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I’m still getting back in the swing of things, so rather than bring you our regularly scheduled Monday post, I want to direct you over to GenYFinanceGuy. He was nice enough to have me on his Freedom Fighter series today. I hope you enjoy the interview. My interview with Gen Y Finance Guy Still here? If so consider using Tradeking …
Guys, If you’ve noticed (or haven’t), I’ve been absent from the blog for a few days and most of social media and my fellow PF blogger comment threads. Sorry for the absence, I’ve been incredibly sick now for going on 2 weeks. You would think a lot of time home from work would be good for the writing but it …
Our house had 2 fruit trees already in place when we moved in. They’re a big part of the what prompted me to start our mini orchard and garden. One is our beautiful orange tree which we enjoy for several months, the other is our front yard loquat tree. For more on our garden: Fall gardening in Houston (winter harvests) Fruit …
Last week we decided to double up on our garden space. We’ve planted a massive number of trees, but we only had 2 raised beds, an 8×4 and 12×4. It’s a good bit of space for the winter garden, which is largely greens, but when we plant the more diverse summer garden, it doesn’t leave enough space for everything we wanted …
Sorry for the lack of posts and interaction over the weekend and yesterday. Caitlin and I took a very fun (and frugal) 3 day vacation to New Orleans. It’s driving distance from Houston (6 hours) and we have family there, so a free place to stay (and a free tour guide). We went down for Jazzfest. I love festivals, good …
It seemed like the time to look back at our 2015 goals post, and do a bit of review for the first quarter of the year and see how we’ve done. Just like anybody else, it’s easy to get caught up, stop tracking your progress and end up not meeting a goal. Financial Goals Saving Definite win. We’re on track with …
Well it’s been a rough month on the budget. The frugalmobile has over 150k on the odometer, over 30 MPG, and it’s ugly as can be. Unfortunately, it’s decided to fall apart. Problems abound and even with our extremely helpful and honest local mechanic, we were out $700 to fix the old sucker. Hopefully that’s the last repair bill and the faithful …
When I was a little kid, we lived in a rent house with a giant pecan tree in the back. One of the ones that seemed to reach all the way to the sky. I used to love when your entire extended family would be out there picking pecans, then cracking bags and bags of them, and stuffing yourself until …
I started another small project in our kitchen to go with our new kitchen cabinets. I was inspired by this post over at Shanty 2 Chic to put up some chalkboard paint on our walls. Mine’s probably not quite as pretty and I definitely don’t take the same quality of photos but I thought it turned out pretty well. It was …
Last year I finally got interested in the wonderful world of credit card hacking. It always sounded scammy before and hey, credit cards are bad right? How can you just sign up for cards and magically travel for free? There’s no free lunch. Turns out, actually their is and it’s delicious. In a later post I’m going to go in …