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Happy Things Friday: 12 December

It’s officially feeling “real” — December is here!

The weather in Nova Scotia is certainly reinforcing this message. We’ve had fairly consistently white weather these last few weeks. And while I’m a bit cranky about…

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My 3-Minute, Minimal, Cheap Makeup Routine!

This will either be a post you find tremendously interesting or a complete yawn-fest.

Most makeup tutorials I see online feel wildly unrealistic for me.

I want fast. I want cheap. I want minimal.

I am…

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Fa La La or Nope Nope Nope: Christmas Songs I Love (and Don’t)

Other years, I’ve run an official poll or done a Top Five/Bottom Five summary about Christmas music. This year, I’m going to live on the wild side and get loosey-goosey and talk about music…

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Christmas, Holidays, Personality Insights
Dec, 10, 2025
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More Frugal Things Lately

Are these posts getting boring? (Don’t answer that question.) I seem to keep coming up with things to write about!

(Perhaps I also feel the need to counteract my recent post about frugal losses.)

FREE PARKING

When…

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Frugality, Money
Dec, 09, 2025
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Top Five/Bottom Five: Fruit

This is another Top Five/Bottom Five I must have done on my old blog? I was sure I’d done it here, but can’t find it.

Time to fix that!

In general, I like most types…

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Happy Things Friday: 5 December

And just like that…it’s December.

We’ve had snow (and a snow day!) and it is very much beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Right now, everyone else is in bed and I’m starting this post…

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Q & A: Our Family Trip to Europe

I’ve had some questions about our upcoming trip to Europe, so I thought I’d do a post to work through each of those!

In all honesty, I feel like I still have so many…

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Life, Parenting, Travel
Dec, 04, 2025
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