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Simplicity

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Luxury vs. necessity: Are Americans confused?

by Karen on August 23, 2010

Over the weekend, I found this interesting study from Pew Research on a blog I read. Survey respondents were asked to rate how necessary different household devices are to their lives and whether or not they consider them to be luxuries. Respondents answered the question “Do you pretty much think of this as a necessity [...]

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Baby “stuff” sure does add up

by Karen on July 26, 2010

This weekend, Tony and I started the arduous process of baby shopping. Our families are kindly planning a couple of baby showers, which means we should have a little help when it comes to acquiring what we’ll need, but I was still hoping to keep things to a minimum. We are living in an apartment, [...]

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Assembling a home from scratch

by Karen on July 21, 2010

Last weekend, Tony and I finally moved into an apartment in the city where he’ll be teaching this fall (and hopefully spring). We were very lucky to have lots of help from both of our families. We’ve only been married for a little over two years now, but in that time we’ve built a frugal [...]

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Apartment hunting simplified

by Karen on July 7, 2010

There is nothing I hate more than the instability of moving, and I especially hate the long, arduous process of finding a new place to live. I’m not usually a procrastinator when it comes to this sort of thing. But we’d just moved, spent two weeks in Europe, and I was struggling with morning sickness [...]

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Preparing for baby

by Karen on June 10, 2010

Disclaimer: I plan to be pretty open about baby stuff here. If you’re not into the baby thing, please feel free to skip these posts. I’m trying to keep baby posts down to one a week since I know I have readers who don’t have children. I realize that with posting so light lately, it [...]

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iPhone apps that make my life easier

by Karen on April 14, 2010

My friend Kacie is thinking about getting a smart phone. She’s been asking me lots of questions about my iPhone, and she requested that I share some of my favorite apps here. Okay! As someone who doesn’t talk on the phone a lot, I use it more for browsing the Internet and applications than I [...]

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