NYC Bucket List-ed: 30-Day Challenge Recap


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NYC Bucket List

This is a sponsored post written by us on behalf of the Visa Clear Prepaid program and the Kaiku® Visa® Prepaid Card. All opinions came straight from our own noggins, not a robot’s. You might remember before our somewhat abrupt cross-country move from the Big Apple back to the Beehive State…

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Maximizing Your Budget: Entertainment


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Maximizing Your Entertainment

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…

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OFB Interviews: Saving for a Snowy Day


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OFB Interviews Laura and John

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…

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Observations on NYC vs Suburbia


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NYC vs Suburbia

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…

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