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December 2013

  • How We’re Spending Christmas


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    This time last year, Johnny and I were gearing up to add a baby to our brood. We weren’t sure how much it was going to cost us to bring her into this world. And we’d just spent close to $1000 buying all of our baby gear and necessities. So…

  • He Says/She Says: Christmas Trees

    He Says/She Says: Christmas Trees


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    In the He Says/She Says series, we discuss financial-ish topics where we agree to disagree… whatever that means. There are many moments of history I wish I had witnessed. The Gettysburg Address and Berlin Wall’s demise would have been kinda cool. But I really wish that I had been a…

  • Baby Bucks

    OFB Baby Update: Eleven Months


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     General Baby Thoughts I think this month it’s finally hit me just how fast our girl is growing up. In less than a month, we’ll be celebrating her first birthday! I’ve been having so many flashbacks of this time last year when I was waddling everywhere and frantically preparing for…

  • Please Keep off the Grass

    Money is Meant to Be Spent


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    Growing up, we had a pair of special couches in our living room. They were the no-touching-no-sitting-no-breathing-on-couches. It provoked many a question in a five-year-old’s brain: Are those couches as soft as clouds? Will we get eaten by them? Are there fruit roll-ups hidden between the cushions? It was like the…