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 happy weekend.
Woohoo! It’s Friday! J has today off for Veteran’s Day, so I decided to take a vacation day and deem it a Lazy Day. So far I’ve woken up late (8:00 is late these days), enjoyed two large cups of coffee, pinned some stuff on Pinterest, and watched the Today Show in my sweatpants. It’s
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Homemade Granola
I love granola. I love it as a cereal, in my yogurt, paired with fruit, or even by itself with some chocolate chunks as a snack. I just hate how expensive it is to buy it! So last weekend I looked up the ingredients and found out that I had absolutely EVERYTHING to make my
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Things I have Learned #1
I am starting a new series called “Things I have Learned.” It’s going to be a very random series of me sharing very random things I have learned, and in no particular order. Enjoy! Put a pinch of cayenne pepper in your birdseed and squirrels will stay away. J and I live in an apartment
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Scenes from my favorite park in Autumn
The Umstead State Park is one of my favorite places in Raleigh. It has miles and miles of wooded forest, and as soon as you step on the trail you forget that you are in a state capital and feel like you’ve been transformed to the middle of nowhere. This past weekend was the autumn
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Weekly Money Check-Up: 11/7
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 wonderful weekend!
Happy Friday! What are you up to this weekend? I have been on the go this week, so it will be nice to just relax this weekend. Our poor apartment needs some major TLC so I plan to clean, hang pictures, organize closets, finish a pinterest craft, and even wrap some early Christmas presents I
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O Fount of Love
Tonight I left work late grumpy and ready to end a terrible, no good, very bad day. In the first few minutes of my car ride, I started paying attention to the music playing in the background. I had in Matt Papa’s CD (a worship leader in the area), and was suddenly I was humbled
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Our Car Loan
I am sure all you long time readers of this blog are like, “Enough with the life posts — what is going on with your budget?!” (Although let’s be honest, any hard-core personal finance gurus have no doubt dropped off since the last financial post was… oh, forever ago. Seriously, I tried to search the
