Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully.
I spent quite a few hours this week calculating and recalculating terms, rates and loan amounts in an attempt to determine whether or not my husband and I should refinance one or both of our mortgages. So far it looks like a wash. In fact, by the time we pay closing costs and deal with … Read more
A couple of posts I found particularly interesting this week: I’m Sorry, But You’ve Got to Stop Apologizing How To Be Married A Decade And Stay Madly In Love Sharing Space with Your Spouse Cheap Passport Pictures (Part Two): Online Ordering When More is Less 11 Great Digital Tools for Home Life Earning What You … Read more
Here are just a few of the posts I enjoyed this week: On Spending Money: How Do You Buy Stuff? 10 Life and Money Lessons Learned From Immigrant Parents Balancing Spending with Saving: Being Frugal but not Miserly 8 Ways Doing Less Can Transform Your Work & Life How to Clean Your Hair Without Shampoo
A list of my favorite links from the past few weeks: 20 Tips to Waste Less Food 20 Ways to Simplify Your Work Life A Beautiful Method to Find Peace of Mind Lower Your Expectations, Increase Your Happiness — This link goes hand in hand with the link above. Be Still Toxic Friends and How … Read more
My favorite post of the week, titled The Path to Contentment, sings to me. It comes from Frugal Dad who writes about a shift in thinking caused by a series of events in his life and the lives of those around him. Faced with the notion of mortality Frugal Dad has started to focus more … Read more
After being away on vacation for a week I am trying my best to catch up on the RSS feeds in my reader. I performed a quick clean of the unread posts, highlighted a couple I liked and decided to discard the rest. I just don’t have enough time to catch up on all of … Read more
I’ve gotten really behind on reading all of the links in my RSS reader. I think it might be time to purge a few blogs from the list, because I just can’t keep up on all of the new posts. Here are a few of my favorite links from the past few weeks: 6 Solid … Read more
Spring is definitely in the air. The temperature reached 70 degrees in DC and I opened up the windows after a rain storm early this morning to let the breeze in. I worked late last night and I have little to no motivation to get any work done this afternoon. What is it about those … Read more