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How to meal prep a week’s worth of lunches or dinners for less than $2 per meal and all in under 1 hour! Fast, healthy and frugal! Meal prepping while staying on budget can be a little tough. While eating meals from home is one of the biggest ways to save money, meal prepping can […]
You often hear us talking about budgeting and cutting our unnecessary spending, focusing on things that bring us value and joy. Well, one thing we do always splurge for is a photobook of our trip. A tangible, printed version of some of the most unbelievable experiences, the surreal landscapes, and little moments that we will […]
Cancer. No matter who you are, where you’re from, or how much money you’ve got in the bank, you know someone or ARE someone who has been affected by it. Cancer doesn’t care what you’ve done with your life, how good or bad of a person you are, or how many people it will hurt […]
We all know how it goes. Baby’s first birthday. You want to celebrate and you want to invite everyone to celebrate with you. Babes only gets one first birthday after all. But then you start doing some research, yes Pinterest counts as research. You get a bunch of ideas together and set out to make […]
We like our jobs. So why the heck are we pursuing Financial Independence? “I consume countless blogs and podcasts that revolve around financial independence, or FI as we all know it. While we are actively pursuing FI I often find it hard to relate to the motivations I read so much about.” You see it […]
Destroying the stigma of budgeting “I could never life like that” It’s a sentence I have heard many times, whether it be when I pull out my phone at lunch with a friend to put what I spent into my budget app or when I tell someone Sorry I can’t do that this week we […]
Wen my husband and I first sat down and looked at our budget we realized we were spending more than $300 per week on groceries for TWO of us. That’s on top of eating out and not counting the meals we were getting eating at the in-laws for family dinners. That’s a ton of money […]
Starting out in our relationship 7 years ago we thought were doing well. We bought a large home together, both had the jobs we had worked hard for and loved, and had our wedding coming up. We seemed to be way ahead of our peers in the check off boxes of life and we were […]
There has been a drastic evolution in the process since our inaugural monthly budget meeting (thank goodness). January 13th, 2017. A day that will go down in infamy. Here’s a little bit of a backstory. If you haven’t read Our Story, please do, but I’ll give you the quick an dirty of it. A few […]