Last week, we sold our house! It was on the market for about two weeks and sold for about $20k more than I thought it would. When we bought our house, our original plan was to stay in it for about a year and then rent it out. Not long after moving in, I started […]
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HOW TO START A BLOG TO PAYOFF DEBT
Are you in the throes of trying to pay off debt? If so, you aren’t alone! A couple of years ago my husband and I set out to pay off $650k in student loan debt that we’d acquired during law school (me) and dental school (him). We’d both grown up hearing that student loan debt […]
HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT ON A BUDGET
My son’s birth was the catalyst for my husband and I to get our finances in order and learn how on earth to pay off our whopping $650k of student loan debt. But after our son was born, I desperately wanted to lose my pregnancy weight and quickly! We were on an extremely tight budget […]
HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR SAVINGS ON BLACK FRIDAY
Can you believe that it’s almost Thanksgiving? I really haven’t processed that summer is over yet– it took our first snowfall yesterday to really open my eyes. Why does it feel like the older I get, the faster time goes by? That seems cruel. Does anyone else feel this way? Anyway, with Thanksgiving next week, […]
HOW TO WORK FROM HOME WITH VIPKID
Have you been trying to find a legitimate way to work from home? Our son was born right around the time that we decided we were going to tackle our $650k head on and pay it off as quickly as possible. I immediately started researching jobs that allowed me to work from home (in addition […]
HOW TO EARN MONEY WITHOUT A JOB
When my son was born, I took one look into those big beautiful blue eyes and I was smitten. I knew, despite all my feminist ways and hoorah about working women, that I was NOT going to be able to spend all my waking hours away from that handsome snuggle goblin. But, I also knew […]
HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM A BLOG
When my husband Danny and I decided we were going to take the plunge and payoff our student loans as quickly as possible, we knew we were going to need a big shovel. We started looking for ways that we could earn money on the side. Since we have a son, it was really important […]