….was a total no-go.  Monday AM we found out that there were half a dozen cash offers and that the seller wouldn’t even read an FHA offer. So…back to the drawing board we went.  Tuesday I embarked on a long day of house-viewing with our agent, who had set up 8+ appointments and had made…

We’ve been house shopping.  We live in a lovely rental in a beautiful neighborhood.  We were in escrow on the home across the street when we discovered it had several un-permitted additions and there was no way to bring everything up to par legally while closing within 45 day as planned. We had to cancel…

Last time I wrote, I was a day away from heading to Costco again for the bulk of our weekly groceries.  I spent about $245 that trip, which was over my goal of $200 but I did stick to that $200 if you only count food and household items.  I did spend an unplanned $30…

Day 7 since my Costco trip, with another trip planned for tomorrow (Monday). While I got off track a little relating to my bulk cooking plans, I’m catching up today and will be caught up before my shopping trip tomorrow.  I have a list and since there’s still a lot of food left from the…

I didn’t make much progress this week on my bulk cooking.  I’d planned more.  I got a great start to the week but then little miss Katie decided to get sick on Wednesday and she *just wanted me* to be with her all the time.  It has definitely been really nice having leftovers in the…

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I had an epiphany while doing my daily Facebook and blog reading.  I’m the type of person who feels the need to instantly put any new plan into action, so I headed to Costco yesterday afternoon to stock up. Some numbers first though.  I have discovered (and this is…

Craig Fear from Fearless Eating has it right! I also absolutely loathe meal-planning and never, ever am able to stick to a meal-plan very long (I’m doing good if I make it a week!).  They usually involve complicated shopping lists and way more prep time daily than I am willing to contribute!  That’s why I…

Changes on the horizon.  Financial, budgetary changes…or “Why the heck would we go from having no car payments to having TWO car payments?” After several years of enjoying paid-off vehicles, we realized that our vehicles are a bit too old and not quite right for our driving habits to be worth driving them.  Adding up…

Why not?  I was going to do a “no-spend” June but heck…now is as good a time as any to try for a NO-SPEND SUMMER!  June…July…August…I’m going to PENNY PINCH! It’s a good time for a no-spend anything around here!  Two new car payments, a down payment on one, a  vacation for our oldest’s 18th…

I’ve spent the past couple days thinking about my cleaning/deluttering/reorganizing plans and I finally felt ready to sit down and write out my plans, room by room.  I am planning on keeping it all together in a little booklet so I can follow the plan when I do my twice a year overhauls.  I like…