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Christmas 2025: Some Gifting Ideas

Here’s the thing: I don’t have affiliate links (read: no financial incentive), and I find the whole linking-and-photo-grabbing process incredibly tedious. Also, several family members read this blog, so I can’t post what I’m…

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  • Christmas, Holidays, Planning
  • Dec, 01, 2025
  • 37 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 28 November

At the tippy top of my list for this week is the fact I’m sitting in the corner of my living room typing this post while my peripheral vision is studded with twinkle lights….

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  • Life
  • Nov, 28, 2025
  • 42 Comments

Ten Frugal (Christmas) Things Lately

*The header picture is an ornament John found for me at a thrift store last year. For years and years we’ve joked that my childhood Christmases resembled a Norman Rockwell painting (literally singing carols…

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  • Christmas, Frugality, Money
  • Nov, 26, 2025
  • 55 Comments

Our Marriage As a Venn Diagram: What Overlaps… and What Doesn’t!

Thankfully, on all the big things, John and I see eye to eye. But there are plenty of small things where we absolutely do not agree.

TEN AREAS WE AGREE TO DISAGREE

The best chocolate mint…

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  • Habits, Marriage, Personality Insights
  • Nov, 24, 2025
  • 52 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 21 November

Hi! I’m fine!! Everything is fine!!!

Life was just getting to be… a lot. It ended up feeling wonderful (and necessary) to take a few days “off” from blogging.

I continue to battle sleep issues which,…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Nov, 21, 2025
  • 43 Comments

Lather, Rinse, Repeat: Shower Habits

A random question for the interwebs.

When do you shower?

John recently came across a BBC article about the best time of day to shower. (According to experts, the “healthier” time appears to be the morning.)…

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  • Habits, Personality Insights, Random
  • Nov, 17, 2025
  • 65 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 14 November

Happy Friday, friends. Another week is in the rearview mirror and I am counting all my lucky stars that we didn’t get the amount of snow many parts of Canada and the US have…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Nov, 14, 2025
  • 40 Comments
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