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From the monthly archives:
I’m pretty proud of our financial success in the past few months. My husband and I have improved our financial health immensely since our wedding. Unfortunately, the same isn’t true for my physical health. I’ve been avoiding the scale for the past month. I didn’t want to confirm what I already knew. Last night, I [...]
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(Photo by gwpriester.) I love to start my morning with a hot cup of fresh ground coffee. Any more than one cup gives me the jitters for the rest of the morning, but one cup is just enough to wake me up. Brewing coffee at home instead of stopping at Starbucks every morning is half [...]
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Tony and I are homebodies for the most part. The good news is staying home doesn’t cost much. The bad news? It can make things pretty ho-hum. We’ve been spending too many weekends working around the house and running errands. It’s absolutely beautiful outside tonight, so we’re heading downtown for a stroll. But first, a [...]
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As part of the Extended Group Writing Project at the Personal Finance Bloggers Network, I’m sharing the story of my biggest financial mistake: my student loan debt. I was in the same position as many high school graduates. I knew I needed to go to college if I ever wanted a chance at a successful [...]
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The do-it-yourself philosophy of wedding planning has been around as long as the budget wedding (forever). As I said in the last post about wedding flowers, many people even choose to do their own floral arrangements. We were very conventional in the aspects that we chose to do ourselves. Even taking on only the simple [...]
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Yesterday, Kelly at Almost Frugal Food wrote a post about heating and reheating food without a microwave. Like Kelly, I don’t have a microwave, and I don’t want one. So I thought I’d throw in my two cents and tips on the topic. Cutting the microwave out of your life is a great way to [...]
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This morning, Wise Bread shared a link to Credit Karma, a new site that offers free credit scores as often as you want. Unlike other services like FreeCreditReport.com, you don’t need to enroll in a service that later requires you to spend 20 minutes on the phone repeatedly telling an operator, “No, thank you. I’m [...]
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About a month ago, my husband and I both went to the dentist for routine exams and cleanings. Because we’d been uninsured for a year, it was our first visit in about that long. It was also our first visit to a new dentist, so they did a full round of x-rays in addition to [...]
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