Hi, this is Michelle’s editor, Ariel! You may have seen me here before talking about taking my side hustle full-time, living in a small house, and real life frugality. When I’m not working for Michelle, you can find me spending a lot of time over at M$M, working as a staff writer and editor-in-chief. The… … Read more
In May, I did a 5 month update on my 2012 goals. I’ll be honest, I haven’t looked at my yearly goals since that day in May, so I’m a little afraid of how this post is going to look. Yes, there are still a couple of days left in 2012, but I’m pretty positive… … Read more
We are currently on another road trip to Colorado. We are attempting to climb and summit a few mountains, but we also want to explore different areas we may want to move to. Since we have been going on so many trips lately, I have been looking for different ways to save money. I am a personal… … Read more
Hey everyone! Happy Monday. This past weekend was a very lazy one, and I don’t think I got much done. I have been sick for the past week, and I’m hoping that I’ll start feeling better soon. The weather has been great lately, but it’s been all over the place. It keeps switching from 90… … Read more
Today would have been my dad’s 63rd birthday. Last week, Wes’s grandfather passed away and my good friend found out some terribly sad news about her father. Due to these events, I want to dedicate today’s post to these three and talk about how to live life to the fullest. No matter who a person is,… … Read more
Nearly all of the phone calls I have recently received are common phone scams. In fact, whenever my cell phone rings, I just assume it’s a scammer. If it’s a number I don’t recognize, I don’t answer it. They can send me a text or leave me a message, it’s just that simple. But, after… … Read more
I promise I made more food besides just the picture above this past week. I just haven’t taken too many pictures. I hope everyone had a great weekend! Another week back to the grind. We had a wonderful weekend, temperature wise. 65 to 70 degrees most days. I hope it stays like this forever. One… … Read more
A few months ago, we finally got rid of cable. Since cutting cable out of our lives, we haven’t missed it one bit. We are still watching all of our favorite shows, we can still watch the news, and we don’t feel like we’re missing out on anything at all. There has only been one… … Read more
We had a ton of fun on our vacation to New Orleans and managed to do New Orleans on a budget. It was much more relaxed than past vacations. We left on Tuesday at around midnight and drove through the night. We arrived at around 10 or 11 am on Wednesday. I slept for probably… … Read more
We did some spending in the past week. We bought some new shirts for the Cardinals game and W also bought some athletic shoes. Spent around $150. We seem to hardly buy clothes anymore so I was fine with this. We will be returning the Cardinals tank top that W bought for me though (I … Read more
