I’d like to thank my friends Talaat and Tai from His and Her Money.com for contributing this guest post! When it comes to marriage and finance, they have great insight and advice. Today they are tackling the question, “Should couples have separate bank accounts”? Have you ever wondered what the key is to a…
Sometimes I have a hard time pronouncing words correctly. The list includes “wolves”, “brewery”,”antenna” and apparently “enchiladas”. My BBF and I got into a long discussion one day about how I pronounce enchiladas incorrectly as “anch-iladas” and she said it was “inch-iladas”. Later in the day I consulted my Spanish teacher mother-in-law who confirmed I…
It’s Valentine’s Day. The first Valentine’s Day that I remember NOT being depressed was the first year I was dating my husband. I had a monumental AP Chemistry exam the next morning and so I spent Valentine’s Day studying in a coffee shop with my best friend. Little did I know that he was…
Awe Valentine’s Day! What’s not to love? Chocolates, dinner, flowers, and sweet lovin’. Let’s get real. Your husband will forget until a co-worker reminds him so he’ll hit up the drug store on the way home. He’ll buy you candy which is perfect timing because you just gave up your January dieting goals a solid…
Let me start with this hard question. If something happened to your spouse, would you have any idea where you and your kids stand financially? I’ve recently come to discover that the answer for many married women is a resounding, “No.” Often followed by a humble, “I trust him.” Many wives out there just don’t…
In full disclosure, I received the SHARK® ROTATOR® POWERED LIFT- AWAY® vacuum for free in order to write a review of the product. The thoughts and opinions expressed in the post are all my own. Buyer’s remorse. It comes along when you least expect it. For me, it happened with a vacuum. About three years…
Are you like me and regularly lose the battle against paper piles? That lingering stack of junk mail, ads, statements, newsletters and magazines? You know the one I’m talking about. You go through it and it gets piled up again. I’m pretty sure that those things self-replicate! In an attempt to get this area under…
Does the idea of starting a cleaning or organization project sometimes overwhelm you to the point where you find other things to do just to avoid facing that project? I believe we have all been there at one time or another. There are certain items in everyone’s homes that can be purged pretty quickly and…
Do you experience the phenomenon around your home where you clean, scrub and shine all day and nobody even notices? Or worse yet, you spend all that time cleaning and your child undoes it in less than 30 seconds? I think we have all been there at one time or another. I used to spend…
This month I’m writing a series of posts around the theme, 31 Days to a More Organized Life. Although I’m doing a lot of writing about cleaning and organization of the home, one area of organization that I think impacts people more than they know is meal planning. How much time, money and energy could…
Do you struggle with building solid habits in your life as much as I do? If I set the bar too high, I fail. If I set it too low, I don’t feel challenged enough. Then sometimes life just comes in and interrupts my flow. It can be hard to get back on track. Several…
Sometimes when I look at those fancy kitchens in the magazines, I get a wee bit jealous. You know, the ones that have the advanced organization systems where all the dried goods are sorted into matching stainless steel containers…in drawers…with perfect labels? My kitchen doesn’t have a pantry and I’ve got one of those awkward…
Do you have a place in your house that you stash clutter you don’t know what to do with? In my house, that’s the finished basement. There is a cluttered corner where I stash all the items that need to leave my house but I’m paralyzed with indecision about what EXACTLY to do with it all….
There are people in the world who are totally legit organizers. Then there are the rest of us (hand raised) who think we are organized people, but when we take a step back we realize that we just make our hoarding look pretty. Let’s get to the root of your de-cluttering habits and answer the…
Do you ever run across those books that literally give you so many AH HA moments that it looks like a highlighter exploded all over the book? As a mom who used to struggle with chronic disorganization, clutter and time management issues, I found that there were books with tons of real life application. Books…
“Are you happy?” It was a silly question I asked my husband each day after he got home from work to gauge his mood. Over time, a funny thing happened. As my son learned to talk, he picked up on this phrase. Often times when we were out in public or meeting new people, the first…
I love to add a handmade feel to my gift wrap each year. Last year I went with dollar store butcher paper and rubber letter stamps. This year I was wandering through Hobby Lobby and kept seeing all kinds of adorable chalkboard decor. As I got to the Christmas wrap section the thought struck me,…
I think one of the things I used to hate about budgets before I had a REAL one was the idea that budgeting took “FOR-EV-VERRR” (that was for all my Sandlot loving friends out there). I assumed I would spend endless hours trying to figure out where all my money had gone all month from…
I recently had a new family move in across the street from my house and I wanted to welcome them to the neighborhood with a handmade gift. I love my niegborhood but I’ve got to admit that people keep to themselves. The act of knocking on someone’s door with something to give them is almost…
Have you ever had those seasons where you felt like the storms of life might just break you? When everything that could go wrong was going wrong at the same time. How to you prepare & how to do you survive a financial Crisis? For inspiration on this topic, check out my guest post on…
If you love the look of wrapped gifts, but feel like you are all thumbs when it comes to actually wrapping them then this post is for you! From tips on purchasing to step by step instructions, you’ll be wrapping in no time! Just gather all of your tinsel tools and make sure you have…
In the summer of 2013 I began a journey that I never would have dreamed I’d begin. Late one night, while I was getting ready to go to bed, I had a strange thought cross my mind. A thought that has changed my life in the best way possible. “Start a blog.” Maybe it was…
Just to let you know, compensation for this post was provided by Upromise. The thoughts and opinions expressed in this post are all my own. Do you have a financial “elephant in the room” in your life? Those looming money situations that most people just don’t like to talk about—things like paying off college debt…
Special thanks to Chocoley for providing the chocolate to make this tutorial free of charge! The thoughts and opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine! I remember coming home from school, putting my back pack down and searching for that little, round, green tin box. The one lined in wax paper and filled with…
It’s the same every year. The alarm sounds and my adrenaline starts pumping. In my mind I immediately see the goal and I’m walking toward it-tunnel vision-focusing on nothing more than that new electronic I’ve been stalking for months. As I come back to reality I push away the bedcover and b-line to the bathroom…