I guess each Sunday I’ll do a post about how the week went staying within budget and working on the house and hopefully most weeks adding to savings.
The biggest hair pulling moments were when I left the house twice with dollar amounts I thought I’d be spending and spent twice as much as expected. The [...]

Will hopefully mean really great results later. I have, in the past, fallen into the trap of getting too comfortable. Spending money on what I want now instead of waiting until I could afford it or just realizing I didn’t need it at all and going without. That’s what helped me obtain over $12K in [...]

Is it possible to like nice things and appreciate aesthetics but also not be picky? Well, for me it is. I am very laid back and go with the flow. And that helped tonight when I went out to buy paint for the bedroom that is almost done (yay!). I wanted blue walls and chocolate [...]

The hugest endeavor that I’ve ever agreed to in my life was buying a crapshack and fixing it up for our family. Hubby has done almost 100% of the work himself. It’s been time consuming, money consuming, draining, stressful, but also very fun. Because I never would’ve realized how exciting it is to have a [...]

One of my biggest issues with being frugal and saving money and making sure to set myself up well for the future - retirement, weddings, college educations, etc… - is that I worry that I am not allowing myself or my family to truly enjoy today. Now, I understand that one doesn’t have to spend [...]