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From the monthly archives:
Left: His first photo at the shelter, 8 weeks old. Right: Enjoying our anniversary camping trip last month. I can’t believe how quickly time flies. We made the decision to adopt a pet right after we moved to a new place. We were just beginning to live frugally out of necessity, but we managed to [...]
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This is the beginning of our second weekend living on a limited cash budget. I’m amazed at how smoothly things are going so far, and how inspired we’ve been at entertaining ourselves. Weekends have always been the cause of most of our money hemorrhages. The temporary “vacation” mindset of the weekend would lead us to [...]
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Photo by lonebluelady We’re only in the second week of our no spend summer, and we’ve already hit some challenges and setbacks. Even though we know it’s worth it, limiting our spending has been really tough. It’s a challenge to keep ourselves from feeling deprived and losing motivation. There are some things that I associate [...]
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Every frugal family has a unique reason for choosing this lifestyle. For some people, it’s a job loss. For others, it’s the birth of a child or the desire to be a stay-at-home parent. For us, it was a gradual change, but I do still remember the day I made the conscious decision to live [...]
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If you’re following my progress through my progress meters in the sidebar, you may have noticed some changes over the weekend. Our emergency fund is now over 75% complete! Woo hoo! We’re getting so close! Our Europe fund doesn’t appear to have changed, but it did. I increased our savings goal for Europe to $10,000 [...]
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Just a couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about making money online. I said PineCone Research is the most reliable online survey site I’ve used. At the time I said the only way to sign up was to find their banner ad while surfing online. Well, now I’m able to offer you the opportunity [...]
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Week one of our no spend summer is almost over, and it’s been a success! We’re ending the week with $18 left, and we haven’t used our debit cards once. The success of our first week is definitely motivating. Hopefully we’ll be able to keep this motivation going. We’re planning on taking it easy this [...]
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