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Joanna

  • Gettin' Tipsy

    Tipping and Being Frugal: Can They Coexist?


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    Johnny and I got married in the summer of 2007. After the wedding and honeymoon, we spent the rest of the summer working our tails off together at a Mexican restaurant as servers. I had been a server for a couple years before meeting Johnny, but that summer was the…

  • Living with one car

    One-Car Family in a Two-Car World


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    Johnny and I have a bit of a conundrum. It’s one we’ve been trying to solve for months. In fact, it’s one of our New Year’s Resolutions. And, yet, here we are with our problem still unsolved. What’s our predicament? Well, we’re a one-car family… and we’d like to be…

  • We Can't Quit You

    Splurgeworthy: Cable TV


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    When Johnny and I were paying off our student debt (read Our Debt Story here), we sacrificed a lot. And we didn’t splurge on much. But there was one item we just couldn’t sacrifice: cable. Cable’s not cheap. On more than one occasion we asked ourselves if we should get…

  • The Zero Dollar Baby

    How We Got a Free Baby


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    Yesterday I got the best text from Johnny. It said, “We owe $0 on the epidural!” That text confirmed what we had hoped against hope would be true: having Baby Girl had cost us $0 in hospital bills. The Backstory Last July, Johnny and I were contemplating moving away from…