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10 Memoirs About Establishing, Renovating, and/or Moving to a New Home

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed distinctive trends in the types of books I gravitate towards, especially during certain seasons of life. Considering that we’ve moved pretty much every 3 years since we’ve been married, perhaps it should come as no surprise that one niche I’ve read a lot of is memoirs that fall …

home piano lesson
Frugality, Weekly Frugal Wins

Weekly Frugal Wins // Piano Lessons at Home

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 …

Frugality, Grocery Spending Report

Grocery Spending Report: January 2023

Back when I was talking about how 2023 was probably going to be “The Year of Frugality” for us, I had several readers who were interested in me posting our grocery spending report each month, especially because by most counts, it’s pretty low. For some background, we’re a family of five consisting of two adults …

Frugality, Weekly Frugal Wins

Weekly Frugal Wins // Frugal Vacations, Soap, and Duvets

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 …

Products and Books I'm Enjoying in March 2023
Book Recommendations, Loving and Learning Lately

Loving and Learning Lately {47}

Welcome to Round 47 of this little series I started of all the things in life I’m loving and learning lately! Here you’ll find everything from the books I’m currently reading to the products I’m loving to the shows I’m watching (which, spoiler alert–won’t be very many or very exciting, since I’m not a huge …