This is a series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I post weekly 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 along and …
Our Family Christmas Card 2023
A very merry Christmas to you from the Meidells! What a year! I stopped trying to predict what would happen in any given year a long time ago, but WOW, was 2023 a year to remember for our family! Pretty much every member of our family had a huge milestone; we completed our family with …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Nose Suckers + Small Town Musings
This is a series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I post weekly 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 along and …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
This is a series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I post weekly 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 along and …
How Our Financial Goals Have Changed This Year
Back in January, I shared our financial goals for the year, just as I have done for the past few years. Perhaps some of you detail-oriented readers noticed that after my first quarterly report, I stopped posting progress reports for 2023. There were three main reasons for this. First, our lives were turned upside down …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Way Too Many Medical Appointments
This is a series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I post weekly 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 along and …
Wrapping Up a Life-Changing Year {December 2023 Goals}
Wow, November went by fast! So many good things…Thanksgiving (complete with plenty of card games for all!), our new full-time business plan for the flower farm going even better than we’d hoped, lots of fall prep work like putting in tulip and daffodil bulbs, time out in the sunshine as a family… This year has …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Rollerblading Accidents + Clogged Heating Ducts
This is a series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I post weekly 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 along and …