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I thought I would share our expenses for the month of September to give you an idea of the cost of living in the Philippines. We don’t pay rent, but our property requires a lot of maintenance and a full-time maintenance person, with an occasional construction staff, because we have to manage our own water from […]

My husband and I made a huge decision last October…we sold our house and moved into an apartment. One last look at the house we loved and lived in for six years. If you live in the Midwest, you might think we’re crazy. Where we live in the suburbs outside Kansas City, having a large […]

I am not one of those people who thinks it is tacky to talk about money. So when Mrs. Bee suggested a week or month long spending and budget post, I thought it was a great idea. I tracked our spending during a typical week and also added in our monthly budget. I love seeing […]

I have written several posts about my financial goals for 2017, which I broke down with specific goals for each month of the year. Overall, the goal is to give myself a healthier relationship to money, and to reduce our spending and consumption as a family. In order to keep myself accountable, I’m recapping how […]

You may remember a while ago I posted about a potential strategy that Mr. Cotton Candy and I were considering to allow me to take some time off when baby #2 is born. To recap, because I’m a freelancer, I don’t have a built-in maternity leave, so we had to get a bit creative in […]

I bought Charlie this bank when he was 5 years old to start giving him an allowance and teaching him about saving, spending and donating. That got put on hold when we moved to the Philippines because there wasn’t very much he could buy here and we were busy settling in. Recently he was out […]

I have written several posts about my financial goals for 2017, which I broke down with specific goals for each month of the year. Overall, the goal is to give myself a healthier relationship to money, and to reduce our spending and consumption as a family. January: Retail Detox The goal for January was a […]