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 …
2023 House Projects To-Do List
I skipped doing a house and yard projects to-do list last year because I got swept up in flower farming planning and tasks, but some of these projects are now going on more than two years of being half-finished, so I figured that maybe posting about our to-do list will be the nudge we need …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Eye Exams + New Contacts
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 …
8 Clever, Not-Totally-Fluffy Romances
It’s funny how book tastes change over time. A decade ago, you would have NEVER found me reading anything that could be categorized as a “romance” — I thought the whole genre was predictable, stereotypical, and not at all worth my time. In fact, I even wrote a book round-up several years back that was …
Day in the Life – 6 February 2023
Every February for the past several years, I’ve done a traditional “Day in the Life” post just to show how much changes (and what doesn’t!) from year to year. In last year’s post, I was recently coming off not only a two-week-long COVID bout, but also a missed miscarriage and a subsequent D&C procedure. This …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Grocery Clearance + Decluttering
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 …