Welcome back to the Kitchen Remodel On A Budget series. If you haven't checked out Part 1, hop on over HERE and see how we even got into this mess! The Two-Tone Kitchen We left off last time getting the plan finalized for our kitchen update. We had scored a free fridge, and were able to re-purpose the cabinets that had been (weirdly) installed in our garage for the past 5 years. The problem was … [Read more...] about Kitchen Remodel On A Budget: Part 2
How To Travel For (Mostly) Free: Nashville On Credit Card Rewards
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of How To Travel For Free! Today's episode will be detailing our recent trip to Nashville. I'm not exactly sure how we ended up deciding on going on this trip, but I do know that my wife watches the show Nashville, and that's what prompted the conversation. Now, before you think it's ridiculous to go on a vacation based on a TV show, MAYBE WATCH … [Read more...] about How To Travel For (Mostly) Free: Nashville On Credit Card Rewards
Kitchen Remodel On A Budget: Part 1
The thing is, we weren't even planning on remodeling the kitchen. Like at all. We were annoyed with how small it was, that's for sure. We bought the house to entertain, thrown fun parties and host BIG family holidays, but the kitchen has always been sorely lacking. Then everything changed. Buy Nothing Project: Free Fridge I've told you before about the Buy Nothing Project. I CANNOT OVERSTATE … [Read more...] about Kitchen Remodel On A Budget: Part 1
Broken Doesn’t Mean Broken
Having been in the business of frugal for quite a while now, I think I take a few things for granted. There are habits that I've built over the years that I don't think twice about. Some are good, some are definitely bad (monetarily speaking). The bad ones I continue to work on month after month (food budget, miscellaneous expenses). The good ones seem to go on cruise control, but they are … [Read more...] about Broken Doesn’t Mean Broken
How To Incrementally Optimize Your Finances
"Budgets are too restrictive" "I don't want to live like a hermit" "Budgets are not fun at all" "There's got to be a better way to save money" I get pretty fired up when talking about budgets. I mean, you can ask anyone who's ever asked me any financial question, I can go on and on and on and on and on about what an amazing tool budgets are for kicking financial booty! In fact, I … [Read more...] about How To Incrementally Optimize Your Finances
What Super Bowl 49 Should Teach You About Money
If you didn't know, I'm a Seattle native. I've lived in the area my whole life. And let's be honest, sports have mostly sucked around here. We had the great Mariners run of '95. I think the Sonics won some junk before I was born. And the Seahawks lost a Super Bowl a while back. But the last 2 years have been a bit crazy. The Seahawks have finally got this town going again and have put us … [Read more...] about What Super Bowl 49 Should Teach You About Money