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Joanna

  • Maximizing Your Entertainment

    Maximizing Your Budget: Entertainment


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    In 2015, we’re putting extra emphasis on budgeting since it’s a must for financial success. Each month, we tackle a different category, and by year’s end, we’ll have one big resource for maximizing your entire budget. The Entertainment portion of our budget is the one I feel least qualified to write…

  • OFB Interviews Laura and John

    OFB Interviews: Saving for a Snowy Day


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    For today’s installment in our interview series, we’d like to introduce you to Laura and John from Rather Square! They’ve got a great story and some awesome tips, so enough from us. Here’s Laura! Tell us your story. My husband (and co-blogger) John and I bought a nearly-100-year-old American Foursquare…

  • NYC vs Suburbia

    Observations on NYC vs Suburbia


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    Moving out of a New York City apartment and into a house in suburbia is a big change. Okay, that’s an understatement. There’s almost nothing similar about our life in New York and our life now. As we’ve been getting settled in, Johnny and I have found ourselves thinking aloud…

  • Our Monthly Budget: August

    Our Monthly Budget: August 2015


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    Hello from Utah! We’re back in the Mountain State, whose name is actually the Beehive State oddly enough. We’re behind on everything, including responding to some (many) comments. But we’ve been reading them all, and we’re excited to get back in the groove of everything. Our whole family functions better when we’re…