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Storytime: A Crazy Girls Trip to NYC & 5 Apps For New York Transportation
Last month, I took a short little girls trip to NYC with my best friend. While I was looking forward to the trip, I was dreading one major thing that makes me think twice about visiting New York City: Getting around / transportation. It seems like every time I visit, I encounter one public transportation nightmare or the other! There’s…
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How To Do San Diego On A Budget – From A Native San Diegan
When I tell people that I grew up in San Diego and call it home, they respond almost exactly like this every time: “It’s so beautiful there!” followed by “but it’s so expensive!”Every. Time. I’m not going to lie to you- San Diego deserves its reputation as an expensive city. Prices have definitely gone up over the years. However, it…
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Our Fireplace, Styled 4 Ways – Mantel Decor For Fall
K and I have a little house. I call it our ‘casita‘. We love it because it feels like just enough house for 2 people. On the other hand, it is small enough that you can’t full on decorate the living area without it looking cluttered. At least that’s the way it looks to me and I HATE the look…
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Tips From Above-Average Travelers: 28 MUST HAVE Travel Items
My favorite Facebook group is a community of wanderlusting, frequent flight-buying travel addicts. They talk about travel allll day and share all kinds of travel-related insider knowledge. You guys, the members of this group are real life TRAVEL BUFFS! To prove it, I polled the group to find out how many (longer than a weekend and non-work related) trips that…
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10 Family Meal Planning Hacks For Busy (or Lazy) People
When I was single, my meal planning consisted of making 2 medium-sized containers of food and happily eating from them ALL week. When I got married and became the primary cook for my husband and I, I encountered the shock of my life! This man was VACUUMING through our food!! The food that I thought could have lasted over a…
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International Trip Planning: 7 Checklist Items To Do Within 24 Hours Of Booking The Ticket
We’ve finally booked our annual family trip and I am so excited! I won’t reveal where we are going just yet but it is definitely one of our bucket list destinations. As you may remember from my post about visiting Paris for $1000 total, I am a huge fan of Scott’s Cheap Flights. For those that are not familiar, Scott’s…
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Why You Need A Home Filing System (+How To Make One)
I bet you thought you had a lot of paper clutter by yourself didn’t you? Now that you’ve started a family, are you drowning in paper yet?? I was! After spending more than one hour looking for our marriage certificate (which we had just received months prior), enough was enough for me. Husbae went out of town for a weekend…
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5 Affordable & Space Saving Patio Sets For Small Spaces
I can tell summer is finally here because I’ve already had multiple conversations about patio furniture. It’s pretty clear that everyone wants to be outside and soak up some sun (especially after that wretched winter). Well, at this stage of life, many of my friends happen to be living in smaller spaces. Whether it be an apartment or starter home,…
