Hello readers and happy Friday! My weekly challenge of not spending any money until today (payday!) was semi successful. The only thing we bought was gas for J’s car, but that is sort of a necessity to get to work and back. :) Other than that, we packed our lunches, made meals at home, avoided
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Decoration Inspiration
A few weeks ago, I opened a Pinterest account and since then have been slightly obsessed. It is such an ingenious way of saving images you like across the web! I have seen so many clever decorating ideas and it has inspired me to tackle some of the rooms in our apartment that need a
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What is your favorite cookbook?
I am in the midst of shopping for my next favorite cookbook, and I’d love your help. What is your favorite cookbook? What do you like about it? I’ll tell you mine first. My current favorite is the Cooking Light Everyday Favorites cookbook. Some of you may remember when I bought the book last year.
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For the children.
Lately J and I have started to talk about our future kids. Now, we are no where near ready to have kids (we just got married), but that doesn’t stop us from imagining the future family we’ll have one day. Take, for example, last week: We were on day six of our Harry Potter marathon
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Weekly Money Check-Up: 7/25
Weekly Money Check-Up is a weekly series on My Pretty Pennies. To participate, fill in the blanks in the comments section, or post it on your blog and link below. If you do post it on your blog, please credit MPP and link it back here. Thank you for participating! 1. The most I’ve spent
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Have a restful weekend!
Happy Friday everyone! First off, thank you SO much for all of the comments and notes from my Wednesday post! I was so nervous about sharing personal information, but you guys sure make it easy with so many sweet and thoughtful comments. Thank you. :) Since J and I unexpectedly bought a car earlier this
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Hello, my name is Ginna and this is my blog.
Dear Readers, My name is Virginia Neel, and I am the writer behind My Pretty Pennies. I started this blog anonymously in 2009 as an outlet to help pay off student loans with a community of other personal-finance bloggers. Since this blog has evolved from finance-only content to more personal, I have decided to reveal
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Vintage Village
Saturday J and I ventured to Vintage Village, a cute little collection of antique shops in North Raleigh. This was the first time I had been, and I cannot believe I have lived in Raleigh a whole year without knowing about this place! Each shop had so many things. My favorite shop was SuzAnna’s Antiques,
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Weekly Money Check-Up: 7/18
1. The most I’ve spent this last week was on dining out. It would have been our tickets to see Harry Potter, but we had two free tickets from Fandango. Scooore. 2. Today I am thankful that someone bought J’s old car! Since the car needed so much work, we were unsure on whether or
