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Wow, what a year! We celebrated my daughter's first birthday and our 4 year anniversary in 2017. We made three trips to Nebraska to see family, most recently over the holidays. We had a great time playing cards and enjoying each other's company. We are now diving back into our busy lives.
Happy New Year! It's that time of year where people make all kinds of new year resolutions. Two months later those resolutions of working out saving money are gone. I have never been a big fan of resolutions, because I feel like everybody breaks their resolution. Therefore, I never set resolutions, but instead I set goals.
Greetings from snowy Nebraska! We are visiting my family this year for the holidays and I get to enjoy a light dusting of snow as I write some today! My wife and I always want to see a White Christmas when we visit my family. This year we were lucky enough to enjoy a White Christmas without any of the travel problems of a major snow storm.
I know that Christmas is not that far away and most of you probably have all of your shopping completed (unless you are like me). I tend to wait until the last minute to complete my shopping, because of the business of basketball season.With Christmas break upon my family, I have more time to complete my holiday gift shopping and even find more time to write. Here are 19 ways that you can save this holiday season, not only on shopping.
Earlier this year, we took a 3 month challenge and attempted to buy nothing 'new' from the August thru October. Both my wife and I enjoyed the challenge and are talking about attempting another one in the future! With our challenge ending last month, I decided to look at the month of November and see how the 3 month challenge affected our spending and affected our decision to buy new stuff. We definitely purchased more 'new' stuff in November, however, I don't believe that it was outlandish.
