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When Internet Life Is Prettier Than Real Life
Home renovations are insidiously consumerist. You pay perhaps tens (or God forbid, hundreds!) of thousands of dollars and the last thing you want is something to be less than perfect. If you wanted...
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Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Floors: Done. Kitchen: Done (mostly). Still plan to put in shelves, paint cabinets, and replace hardware. Also put in a toe kick. Before and after pantry wall removed. Toilet:...
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The Quest For The Perfect Couch
via star athena Fresh from the escapades of home renovation, it is finally time to focus on moving in and furnishing the new place. With that mission in mind, last weekend, my partner, his mother, and...
View ArticleMoving On, Moving Forward
One of the things I’ve been seeking the last couple weeks is closure. I think of my life in chapters. And the last few weeks I’ve started a new one. Just today I turned in my keys for my old...
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August 2015 – Monthly Spending Update
Last month of ridiculously expensive home repairs! September will have some but not even the same order of magnitude as the past few months. Spending: $17,480.33 Details Home – Mortgage, appliances...
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A Detailed Rundown of My Renovation Costs
In total my renovations ended up costing me 50-75% higher than my original estimate. The best money spent, I’d say, was on the floors: The worst money I spent was on cabinets I didn’t end up getting...
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My Spending Wish List
I have the most #firstworldproblems. After all the renovation spending, I am tapped out for 2015. Not like $0 in my bank account tapped out, but enough so that I don’t feel comfortable spending on big...
View ArticleSunshine Blogger Award
Thanks to Liquid Independence for nominating me, this is my second go-round for the Sunshine Blogger Award (here’s a link to my first). Without further ado: Would you rather receive $100,000 today, or...
View ArticleNew Goal: Mortgage Free By 30
Debt, my friends, is crippling. And I have a lot of it. My mortgage is roughly 2.5x my yearly gross income. Which means I could spend 2 and a half years not spending money on anything except my house...
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Goodbye & Farewell
Friends– I’ve been busy lately. Real busy. I-don’t-know-how-I’ll-handle-it-all busy. And when I get busy I start to think. I start to “optimize.” Most of all, I start to cut things out. I’ve been...
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