Here's how I'm paying off debt from medical bills and credit card spending, including tips for spending less and saving for other goals simultaneously.…
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Last year, I tried to DIY a barn door using an old, beat up sliding door that was left in our house when we moved in. I don’t even know if you could call it a door. It was basically a piece of heavy plywood that had been painted…badly. I ordered this barn door hardware, which I have no complaints about, but with the crappy door and my haphazard installation it looked about as good as you would expect. Despite…
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I Did A No-Spend Month And Was Shocked How Much I Saved
Posted on September 18, 2019A no-spend month helped me build up my savings and get my spending back in check. Here's how it went and the tricks that helped me get through it.…
Can I really make a living freelance writing full time? An update on my progress as I work to make a big career move.…
Replacing our fireplace hearth has been on my to-do list for months. Although it’s a smaller project, I’ve been putting it off because I knew it would be a pain in the butt with lots of steps. Still, seeing the old, dingy-looking hearth bugged me every time I walked into our living room, so this month I finally decided to tackle updating it. Here’s what this part of the house looked like when we first moved in. A few months…
If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen this post from the end of April. In it, I shared that I was about to do something a little crazy: take a step back from client work and take some big, scary, undefined time off. If I’m being honest, it was a long time coming. I had been feeling off about work for a while, like I was headed in a direction I was neither excited nor passionate about—kind…