Like everyone else, my feelings about saving money ebb and flow. Sometimes, I am highly motivated. I make frugal and practical choices to save the most money for my family. But other times, I just want to live my life without constantly thinking about money. I want to go out to eat. I want to…
Kitchen Remodel: Behind the scenes – Peninsula Cabinets
In this post, I’ll review our peninsula cabinets and the guides we used for the doors. This was one of the many firsts on this project for me, so it was nerve racking at times. The nerve racking part wasn’t so much the work itself, but the work coupled with the cost of the cabinets….
Prepping the Dining Room for Paint
I am in the middle of trying to fix my dining room walls before I paint. I should mention that our entire house is covered in wallpaper. And when I say the entire house, I mean the walls AND the ceilings. It’s in every room, and even in the closets. The people who lived here…
Saving for the future – February
With the remodeling out of the way (for now at least), it’s good to see a month where all of our accounts have grown. This month in Savings we were able to save our usual $500, plus an additional $186. We earned $7.59 in interest. In our Vacation fund we saved our typical $200 and…
Opening Multiple Savings Accounts
Like most married couples, John and I have a lot of savings goals. Once upon a time, we had one checking account and one savings account. However, I did not like having all of our savings in one pot. It was hard for me to keep everything separate and accounted for – especially when an…
Kitchen Remodel: Behind the scenes – Faux shiplap
Continuing with the behind the scenes of our kitchen remodel, this post will go over ripping and installing faux shiplap. When Christy told me she wanted to cover every inch of wall with shiplap, I died a little inside. It sounded like a lot of work. At least I could get it easily ripped into…
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…
Or more accurately, if you give Christy a new kitchen, she’s going to want a new dining room to go with it. Yes, I want to redo our dining room now. It’s a minor project – just paint, a new overhead light, and maybe some new wall decor. I also wanted to cover our ceiling…
Working Toward Retirement – January
I didn’t realize it last month, but we broke the $100,000 mark in our retirement savings. That’s a great milestone. I can’t wait to hit the next milestone – $200,000. As I stated last month, we were able to max out both of our Roth IRAs with the help of my bonus and our savings….
The Cost of Remodeling a Kitchen
I want to talk about the cost of remodeling a kitchen. Let me warn you – it isn’t cheap! To save money, we had our hands in nearly every project – even the ones we paid other people to complete. Today I am going to tell you how much we paid for various projects in…
Kitchen Remodel: Behind the scenes – Double pantry
Christy unveiled the final results of our kitchen remodel, but I thought I’d go back through the project and review some of the things we did for the first time in our lives. No better place to start than where we did – our fabulous double pantry. I’m famous for four words in our house…