I post our weekly meal plan on Instagram each week (follow me here), which almost always leads to one question: What is your baked oatmeal recipe? Throughout the fall and winter, we have been having baked oatmeal for breakfast every single day and I could not love it more! Not only is it delicious, filling, […]
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4 Ways to Learn How to Make Money from Home (even if you have no experience)
So you want to make money from home but you don’t feel like you have any skills or qualifications to make it happen? I get it. 100%. I was you. First, I am willing to bet that you actually have plenty of profitable skills that you don’t even realize or know how to capitalize on. […]
Budget Grocery List: $50 a Week for Two Adults
Is it possible for two adults to eat for $50 per week? Maybe you’re in the middle of paying off debt and are looking for ways to cut your food budget. Or maybe you’re saving for vacation and want to lower your expenses for a couple of weeks so that you can save even more. […]
2018 Blog Income Report: Full-Time Income!
My blog changed a lot for our family in 2018. I made more blogging last year than I ever did working full time in an office, which is crazy-cool. Plus, because of my income, we were able to pay off $19,000 in debt in one year (everything but our mortgage)! I want to share my […]
How to Be More Productive with Time Blocking
One glance at my time blocking schedule just told me that I have about 30 minutes to finish outlining and writing intros for the four blog posts I’m working on this week. Then I’ll use the next 30 minutes to get ready for the day, eat a snack, and make the bed. After that, Mozzie […]
3 Ways to Get Help with Meal Planning
Meal planning is the #1 strategy that helps us save money on food. For sure. While I’ve been able to develop my own simple meal planning system over the years, I realize that not everyone wants to do it all themselves. So let’s talk about three ways to get help with meal planning and then […]
19 Ways to Simplify Your Life in 2019
You want to simplify your life this year, right? Who doesn’t! But what’s the point of simplifying things? Well, if you noticed, this blog is called The (mostly) Simple Life, and I love helping people simplify. But what is that (mostly) all about? The (mostly) of The (mostly) Simple Life is all about the parts […]
5 Ways to Improve Your Financial Situation in 2019
I love the feeling of a fresh year! It’s a great time to set some goals and make some changes. And I always always set financial goals. The first year of our marriage, our total income was less than $14,000. We were broke. broke. broke. We ate because of food stamps and lived in the […]
The One Thing You’re Forgetting To Do When You Declutter
We’ve been cleaning out our basement and storage room to make space for family coming to stay with us (nothing motivates you like a deadline, right?). Honestly, I love it. I love organizing our stuff and even better, finding things to get rid of! Every time we give away or sell things we don’t need, […]
5 Goal Setting Mistakes to Avoid
I’m over reading about how to set S.M.A.R.T. goals. That’s right, I said it! There’s definitely some good goal setting thoughts inside of the smart goals acronym, though I’m not 100% on board with all of it. But I feel like you can’t read a single thing about goal setting right now without running into […]
