I ask this as an honest question, because it’s seeming to me like maybe the answer is yes. I starting pondering this topic after we left a nice dinner party (full of other couples about our age and in similar stages of life) and my husband said: “I think we were the only people in …
We were able to score the following flights for super cheap this summer (with first class tickets roundtrip on the PHX-SEA portion): In case you can’t see that image, our summer will include flights between FLG, PHX, ORD, YVR, and SEA – basically a giant triangle around the U.S. mainland with a little taste of …
The short answer is that he doesn’t need one. Let’s unpack that statement with some frequently asked questions that we get on this subject. Are you super old and out of touch? Depends who you ask, I guess. We’re both at the upper end of the Millennial generation. We both have smartphones and various social …
As you may already know, we got a quite a few awesome questions after sharing some details on the oh-so-taboo topics of our personal finances. You can click here for all the “money” posts (haha). If you don’t want to read any of that but need a quick re-hash: we spent less than $80k in …
Wow, those last couple posts about money brought a few haters out of the woodwork! In case you missed them, I’m talking about the post sharing our family’s spending in 2018 and the post about paying off my student loans. I got a bunch of readers who were super supportive and enthusiastic, which was unexpected …
Last month was our second trip to Hawaii as a family of 4! We are two adults, one 12 year-old, and one 21 month-old (who completed his 27th flight as a “lap baby” on this trip).
In February of this year, I made some calls to the lovely folks at the Department of Education and Student Aid and confirmed that from 2005 to 2013 I took out almost $350,000 IN STUDENT LOANS! A Brief History of My Loans The exact total amount of money I borrowed for school – including tuition, …
My husband and I are now on our 18th winter of driving non-fancy 2WD cars in snowy climates. Locations we’ve driven said cars during winter include most of Colorado, Chicago and other “lake effect snow” parts of the Midwest, and our current mountainous hometown, which averages 100 inches of snow per year in town (double …
As you may have picked up from some of our previous posts, we like a good adventure. We realize they’re not all winners, and in fact some of them are solidly in the “once was enough” category, but we like to feel like we’re doing stuff. We also realize that being bored is a first-world …
We’ve been able to fly Hawaiian Airlines quite a few times – domestically and internationally, economy and first class – but it’s only in the last 12 months that we’ve flown HA with the kids. The first trip to Hawaii with the kids was a wonderful week in Maui March of 2018, when Baby J …