Zero Waste CSA Week 3
I feel like I am playing “Iron Chef” every week with all of these new types of veggies, but it has been a fun challenge and I still have not wasted ANY of our CSA produce. I hope you are feeling a bit more inspired to …
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Zero Waste CSA Week 2
This summer we are challenging ourselves to get creative with our cooking and use as much of the vegetable as possible. See my first post here. I am hoping that this blog series serves as a bit of inspiration for you as your are cooking with fresh …
Zero Waste CSA Week 1
Last summer was the first time that we tried a local CSA (community supported agriculture) program. We had a great experience with the regular deliveries of fresh, organic vegetables. We were able to meet the farmers and visit the farm that was raising our food. …
Airbnb Update –May 2018
We have now lived in our home for almost ten months. To catch up, here are a few links to past posts about our house story, our airbnb rooms, why you should rent out your rooms, etc. In these ten months, we have had eight long-term …
11 Ways to Help the Environment that Save Money
1. Make Non-Toxic Cleaning Products After you use the cleaning products, they slip down the drain and are treated with the waste water and then dumped into our waterways. In a May 2002 study of contaminants in stream water samples across the country, the U.S. …
10 Mistakes that First-Time Airbnb Hosts Make
I have been hosting through Airbnb for about two years now, and I have learned a lot since posting our first listing. I reached out to other Airbnb hosts to see what some of their advice was for first time hosts. Here’s what they said: …
Traveling Cheaply with Airbnb
In my experience, traveling gets really expensive when you are browsing hotels and figuring out where to stay. I was so thankful to find out about Airbnb, and being able to travel and stay places for much less money. Airbnb has all sorts of different …
3 Financial Questions to Ask Before Getting Married
1. Short Term Financial Goals — What do you like to spend your money on? When we were getting married, I told Collin that I did not want to get married if that meant we would stop traveling (I know, sounds a bit immature). But …
The Envelope Budget: How we did it differently
My husband and I were looking into different ways to budget that would actually work. We are not people who keep our receipts, balance a check book, or even check our bank accounts often. This led to us being unable to follow even carefully thought …
5 Ways to Double Your Mortgage Payment
My husband and I recently bought a house. I joked about how signing a 30-year mortgage was more terrifying than committing to marriage for the rest of my life. I hated looking at the numbers of how much money in interest we would be paying …