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Tis The Season…

July 13, 2022 Of rummage sales! When we bought our house three years ago, it was in the early days of a wild housing market, and the process was not for the faint of heart. We only had 2.5 months to look for a house and our nights and weekends were filled with looking at new listings online and going to see one after another with our optimistic and fabulous realtor (if you are in the Milwaukee area and need a reference, let me know!). For the house we ended up buying, we beat out 10 initial offers and four counteroffers, all thanks to what the sellers called our “magical offer letter.” They called it “magical” because they used our template as their guide for the letter which accompanied the next offer they put in on a house and ended up getting.Long story short, the housing market was (and still sort of is) crazy and we didn’t have much time to pack our individual apartments to move into this house together. Thus, we came with many multiples of things and have slowly been trying to rid of duplicates. Just like we are working on minimizing our spending, we also are also working on minimizing the items in the house. To fast track that, our neighborhood is holding a rummage sale at the end of this month which we will be participating in. 
To prepare, we started by going through each of the rooms in the house to see what items we no longer need or don’t use. Seems easy, right? It has been, but that’s because we’ve been avoiding the basement.  The basement is where we’ve stashed our merging household duplicates, Amazon returns we missed the window on and items from the houses of loved ones who passed away in the recent years. But just like we cannot ignore the frivolous spending when we meet with our financial coach, we cannot ignore the callings of the basement. As singer-song writer Roseanne Cash said, “The key to change…is to let go of fear.”, and that we are doing. As neither of us have held a rummage sale before, we’re not sure what to expect; but we’ll call it a ‘win’ if we earn $50. $50 is not much, but it would be $50 more than we had and will go towards the vacation fund for the couple of trips we have coming up this year. If you have any tips to make a rummage sale successful, we would love to hear them! You might also be interested in Whew and wow! This has been quite a challenging and eye-opening process! It has been very hard to do this project as part of a couple when both of us appear... During the week of November 23, we wrote about how we were going to look into options for cost-saving measures. One of those measures was to analyze any... This past weekend, we took our annual trip down to Chicago, which was also paired with a trip to the theater. With being in Project Money, have been more... Something that stands out lately are the number of outlets competing for one’s time, attention, and especially our hard earned money. I don’t know about... If it wasn't so cold out right now, we might not believe that the end of the year is fast approaching, but alas – it is! With that, we have been starting... Initially, we weren’t sure exactly what to write about for this week’s blog post. However, the subject came to us this past weekend as we were reviewing... Many of us enjoy hosting parties with friends and family for seasonal activities and Holidays but don’t want to break the bank doing so! For me and Krystal... I don't know about you, but I, Krystal, grew up in a pretty cold house during winter. We lived in a rural-ish area where natural gas did not run, thus... One thing we’re still working through is being a bit more proactive about unexpected house costs. Sure, we have small savings account for house expenses...