If you love minimal design, are looking to keep your holiday budget down, or want to avoid the waste of a Christmas tree, here is a great alternative to the norm.
DIY Detergent: Skip The Trial & Error With These 10 Helpful Tips
Making DIY detergent can be overwhelming as a newbie, but with a few pro tips you’ll be able to tackle the task with confidence.
20 Places to Clean to Make Your Home Sparkle
With the holiday season ahead of us, we’re all busy planning gifts, travel, meals, and decorating. And if you’re hosting, you have the additional task of cleaning your home. Having a home that sparkles at the holiday means going above and beyond the routine cleaning. Of course there’s the basic weekly cleaning routine — […]
100th Blog Post: Life & Lessons Learned Along the Way
Yay! Today is a cause for celebration! It’s my one hundredth blog post! I can’t believe I finally made it. So many bloggers that I know have long surpassed this milestone, but I try not to compare myself. It’s been a long road and there’s been a lot of of evolution. When I first started […]
5 Reasons Car Loans Are the Worst
I don’t know about you, but I hate paying bills. Forking over money to the metaphorical man is dreadful. We work hard! We deserve to keep it. Of course, I’m not insinuating that we don’t pay our bills. I’m very diligent about that. What I am talking about is loans — particularly car loans. Car […]
4 Ways Refinancing Can Work for You!
Hi, I’m Melissa, and I hope you’ll forgive me for deviating from my usual crunchy, crafty content, but I wanted to bring up something that I think is super important and that may be of benefit to my readers — refinancing. I know, super boring. But financial well-being is really important to me […]
Rain Garden 101: Budget & Eco-Friendly Landscaping
It’s spring! It’s spring! It’s finally spring! Hooray! I’m so excited for a new batch of yard projects this year. Last year, we moved to a new home and yard projects included the necessary fence for our dogs and a patio — big projects to help our yard fit our family. This year we get […]
6 Simple Ways to Support Your Favorite Non-Profit
Non-profits are struggling. Yes, many people and businesses are struggling right now, but those in the non-profit world are especially vulnerable. Many non-profits struggle with their bottom line. They’re scraping by with minimal staff, limited reserve, and they rely on the generosity of donors and successful programming and fundraisers for much of their operating […]
8 Totally Logical Reasons to Switch to a Menstrual Cup
I’m so glad you’re here! If you’re reading this it means that you’re probably looking into trying out a menstrual cup. I can’t even begin to tell you what a game changer it is. (For real! SO. AMAZING.) When I first got a menstrual cup, I was a little nervous. They seemed so daunting! […]
12 Savvy Ways to Cut Wedding Costs
Ah, weddings. A celebration of love and commitment, dedicating yourself to a future with another person, and making sure that everyone and their brother is there to witness it. Detecting some sarcasm? Yeah. Weddings aren’t really my thing, but hear me out: The wedding industry in America has become crazy. The average wedding costs $30,000. […]
