A frugal girl seeking ways to simplify life, pay off debt, and save money.
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I just got back from spending a few days with one of my best friends who just had a baby - hence the lack of posts this week. This is baby number 2 for my friend and her husband, and I knew that they could use some help. I wasn’t able to do much for the [...]
At the end of July, we decided to start tracking our expenses. August was our first full month, and we find that tracking feels pretty easy now - we don’t have to remind ourselves to keep receipts and enter them in the computer, we just do it out of habit. Sort of like flossing I [...]
Yesterday we went hiking with my brother and sister. It was a belated birthday celebration for me (I turned 29 a couple weeks ago), but this was the only weekend we could all get together. We hiked one of my all-time favorite trails, in the mountains west of the town where my brother and sister live. [...]
My husband’s other cousin is getting married next month. He has two cousins that he’s close to, and one got married in July, so it’s a busy wedding year for us (must be even more so for his aunt, with both her sons getting married within three months!). Anyway, we spent quite a bit of [...]
Yesterday we went to a Labor Day bbq at the home of a friend of a friend. We only knew a couple people there, so we got to meet lots of new people. The party was at a house in an old neighborhood downtown - full of houses built in the 1920’s with character and [...]
The Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Advanced Personal Finance.  KMC did a great job - there are a ton of posts, and most of them have commentary - nicely done!
 I liked the post by One Frugal Girl about home organization - I’m always looking for more ways to cut back on the amount of stuff we have [...]
I’ve been thinking about credit scores today. Don’t know why this got stuck in my head, but it did. Starting in about 2004 (at the height of our debt) I began reading just about every personal finance book we have in our library. I couldn’t get enough. On many subjects, most of the authors would [...]
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