Our Cheap (and Weird) Christmas Tradition, Pt. II


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Johnny's $1 Christmas gifts

Christmastime is the best time. Great food, good company, quality movies, and an awesome opportunity for me to reclaim my Weirdest Person in Our Family award that I work so hard to earn every year. We introduced my longstanding $1 Christmas gift tradition on the blog last year, but if your finger…

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How We’re Spending Christmas


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This time last year, Johnny and I were gearing up to add a baby to our brood. We weren’t sure how much it was going to cost us to bring her into this world. And we’d just spent close to $1000 buying all of our baby gear and necessities. So…

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He Says/She Says: Christmas Trees


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He Says/She Says: Christmas Trees

In the He Says/She Says series, we discuss financial-ish topics where we agree to disagree… whatever that means. There are many moments of history I wish I had witnessed. The Gettysburg Address and Berlin Wall’s demise would have been kinda cool. But I really wish that I had been a…

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OFB Baby Update: Eleven Months


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Baby Bucks

 General Baby Thoughts I think this month it’s finally hit me just how fast our girl is growing up. In less than a month, we’ll be celebrating her first birthday! I’ve been having so many flashbacks of this time last year when I was waddling everywhere and frantically preparing for…

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