tree this year, we decided to go to an actual tree farm instead walking to the lot down the street from our house. Our son is old enough now to really start enjoying our mini adventures as well as picking out a specific tree,…