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Our 10 Year Home Improvement Plan
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Our 10 Year Home Improvement Plan

December 28, 2022
This post contains affiliate links.  When we bought our house in Arizona, we chose one that needed some cosmetic updates and some mechanical updates because it was 14 years old when we purchased it.  When we sold it, we made a nice profit,...
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Our First Two Months in New York

October 5, 2022 in family, Featured, home ownership
This post contains affiliate links.  We’ve been in New York two months now, and I can say this has been a much harder move than our move to Arizona.  There are several reasons for this, including that...
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Our Master Bathroom Makeover Part One

December 30, 2021 in Featured, home ownership
Our master bathroom was tired.  The shower leaked behind a wall about five years ago, and we had to spend a fortune in mold remediation.  This year, we noticed that the shower door did not seal well...
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How to Get the Best Deal on Your Home Loan

August 2, 2012 in home ownership
Are you in the housing market yet?  We are interested in buying a house within the next two or three years, but we have already begun laying the groundwork for getting the best deal we can find. ...
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Is Your Vision of How It Is Supposed to Be Affecting Your Happiness?

July 2, 2012 in home ownership, on wanting, Uncategorized
Lately, I have been discontent.  While we are making great strides financially from where we were a year ago at this time, I still feel...
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Considerations When Working Overseas or Across State Lines – A Guest Post

March 13, 2012 in employment, guest post, home ownership
“We’re moving to Paris!” my old college friend, Nicole, announced via email. I was in shock. After all, Paris was a good 5,000 miles – as the...
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5 Ways We Plan to Use Our Tax Return To Help Our Bottom Line

March 22, 2011 in Budget, education, home ownership, retirement, saving, tax refund
My husband and I get a sizeable tax return each year because we have three children and don’t currently have a great income.  (I do look forward to the day when we get a much smaller tax...
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Only Judge Your Financial Progress Against Yourself

February 23, 2011 in Earn Money, home ownership, on wanting, saving
The author of one personal finance blog I read paid 100% cash for her house.  Another managed to pay her house off years early; she is 31 and owns her home outright.  Me and my husband?  We...
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What Motivates the Money Pushers

January 13, 2011 in home ownership, wasting money
If you have ever lost a significant amount of weight, you may know about the food pushers.  Those people who say, “You’re so thin; you have to eat!” or “Just try one bite of this.  One little...
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Why We Have Not Purchased A Home–Yet

August 12, 2010 in home ownership, SAHM, saving
My husband and I moved to our current apartment 10 years ago. At the time, we naively thought we would be here for one year. Then my husband began his combined M.A./Ph.D. program, and a few years...
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