Living with One Car Without Going Crazy
Benefit of one car: only one car to dig out of the snow It’s fairly rare here in the US these days to find families with one car. We’ve been married nine years and have only had one car for eight of...
View ArticleWant, Need, Wear, Read: Christmas 2013
We try to keep gift-giving simple with our kiddos which is why last year we started following the want, need, wear, read model of giving gifts. Since our kiddos are four years old and seven months...
View ArticleMoney Talk with Preschoolers
© 2012 Hobbies on a Budget, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio “Is it in our budget to get me a toy today?” my four-year old inquires. Yay! She’s absorbing something underneath all that squirming. Talking to...
View ArticleCreative Spaces: 3 Kids (4 & Under!) in 1 Bedroom
Today I’m interviewing Nina from Sleeping Should Be Easy about her creative living space. Hi Nina! Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you ended up needing a creative living space. I’m Nina, a...
View ArticleLiving With One Car: How & Why
We’ve been a one car family for over 10 years now. Last time I wrote about living with one car, we had a barely 3-year old, a 3 bedroom house with a large fenced in backyard and we lived 7 minutes...
View ArticleHow & Why We Do Allowance
As a kid, my mom gave me money to spend at the canteen for overnight camp. My 4th, 5th, and 6th grade self would return home with most of ‘s. While my friends would buy overpriced t-shirts and load up...
View ArticleA Beginner’s Guide to Free Family Camping
We’re paying off student loan debt very aggressively, so we want to keep our family vacations inexpensive. We also have small kids so until recently this has mostly looked like unplugging for a few...
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