As you recall from Part:1, I was just leaving university with about $45,000 of debt baggage, a car full of my stuff, and of course my trusty dog. I moved to the east coast where a musician seemed much more appreciated. I immediately picked up some work teaching piano a...
People often feel empowered when they hear personal stories of overcoming obstacles. For some concepts to truly resonate with me, I like to hear what someone has done to meet their accomplishments and spend time wondering if their strategies would work in my shoes. One...
It feels like this is the right time to talk about big budgets and the dollars and cents of it all. We are all still very much home and staring at those walls a lot more than ever. But something you hear when confronted with a renovation is: "we blew the budget on (ins...
One of the general conversations I'm hearing is that we are eager to turn our homes into an all-in-one hot spot: the office, school, recreation center, do it all house! Backyard oasis are being built, pools are sold out, and kitchens are being remodeled. We are spendin...
Is anyone else feeling cooped up? Are you trying to work from home and can't find your mojo? It's a struggle to keep focused in my home, add in a full house these days and it seems near impossible. So on the small doses of time I have been getting to work on my busines...
My house is a mess, and that's just going to have to be OK for the next few weeks. I have little activity stations set up throughout the house and my son burned through all of them in an hour and a half. This is a lesson for me in patience and accepting the situation.
This weekend we had a whole bunch of snow and I was feeling like nesting around our home. Although we have some longer term plans for bigger projects, I created a list of projects we could do in the meantime to satisfy my nesting urges. A quick stop to a thrift shop an...
Is it me, or have you noticed that the holiday marketing out there heavily implies that we need to basically renovate our homes to be so-called 'ready' for the holidays? I just heard an ad on the radio letting me know that I can borrow up to $35,000 from them this seas...
The other day as I was penciling in social event after social event into our family calendar and I was suddenly hit with how much all of these things could potentially cost. To add to that, we need a few things for the home, add some extra curricular activities for th...
At some point birthday parties for our kiddos seem to have gone from a once or twice in a lifetime thing, to a big, overpriced annual extravaganza. Families are shifting buckets of money towards the perfect venue, cake, loot bags and so on. What if a family has multip...
