This Month’s Top Post: 10,000 Cupcakes Challenge – 253 Views This Month’s Runner Up: Why I Don't Buy Bottled Water – 225 Views Hello everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!  I'm drafting out this post while handing out candy. This month I started off to a great start!  I got all of my posts planned for November and December and even created most of my Pinterest art in the first week of the month! Speaking of Pinterest, who else was irked by the layout change?  Since my old board covers no longer fit the new layout, I created all new ones! ...

I have very exciting news!  Nick and I are building a house! We've been looking at model homes for about a year now.  Our intentions weren't necessarily to purchase a home but one came up that is just perfect for us! The new house is double the size of our current house and was a lot cheaper than we were expecting.  The housing market is crazy high where we live right now.  We got lucky because I bought my current house when the market was low so my house almost doubled in value! Our lot line goes from the yellow ...

This post is part of a series.  To start the series from the beginning, click here.  To browse through the series, click here. Once you’ve determined which budgeting direction you will use, you need to start to layout the specifics of your budget plan. One of the fundamental parts of creating your budgeting plan is to choose between a cash budgeting system and a digital budgeting system. These are not to be confused with budgeting tools such as envelopes, check registers, and other types of tools.  All of the tools for budgeting can be customized to fit the system you ...

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A few years ago I came across the Teal Pumpkin Project while searching online.  The Teal Pumpkin Project is a way for neighbors to show that they provide treats for all children including children with food allergies. Placing a Teal Pumpkin on your front porch on the night of Trick-or-Treating shows that you have treats that are not only food products.  Some ideas include spider rings, tattoos, stickers, and other fun trinkets that children love. This project was especially important to me because for over five years I had a 'mystery diagnosis' so to speak and I was unable to ...