Practical Ways to Improve Your Home, Life, & Budget
Update: I wrote this post about our first house a few years ago and it has been a popular post ever since! It’s got a few updates for you. I still gaze lovingly at the “after” pictures of that kitchen. I loved it so much! When we bought our house, it needed some work a […]
Sinking funds have been a vital part of our budget almost since the beginning. The day we received a once-a-year bill and had to scramble to get the money together to pay it, I decided that we’d be much better off saving all year round for such an expense. We currently have 12 sinking funds […]
So you want to be more frugal, eh? Awesome! You are in the right place, my friend. We’ll go through how to get started living more frugally, including what to expect from yourself, where to start, and how you can still have plenty of fun. Frugal living is not a prison sentence. It’s a way […]
Y’all. Big things have happened in our debt free journey! We started working toward this goal in January. Back then, it was literally an impossible goal. The numbers did not add up in any way, shape, or form. With a promotion for Austin and my blogging income much higher than expected, the impossible started to […]
Have you ever experienced frugal burnout? Maybe you didn’t have a name for it, but after trying to stick to a budget or save money for a while, you just got totally sick of being frugal. I’ve been there! I want to talk about two sides of dealing with frugal burnout: How to avoiding getting […]
Being frugal is often about 1,000 little things instead of 1 or 2 big things. Obviously, big decisions have big money consequences: spending too much on a house or buying a car you can’t afford have big money implications. But assuming you’re making good big decisions when they come around, let’s look at making good […]
For most of the eight years Austin and I have been married, we have had to live on one income. Even now, with Austin working full time and my blog giving me a full time income (most months), we actually only use one income to budget off of month to month. It certainly hasn’t always […]
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I made a humongous list of ways to save money. But alas, hardly anyone ever saw it and it got buried deep in this here website. Well, I’ve unearthed this treasure, made it so you don’t have to submit your email address to access it, […]
Our completely impossible goal is starting to look possible! We set a goal to pay off all of our debt by the end of this year: $15,732, which includes our car and the new roof we had to put on our house. Based on our incomes and what I knew we could throw at the […]
Whether you’re saving money for a special vacation, need to pay for expensive car repairs, or are facing a job loss, you’ll probably end up trying to find expenses to cut from your budget. It can be hard to know where to start. There are some areas where you can cut an expense out completely. […]
