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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

Top Five/Bottom Five: Frugal Choices

I love to save money for all sorts of reasons.

It’s satisfying. It feels like wise stewardship of our resources. And mostly because it frees up more money for things that matter to our family…

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  • Frugality, Money, Top Five/Bottom Five
  • Nov, 13, 2025
  • 30 Comments

Hello, New Friends (and Old Ones Too)

So… yesterday wasn’t supposed to be a blog doubleheader. I was as surprised as you might have been to wake up to two posts on my blog. Clearly, I wasn’t paying enough attention to…

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  • Ask Me (Almost) Anything, Blogging, Life, Personality Insights
  • Nov, 12, 2025
  • 31 Comments

Sprouted Planners x (Optimistic Musings + Best Laid Plans) = Planner Giveaway

I’ve teamed up with my friend — and planner extraordinaire — Sarah Hart-Unger of Best Laid Plans (the podcast) and Best Laid Plans Live (the in-person planning conference) and Best Laid Plans: A Simple…

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  • Giveaway!, Planning
  • Nov, 11, 2025

Ten Frugal Things Lately

ONE | I continue to buy reduced produce. I find arugula rarely goes slimy (unlike spinach). If spinach is on the cusp of turning slimy, I toss it into the freezer and use it…

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  • Frugality, Money
  • Nov, 11, 2025
  • 35 Comments

Cool Bloggers Walking Club: Final Walks + I Like To Map It, Map It

This is it, folks!! The final recap of our October 2025 walking club (for anyone counting, this is the fourth round of CBWC).

In a word, it’s been wonderful. There were days where I…

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  • Cool Bloggers Walking Club, Exercise
  • Nov, 10, 2025
  • 30 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 7 November

I had to go back and correct myself: I started drafting this post by writing 7 October. Just like that, a month of my life gone to the ether.

It is definitely feeling like November…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Nov, 07, 2025
  • 44 Comments
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