travel

Gasoline In The US: It’s Cheap!

July 6, 2011

As gas prices inch closer to $4/gallon, I hear lots of people complaining about the cost of filling up a tank.  But scroll down through this infographic to the bottom, and look at the cost to fill a tank in the UK: 50 liters for £68.45.  Fifty liters is 13.2 gallons, so about the size [...]

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Traveling Light With A Baby Or Toddler

August 24, 2010

I love this post from Miss Minimalist about how she goes on weekend trips with nothing but a large purse.  We have a toddler, so traveling does involve a bit more stuff than we would take for just ourselves, but we’ve always managed to travel relatively light, even with our son.  We just spent a [...]

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Back Home Again

October 15, 2008

We’re back home, after a very successful knee surgery for my husband.  We spent two days in my sister-in-law’s condo in a town about 30 miles from the hospital where the surgery was done, and managed to do so without spending much money.  We packed food to take with us, and I went for walks [...]

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The Splurge Debate

March 1, 2008

I just came across an interesting couple of posts at Being Frugal and Smart Easy Money that really made me think.  The original post was at Being Frugal, and then the counter point is at Smart Easy Money.  Basically the question is whether you get any additional value for buying extremely expensive stuff (the example cited [...]

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Kitchen Duty

September 15, 2007

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 [...]

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Girls Weekend Update

June 5, 2007

I’m back from my weekend with the girls.  We had a blast – it felt like we were back in college, and we laughed until our sides hurt.  We went for a great hike on Saturday, and the town we were in was having an arts and crafts fair while we were there.  One of [...]

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Races and a Budget-Challenging Weekend

May 30, 2007

Ok, so much for my decision to not run any more races for a while.  I have no idea what went wrong on Monday, but I had my worst-ever 10k finish.  They haven’t posted exact times yet, but my watch was showing about 48 minutes.  Ouch.  That’s almost 4 minutes slower than I should have [...]

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Munifest!

March 27, 2007

We got back last night at 1:30am from our long weekend in Moab for the 2007 Munifest.  If you’ve never heard of Muni – mountain unicycling – you’re not alone.  I had never heard of it either until last spring when we were mountain biking and saw some guys riding their unicycles on some crazy terrain.  My [...]

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The Good Life

March 8, 2007

We’ve been in Arizona this week, visiting my in-laws.  They’re from Wyoming, but for the past few years they’ve been spending the winter in AZ, in their motor home.  They have a sweet motor home and a sweeter place to park it down here.  They’re in a 55+ community of motor homes and trailers with [...]

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My Thoughts On Goals

December 24, 2006

I’ve always been a goal setter. Be it school, work, or money, I set goals. I don’t normally write them down, but they’re always front and center in my head. I just read a post by Millionaire Artist about her new goal screensaver – very creative. It got me thinking – should I write down [...]

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