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One of the perks of doing this monthly roundup is realizing that I’ve been doing a whole lot of new baking recipes, but almost no new cooking recipes in several months. I was compiling this list right around the time we meal planned for the week, so it spurred me to put a new recipe…
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So much for a Santa Rally! I suppose asking for a rally after a 24% YTD gain is pretty greedy, but it was still not the way I think most of us were hoping the end of the year would go. I’m still pondering how to organize the first full year of detailed expense-tracking I’ve…
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It’s that time of year again! We’ve made it to the end of the calendar year and past the cut-off date for the 12/31 paycheck (well, I have, at least – ymmv) and so it’s time to adjust our retirement contributions to reflect 2025’s new maximums. I know I am not alone in being a…
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This trip was kind of a fun trip from a costs perspective, because I am a person who is perhaps bizarrely tickled by being able to get things for a discount or free. With my Alaska Airlines Visa, I get a yearly companion fare, and this was my first time using that benefit since I…
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Holiday baking dominated this month, though I found one new recipe to work into the repeats we found ourselves eating. I really love Thanksgiving, not actually because of the holiday itself or anything it specifically represents, but because I really love cooking an absolute ton of food and watching people enjoy eating it. I found…
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I had to double-check my numbers when updating my spreadsheet’s line item for my husband’s IRA – did it really increase by almost $3k in one month? It did, which was only shocking because I had forgotten how low the end of the previous month had ended. $2716 increase on a mid five figure balance…
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Last spring, my husband approached me and asked, “Would you rather go to Cleveland or Pittsburgh?” One of his favorite bands, Opeth, was going on tour, but wasn’t going to be coming to the west coast at all for the tour. Since we visited Cincinnati last fall and I hadn’t yet been to Pennsylvania, I…
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Another month of mostly new bread recipes. I promise I will eventually get off this bread kick and back to experimenting with more non-baking recipes, but for now, I’m really enjoying being able to provide fresh bread for my family each week. I’m also on a mission to perfect the cinnamon swirl sourdough loaf from…
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Well, the tide has receded from the high water mark of earlier this month (at its peak, I think our invested assets reached $1.08MM) and we’re back under a million in invested assets again. This leaves us open to celebrating a second (or third! or fourth!) time as we cross over that number, so it’s…
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For my third quarter 10k (remembering that one of my New Year’s resolutions was to run an organized 10k every quarter), I had to sort of stretch the definition of Q3. We had a lot of travel during the summer, so while I technically should have run this race in July, August, or September, I’m…
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