Critter Chronicles
Financial Health
One Bite: Week Twenty
Bite Number 48: Use the Envelope System Up until Tony and I put our very first budget into use, I hardly ever carried cash. Maybe a dollar here or there and a bit of change, but I operated almost exclusively with my debit and credit cards. Tony did as well. The only exceptions to this … Continue reading
One Bite: Week Nineteen
Bite Number 40: Set Up Sinking Funds I feel as though I’ve written about this before, and I’m sure it’s somewhere in my archives, but sinking funds are a crucial component of my budget. Have you heard the term before? Sinking Funds are basically saving accounts with a purpose, which you contribute to on a … Continue reading
One Bite: Week Eighteen
Bite Number 28: Create a Regular Monthly Budget This post will be shorter than usual, frankly because 1- I’m tired and 2- I’ve written extensively about creating a budget already (links below). There’s no need for me to reinvent the wheel here. Tony and I have been living on a budget for over three and … Continue reading
One Bite: Week Seventeen
Life looks as though it’s about to get pretty busy around these parts (end of school, home maintenance, my first business trip, our first adventures with our new camper, and a bunch of races and physical feats that I’ve committed to), and though when I first sat down to write this post I was going … Continue reading
One Bite: Week Nine
Bite Number Thirty: Switch to Gentle, Eco-Friendly Skin Care If you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, maybe you’ll remember last summer when I got on my “green” kick, and then returned with an update a couple weeks later. This post will look similar to the latter link, but with the skincare … Continue reading
One Bite: Week Seven
Bite Number 41: Create A Chore System That Works For The Whole Family As with quite a few of the ‘Bites’ in this book, this was something I had planned to do before I purchased the book, and it just works out for me that I can use this as one of my tasks this … Continue reading
Busyness and Blogging Excuses
Things have been so busy – both in terms of scheduled activities and brain activities – that I haven’t even thought to sit down and write a coherent blog post lately. SO MUCH has happened in the past two (three?) weeks that I barely know where to begin, so I’ll just go for it. My … Continue reading
Menu Plan Monday: 31 October to 6 November
I still haven’t figured out what to do with myself and The Critters when Tony’s not home on weekends. While we’ve never been the type to plan every minute of our Saturdays and Sundays, we usually always spend them together as a family. When he’s not in town I find myself at a loss. I’ve … Continue reading
WFMW: Homemade Powdered Laundry Detergent
I subscribe to a lot of blogs. Some are parenting, some are military family, some are cooking. Others include finance and “clean living”, and in the past few years I’ve seen many entries to the “make your own laundry detergent” category in those last two. Long before Anthony was born I made the switch to … Continue reading
>If I Could, I’d Be DONE Being Responsible. But I Can’t.
>I originally wrote this post on Critter Chronicles but moved it here because it’s a bit more appropriate on this blog than on that one. The short of it is I’m still getting over being sick, and I’m tired. Here’s what happens in my head when those two factors get into a major car accident … Continue reading
