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Frugal Things Lately: The Use It Up Edition

Hi, I’m Elisabeth, and I love to finish things.

Gretchen Rubin talks about “starters” and “finishers.” And while I love eating the first spoonful of peanut butter out of a jar (so does Indy!) or…

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  • Frugality
  • Mar, 02, 2026
  • 36 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 27 February

It’s Friday. Already? The days are evaporating and I’m of mixed opinion on the whole thing.

On the one hand, I feel like I might very literally go crazy from all the last-minute details…

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  • Life
  • Feb, 27, 2026
  • 58 Comments

My Hack for Picking Outfits for a Carry-On Only Trip

This is my process for choosing clothes to take for a carry-on-only trip. (We’ll be in Europe for 3.5 months—March through June—which means preparing for a pretty wide range of weather.)

Now, when I say…

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  • Organization, Personality Insights, Planning, Travel
  • Feb, 26, 2026
  • 38 Comments

Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #3

Is February zooming by for everyone else?? Just me? I know it’s a short month to begin with, but it feels like my life is currently on fast forward and I’ve lost the remote!

In…

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  • FIG Collective, Gratitude
  • Feb, 25, 2026
  • 29 Comments

A (Golden) Day in My Life: Friday, 20 February 2026

I haven’t done an A Day in My Life post in almost a year. Oops.

Technically, I didn’t set out to record this as an “official” Day in My Life, so timestamps are few…

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  • Life, Personality Insights, Random, Time Management
  • Feb, 24, 2026
  • 31 Comments

Schooling Without School: Help Me Pull Together a European Learning Plan!!

Today is all about crowd-sourcing. I need your help!

Two weeks from now, WE WILL BE IN EUROPE, which means the kids won’t be in traditional school for literal months! (Though with all the snow…

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  • Parenting, Travel
  • Feb, 23, 2026
  • 79 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 20 February

The crunch is on, friends. Two weeks from now is our final full day in Canada. Eeks! This is really happening.

I feel like I’m overloading everyone with with Happy Things/FIGs, so I’ll try…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Feb, 20, 2026
  • 45 Comments
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