Monthly Archive: January 2022

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Featured / Reader Case Studies

26 Jan, 2022

Reader Case Study: Screenwriter + Software Engineer + Baby in Munich, Germany

Jane and her husband Kurt live in Munich, Germany with their six-month-old son, Oskar. Jane works as a software engineer and Kurt is a screenwriter for a popular German television series. The couple love living in Munich, save one fact: Jane is American and her family all live across the pond. Thus, they’re contemplating a move to the Northeastern United States in order to be closer to Jane’s family, in particular, her parents with whom...

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Featured / Monthly Expense Reports

18 Jan, 2022

Chicken Feed And Other December 2021 Expenses

We’re building a garage! Well, we’re planning on building a garage. Longtime readers know that one of the downsides of our Vermont homestead is its lack of a garage. Why this place has no garage is a mystery for the ages. My family in California all have garages. My family in North Carolina all have garages. People in Florida have garages! But people in Vermont? Nope. It’s more common to NOT have a garage than...

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Reader Case Studies

6 Jan, 2022

Reader Case Study: Nursing Student by Day, Restaurant Worker by Night, Needing to Make Ends Meet

John is in his late twenties and lives in a small southern city in the US along with his cat. He recently made the decision to go back to school to become a nurse. Previously he worked at a nonprofit and, while he was passionate about the mission, the work/life balance wasn’t tenable for the long term. John started his nursing program this month and is also working front-of-house at a restaurant to try and...

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Uber Frugal Month

1 Jan, 2022

You Can Still Join the Uber Frugal Month Group Challenge!

Happy New Year and happy day one of the Uber Frugal Month Group Challenge! You can still join the group if you sign up in the box below by 11:59pm ET today (which would be Saturday, January 1, 2022). There’s a lot we can’t control about the New Year: what other people do, nature, our irrational love of Cheetos. One thing we CAN master is our money. We can be the big bosses of our...

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