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Joanna

  • Baby Girl at 4 months

    OFB Baby Update: Four Months


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    In the Baby Bucks series, we babble about babies and money and sleep deprivation and cuteness overload. In that order. In one week, our girl will be four months old, so we thought we’d update you on our parenting journey so far, financial and otherwise. General Baby Thoughts Gripping: Babies…

  • Sawhorse Office Desk

    How We Scored a Custom-Made Desk for $150


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    Lately Johnny and I have been itching to get our DIY on with home projects for a few reasons. After we posted about our love/hate relationship with IKEA and we read your comments, it lit a fire under us to have quality pieces in our home without spending a ton…

  • The 50 States Project: North Carolina

    OFB 50 States Project: North Carolina


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    In The OFB 50 States Project, you the readers spill the beans about your state: the good, the bad, and the delicious. And thus provide “forever place” seekers (like yours truly) a useful resource in their search. We’d love to hear about your state! To be a part of this project,…

  • Passion vs Pay

    Making Money vs Doing What You Love


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    Johnny and I are all about maximizing our savings, being financially prepared, and doing everything we can to make a few extra cents. So because of our mindset toward money, one would assume that we would have chosen careers that maximized our cash flow. Right? But we didn’t. I’m going…