Author: Sandy L
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Babci’s New Kitchen and Kitchen Design Tips
Tweet Here’s Babci in her mostly done kitchen. We still need to do some trim work but it’s functional and she loves it. The window overlooks her chicken coop, so she can watch her chickens while hanging out at the sink. We kept the original stove and fridge for now as she picked almost the same…
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Babci: Taking the Walker to the Packie.
Tweet This post has been sitting in my drafts for a while. Not sure why I didn’t post it sooner. I have so many pent up stories in my head I don’t know where to begin. As a quick update, Babci is living with us. Her house is for sale, we’ve had one offer on…
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An unsponsored list of my favorite products
Tweet I think I’m going to start posting random product observations on my blog as it seems to be increasingly difficult to find unbiased, un-sponsored product reviews for stuff. As we’ve just bought another fixer and I’m doing a lot of online research on different products, I feel like it’s getting increasingly more difficult because…
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Cheapskate Stories – Housing Sales and Group Dinners
Tweet So, we’ve been living in our house about a month now and I continue to get annoyed about the cheapness of the people we bought the house from. We went into this purchase with eyes wide open knowing that the house is a gut job and needed LOTS of work. We paid what we…
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Knucklehead Unplanned Expenses
Tweet So, it’s official. We’re moved into our new to us old farmhouse. I gave a tour to a colleague of mine a week before we moved in and he’s like “Wow..there is no way in hell my wife would ever move into a house in this state.” He didn’t say it in a mean…
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Babci’s Dream House
Tweet We’re on dumpster 11 in the rehab of our 2 family. The sad thing is that we haven’t even started gutting the inside yet. That’s just the major exterior repairs like roof (3 layers) and rotted siding and trash removal. We found some old tractor tires, rusted milk buckets and barbed wire during our…
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Babci’s Revenge
Tweet This weekend’s tagsaling event did not disappoint. I did get a new Babci story to share with you all. As I’ve mentioned in the past, Babci has been known to have a bit of a vindictive side. For those who have done unusually cruel things to her or her family, she has no issue…
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Debt/Home Consolidation Here we come
Tweet So my life has been so crazy these last few weeks, I couldn’t even write about it. Last week I went to an amazing wedding in Ireland full of interesting and creative entrepreneurs. The bride is a fashion designer and her crowd was so refreshingly inspiring. We were friends of the groom, so had…
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Growing Up Frugal – The Rag Store
Tweet So Single Mom Rich Mom is posting again too..Hurray. She wrote a funny article about the similarities of Chuck Norris to Mr. Money Moustache. The article was pretty funny, but in the comments, it even got more interesting. You see, MMM is big on living the extreme frugal lifestyle..or at least talking about it…
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Staying Motivated during Debt Reduction
Tweet In my previous post on life lessons learned from debt freedom, rented life asked: When you went all in, (relating to cutting expenses) how did you sustain that? We could cut a few things–our bi-weekly date night (a movie, or a dinner, never both), eating less meat (though that doesn’t appeal to me, as…