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Outfitting our Baby with Hand-Me-Down, Borrowed, and Used Stuff

October 5th, 2016 | 4 Comments

Outfitting our Baby with Hand-Me-Down, Borrowed, and Used Stuff

It’s quite challenging to maintain our frugal nature with DPR on the scene. During my pregnancy, we collected items slowly and with an eye to their cost by shopping consignment stores and sales and judiciously accepting hand-me-downs from friends and relatives. But when DPR arrived five weeks early, we went on an Amazon spending binge to finish obtaining what we thought was the bare minimum of stuff that she would need immediately upon coming home. … Read entire article »

Filed under: family, frugality

April 2016 Budget Report

May 6th, 2016 | 7 Comments

April 2016 Budget Report

April in Seattle was even more beautiful than March – way more warm, sunny days than rainy/overcast days, and quite sunny weekends. Each Saturday in April we went for a long walk in a new-to-us local park to exercise and see more of our city. We’re considering this lovely weather as “borrowed time” and do expect the rain and chill to return before summer really starts, so we’re capitalizing on it in the meantime.   We also … Read entire article »

Filed under: month in review

Laying a Path from Here to There

June 8th, 2012 | 24 Comments

Laying a Path from Here to There

I’m afraid of drifting through life – of letting time pass without accomplishing anything.  Sometimes I feel like we’re drifting financially while we’re in graduate school because we don’t have several major monetary objectives toward which we are working.  While I think goal-setting has been a bit overblown and doesn’t necessarily work well for everyone, I believe we all need to have a vision for our lives and to take steps to realize those visions.   If … Read entire article »

Filed under: goals, values