Today I hit 27 weeks and am officially in the third trimester of my very last pregnancy. I was randomly calculating numbers the other day (because that’s how my brain works), and I figured that by the end of this pregnancy and including all miscarriages, I will have spent about three and a half years …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Tulip Orders + Cheap Medicine
This is a new series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I’ll be posting weekly(ish) about what I’ve done lately to save money and make things stretch in order to further our financial goals, which currently include us paying off a decent hunk of debt. I encourage you to play …
Officially Hitting the Third Trimester…Come On, Nesting Urge! {March 2023 Goals}
Whew, February usually goes by pretty fast (ya know, short month and all), but this year I feel like it went by glacially slow. I blame the snow. The endless, endless snow. We haven’t seen our grass since November, and we also haven’t seen temperatures above about 40 degrees since November. Most of the time …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Bike Tuneups + Dental Cleanings
This is a new series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I’ll be posting weekly(ish) about what I’ve done lately to save money and make things stretch in order to further our financial goals, which currently include us paying off a decent hunk of debt. I encourage you to play …
Budgeting Magic: Planning Yearly One-Off Expenses
I’ve always considered myself to be pretty decent with handling my money, but I would also admit pretty readily that in the past, I was a bit lazy about it. Sure, I’d made a loose budget of some sort or other most months since my husband and I first got married nearly 12 years ago, …
Grocery Spending Report: February 2023
This new monthly series is by reader request, and it lays out all our grocery expenses each month (including how much we spent in each broader category, such as dairy or produce). We are a family of five (with one on the way) living in Central Utah, and our kids’ ages range from 7 down …
101 in 1001 List #2 {Second to Last Update}
At the beginning of 2018, I decided to vastly change how I approached goal-setting, and instead of setting my usual New Year’s resolutions, I decided to hop on the bandwagon of doing 101 goals in 1001 days (which is just under 3 years). After completing over 60% of my first list (you can see the …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Valentine’s Day Hacking + Tax Returns
This is a new series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I’ll be posting weekly(ish) about what I’ve done lately to save money and make things stretch in order to further our financial goals, which currently include us paying off a decent hunk of debt. I encourage you to play …