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My hope is that this space serves YOU and helps to make your life feel a bit more elevated and a lot more joyful. I will be sharing simple recipes, affordable finds (and what to do with them), tips and tricks, our home (wherever the Air Force and life takes us), and a lot of joyful life in between.

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Weekly Shopping list and Menu
5/11/18

Another week, another menu and shopping list! As usual, most of the recipes are from Budget Bytes. Like I mentioned last week, don’t worry if you don’t have all of the ingredients to a T. Use what you’ve got. It’ll be great! On the Menu: Monday: Simple Mushroom Broccoli Stir Fry Noodles Tuesday:  Dorito Casserole + […]

Dinner Menu + Shopping List – Week 4

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Budgeting 101

How We Create a Budget

We are so excited to be finally sharing this post with you all! Since we started following Dave Ramsey’s teachings we’ve sworn by a budget. Having a budget has helped us tremendously, with and without debt. We know even the word ‘budget’ itself can sound pretty intimidating but we’re here to tell you that it […]

May 9, 2018

Lifestyle

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Gardening DIY

May 7, 2018

House + Home

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Weekend DIY Recap + This Week on the Blog

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a really great weekend! I’m back on here after another weekend of being social media free so I thought I’d share some of the projects we accomplished around the house these past couple of days. We worked for hours on Saturday getting our little garden set up in […]

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Menu and Shopping List 3
5/04/18

Happy Friday! Here is another menu and shopping list for the week. A little something that I want to talk about though before I get into this is shelf cooking. The term was coined by Jordan Page of funcheaporfree.com. She is a mother of 5 with another on the way and is the queen of […]

Dinner Menu + Shopping List – Week 3

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Why We Live on One Income

Why We Live on One Income – Our Biggest Financial Goal

A couple of days ago I mentioned in my stories that we’re currently living on one income. I suppose it was a cliff hanger of sorts. I really just wanted to save all of the details for this little blog of mine so I could fully explain why we’re living this way. We are DINKs […]

May 2, 2018

Lifestyle

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Menu and Shopping List 2

April 27, 2018

Recipe Box

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Dinner Menu + Shopping List – Week 2

Happy Friday! Here is the menu for the week and all of the ingredients you’ll need. Per usual, pretty much everything we have on the menu is from Budget Bytes. I don’t think that will be changing anytime soon… We just love these recipes so much and they’re of course super budget friendly. Her website […]

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Ask Jordan and Stephen
4/25/18

Happy Wednesday, friends! I’m sorry I’ve been a bit MIA this week. I’ve been working hard to complete some in-progress projects on the house this week. I’m hoping that I get at least one of them done tomorrow! Fingers crossed… Last week we did a giveaway on Instagram with three copies of “Total Money Makeover”. […]

Ask Jordan (and Stephen) – Money Mindset Round 2

Lifestyle

Budget Friendly Menu 1

Dinner Menu + Shopping List [with Free Printable!] Week 1

When I say that ideas are constantly flowing through my brain I’m not exaggerating. I have A LOT of ideas. It’s probably too many but hey, I can’t do anything about it other than shut my brain off for about 7 hours every night. ???? One of my little ideas that popped into my noggin […]

April 19, 2018

Recipe Box

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Financial Peace

April 18, 2018

Lifestyle

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The Four Money Buckets – From Stephen’s Perspective

When you think about how to spend your money what do you think about? Other than the necessities like food and your rent/mortgage and utilities, where can you put your money so that it will leave you feeling satisfied? Should it be used to buy things that you like, or to go somewhere and experience […]

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