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Our Baby is Beginning To Cost A Bit More!

By Marianne On May 9, 2012 · 8 Comments · In about us, baby on a budget, workplace
My baby starts daycare this morning. I have been trying to get him excited about going to school! He will be visiting for one hour this morning, two hours tomorrow morning and three hours the following morning.  The week after that, assuming all goes well, he will go for four 5-hour mornings. Up until now, [...]
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New Posting Schedule and Other Business

By Marianne On May 7, 2012 · 3 Comments · In about us
Thanks so much for your kind words and suggestions over the last week.  It’s been a real whirlwind around here. I was able to visit my mom this past weekend and after her turn for the worse last week, she’s looking a bit better. This means that instead of days/ weeks, she maybe has month(s).  [...]
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Thoughts On Cancer

By Marianne On May 3, 2012 · 5 Comments · In about us, Uncategorized
My mom has cancer. This is nothing new. I think it’s been about 3 years since she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer- maybe 3 and a half years. I’m not sure what stage it was in when she was diagnosed, just that it was advanced and while they were able to remove a large 6lb [...]
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Good News That I Don’t Feel All That Great About…

By Marianne On April 30, 2012 · 9 Comments · In financial freedom, workplace
Last week, I spoke about the promotion my husband just got.  While all that was going on for him, there was a whole lot going on in the background for myself at work (we work at the same company). I manage a shipping and receiving department with two other full time staff members and several [...]
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Solar Panels: Good Deal or Not?

By Marianne On April 27, 2012 · 7 Comments · In earning extra money, financial freedom, home ownership, renovations, slashing expenses
My husband and I have been very interested in solar energy for some time now.  Our dream home would be as ‘off grid’ as we could comfortably make it and solar power would probably be a big part of this.  In our case, we don’t have much in the way of green living ideals but [...]
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How To Eat Out for Free (Or Close To It)

By Marianne On April 25, 2012 · 6 Comments · In frugal food, frugality, slashing expenses
When we first started hanging out with our current group of friends, they used to have a weekly wing night.  We joined them a few times but our food/ entertainment budget didn’t support the weekly frequency of these outings and we had to opt out most of the time.  Two of the friends then began [...]
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Big News; Guess Who Got A Promotion?!

By Marianne On April 24, 2012 · 8 Comments · In about us, earning extra money, financial freedom, workplace
Since I know you have all been at the edge of your computer desk chairs all weekend waiting for my exciting news, I figured I’d better make this announcement as soon as I could.  Sorry it had to wait till today- we had to wait until it was announced at our company because… My husband [...]
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Glad To Be Back!

By Marianne On April 23, 2012 · 4 Comments · In cutting costs, financial freedom, frugality, saving money, slashing expenses
So sorry for the silence last week everyone.  As I shared in my post about lowering my phone and internet bill, we spent a week without home phone or internet (except for our cell phones) and it was pretty difficult for us! It is a bit embarrassing how much we depend on our internet connection [...]
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Update

By Marianne On April 20, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized
Happy to say that we have home phone and internet again! So relieved that the problem is fixed and life can get back to normal! Back to regular blogging next week and not a moment too soon as I’ve got exciting news to share!
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Slashing Expenses: Lowering Our Phone and Internet Bills- The Saga Continues

By Marianne On April 17, 2012 · 8 Comments · In budgeting, cutting costs, financial freedom, frugality, slashing expenses, Uncategorized
In order to reach our goal of financial freedom, we are increasing income and slashing our expenses.  We will be sharing ways that we’ve successfully decreased our monthly expenses in order to help you cut your own costs.  It seems that my frugal ways have finally gotten the best of me. We are living in [...]
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How I Avoid Jonesing For My Friends’ Stuff

By Marianne On April 13, 2012 · 5 Comments · In about us, financial freedom, frugality, getting out of debt
When my husband and I first moved here (the big city…) we had a hard time adjusting. We were very young (20) and engaged (getting married later that year) and had already been living on our own (together) for quite some time. We had decent jobs but definitely struggled to balance our bills with our [...]
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Overwhelmed

By Marianne On April 12, 2012 · 9 Comments · In about us, workplace
Forgive me for the lack of a better post today. I have to admit that I am feeling more than a little overwhelmed. I have only started back at work three mornings a week but it has really gotten the best of me! My brain feels all muddled and I can’t seem to get anything [...]
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Financial Housekeeping: Checking our Credit Report

By Marianne On April 11, 2012 · 1 Comment · In financial freedom, financial planning, getting out of debt
It seems like I’ve read the suggestion a million times all over the personal finance blogosphere- check your credit report! In fact, according to these million bloggers, I should be checking it three or four times a year. I thought this was great advice. I understood the importance of it and I absolutely planned to [...]
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Networth: April 2012

By Marianne On April 10, 2012 · 4 Comments · In financial planning, networth
Earlier this year, I posted about my Financial Goals for 2012. One of the goals that I posted was that I’d like to increase our networth to $85,000.  I only began tracking our networth about 9 months ago or so and haven’t been doing it monthly, I’ve only tallied it up a couple of times. [...]
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Slashing Expenses: Cheap Entertainment in Our Home

By Marianne On April 9, 2012 · 8 Comments · In about us, cutting costs, financial freedom, frugality, saving money, slashing expenses
In order to reach our goal of financial freedom, we are increasing income and slashing our expenses.  We will be sharing ways that we’ve successfully decreased our expenses in order to help you cut your own costs. Entertainment is one area in which we’ve never spent a lot of money (unless you count dining out… [...]
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Link Love: Good Friday Edition

By Marianne On April 6, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Link Love
Happy Easter everyone! Today’s a holiday so I decided to take the day off. Here are some posts I’ve enjoyed reading over the last couple of weeks: Quit Being a Girl! « Stacking Pennies - I stumbled upon this post this past week and I could really identify with it! I definitely still think of [...]
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How We Earn Extra Money: Buying Silver Coins

By Marianne On April 5, 2012 · 8 Comments · In about us, earning extra money
I recently mentioned that we are saving up for a new vehicle despite having no extra room in our budget. We have managed to save up about $3000 towards this by finding ways to earn extra income aside from our regular paycheques. This is one of the ways we’ve been earning extra money! You can [...]
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Slashing Expenses: Cutting our Natural Gas Bill

By Marianne On April 4, 2012 · 7 Comments · In cutting costs, frugality, home ownership, slashing expenses
In order to reach our goal of financial freedom, we are increasing income and slashing our expenses.  We will be sharing ways that we’ve successfully decreased our expenses in order to help you cut your own costs. I just received our gas bill for the month and was absolutely shocked to owe $40 less than [...]
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Open An RESP- Check!

By Marianne On April 3, 2012 · 8 Comments · In baby on a budget, financial planning, saving money
As you may or may not have noticed, I updated the chart for one of our 2012 Financial Goals.  We met with our financial advisor last week and put $1000 into an RESP for our son. I’ve shared how we save up our son’s money and the $1000 that we put in came entirely from [...]
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March Budget, Food Update & Giveaway Winner!!

By Marianne On April 2, 2012 · 9 Comments · In about us, budgeting, financial planning
I’m happy to say that March is over.  Our March food diet ended up being tougher than I thought.  When I challenged myself to spend less on food, I foolishly overlooked a few March happenings. Mainly, there was a motorcycle trade show in the middle of the month. Trade shows create a huge food expense [...]
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