Finance

I started to sell stickers about 8 months ago and I thought it was finally time to tackle how to make stickers to sell online in a blog post! (Quick update – I originally published this in 2021. It’s now 2024 and I’ve made some updates and am on the lookout for new vendors to […]

What have I been up to… well… partnering with my bestie for the expanded and awesome-r Women’s Personal Finance .org! TLDR: Go to the link above to track our progress and join the email list! My life, it is so cyclical.  It feels like I have nothing going on and then a tidal wave of

The last thing you ever want to be worrying about is, “where do I find cheap vets near me.” Whether it’s for routine preventative care like wellness checks, vaccinations, spay-neuter, or emergencies and surgeries, everyone wants access to the best low-cost veterinary care they can get for their companion-animal. When you are in the midst

I’m That Frugal Pharmacist, so clearly I should have some ideas about frugal living, right? 2020 has been a heck of a year for everyone. I’ve got two big tips to either make the most of your frugal muscle, or make some smart money moves and start maximizing your money. Clearly, you should be tracking

Welcome to side hustle city! That’s been my focus during my ongoing leave of absence due to Covid19. But, since my house is also paid off, I’m also trying to work on more income streams that may help me coast out of traditional employment and further into my semi retirement. It’s looking like I’m going

FinCon 2020 Live was cancelled, but FinConX still went on. Luckily, I actually paid attention to the emails and realized what was going on… the day before the event. I had been ignoring the emails for some reason. I don’t know why, because I was aware there was some kind of live web event that

You read that right. It happened. I am a net worth pandemic millionaire?!  HOW?  And during a pandemic? While I’m on unemployment?  I wasn’t expecting to become a millionaire in a pandemic, or anytime soon for that matter. This really goes to show the power of investments compounding.  It also shows the value of a

Remember that guest post I did on PrepperFI for TreadLightlyRetireEarly? With Coronavirus aka COVID-19 all over the news I thought I should revisit some aspects of our home preparedness and how we’re currently handling and feeling about likely pandemic.

Boy have I been itchin’ to blog lately! Except… I haven’t been. So I felt like it was time to talk a little bit about why I blog and why (and when) I don’t. Basically, it boils down to my needs, in combination with my priorities. In exploring my reasons, hopefully it will give you

I’m glad we have a paid off mortgage.   I am so glad I have a paid off mortgage, I decided to say it nearly three times. Since I’m not working, I don’t have any money coming in (except unemployment for a while).  I don’t have money going to retirement savings.  I don’t have money going

Here’s part 2 of my “Hawaii On The Cheap” series.  I’m detailing how we’re traveling affordably around the big island of Hawaii with a toddler for 3 weeks. It’s a really great travel destination for free activities.  Food is expensive, but we’re keeping costs (relatively) low by cooking most of our meals in our rental.

Guest Post alert on being a prepper/preparedness or what we’re calling #PrepperFI (thanks @Military_Dollar on Twitter for that one). I’m still on vacation but had the opportunity to write this post for Angela at Tread Lightly, Retire Early before I set off and it just dropped today. It’s part of her sustainability series, but it’s

I’m in the midst of my 22 night trip to the Big island of Hawaii on the cheap!  Being between jobs for 3 months now, we wanted to take a trip while I had an unprecedented amount of time off, even though I’m unemployment.  But we needed to keep it frugal.  FIRE principles at home

Here’s an overview of what I’ve been up to over the last week or two in developing side hustles, blog income and freelance work. Being off work is giving me some time to educate myself and try to develop some secondary income streams. I doubt any of this will pan out to keep me from