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Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

December 31, 2016by Gina Leave a comment

The day after Christmas, my phone screen slowly faded away to black. Broken. I decided I wasn’t in a rush to get a new one. It was break; nothing urgent […]

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Baking, Budget, Food, Holiday, Kids

Christmas Simplicity

December 10, 2016by Gina 2 Comments

It’s coming on Christmas, and I wish I had a river I could skate away on, but I don’t so… I’m trying to keep things simple. When people have asked […]

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Baking, Budget, Cooking, Downtown, Food, Frugality, Green Living, Holiday, Kids

Life Is a Highway

November 7, 2016by Gina Leave a comment

I’ve been thinking a lot about either getting rid of my car completely, or downsizing to something smaller with a smaller payment, or none at all. The reason we have […]

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Budget, Cooking, Food, Frugality, Gardening, Green Living, Kids

Soggy May Days

May 15, 2016by Gina Leave a comment

It’s raining, again. Luckily, the rain held off most of today, and we were able to go to the farmers’ market and the playground, and I got a lot of […]

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Downtown, Food, Frugality, Gardening

No-Spend September; Out-of-Pocket October

October 2, 2014by Gina Leave a comment

Limping across the finish line into October after my no-spend September. We ended up with a small surplus, about $270, plus the enforced, automatic transfer to savings of $300. So […]

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Frugality, the Compact

Green Mountain State of Mind

August 12, 2014by Gina 2 Comments

I wish I had posted during my week in Vermont last week, so that I could have a real-time record of how happy I was there. Whatever I write now […]

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Books to Read, Cooking, Downtown, Food, Frugality, Green Living, Houses, Kids

Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose

June 24, 2014by Gina Leave a comment

Wins and losses from the past few days… Win: My dear friend KF saw on this blog that I was looking for a full bed for my middle son. She […]

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Frugality, Kids, the Compact

Commencement

June 17, 2014by Gina Leave a comment

I bet you never heard this before in your whole life, but commencement means “beginning,” not “end.” We have a lot of endings/beginnings going on around here. Saturday was the […]

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Books to Read, Food, Kids

Westmont Farmers’ Market

June 12, 2014by Gina 2 Comments

Yesterday I decided to take the kids, after school, to the farmers’ market held by the next town over. It’s every Wednesday from 4-7 pm but I had never been […]

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Downtown, Food, Frugality, Green Living, Kids

My Silent Partner

June 12, 2014by Gina 3 Comments

There is a aspect of my attempts to follow the Compact and be more of a nonconsumer that I haven’t talked too much about. Namely, my husband. I wanted to […]

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Frugality, Green Living, Houses, Philosophy, the Compact

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