Three and a half years ago, Johnny and I were living in New York City. We’d been out of school less than two years, we were paying off debt, we had just a couple thousand in savings, and we’d been hoping to get pregnant for over a year. We were…
For over a week, we’d been receiving reminders that our building’s water would be turned off for a day. I didn’t enter it in my calendar because I kept telling myself that there was no way I’d forget something this big. Even the day before it happened, I reminded myself…
Joanna and I will forever owe our budgeting beginnings to the man, the myth, the legend, Mr. Dave Ramsey. A friend lent us The Total Money Makeover one fateful day, and our financial lives were changed forever. We adopted “gazelle intensity” as a normal phrase in our household. We listened in…
When I was preparing to write this post, I asked Johnny, “When did we become Amazon Prime members?” His response: “I don’t know. . . [thinking] . . . I really don’t.” And I don’t either. It’s changed our lives so much that we can’t remember a time without it.…
