Author: Sally

I tried many times to talk about the importance of my indoor comfort, but she never seemed to meet my expectations when it came to setting the thermostat. When people ask me what happened in my last relationship, I’m not sure what to tell them. I want to believe that it was a mutual problem […]

I think people really overemphasize how wonderful it is to be “privileged” around here sometimes. There’s so much societal guilt for having things handed to you on a silver platter… but no one ever really talks about the fact that this can massively hold you back in life, too. For instance, when you get a […]

I dislike making sweeping statements because they tend to come back to haunt me. Sometimes, I can overstate something as being miraculous when it truly isn’t. That’s why I hesitate when describing how much better our indoor air is thanks to purification, but I love the air inside my home now! That hasn’t been the […]

I’m trying my best to get better when it comes to getting things done around the house. This doesn’t come naturally for me, which is a shame because I grew up in an environment in which I could learn to be thrifty. My dad could fix just about anything around the house. He never fooled […]

Last year, we had to do some creative budgeting. Reducing our spending and living more frugally was a necessity. The cause of our financial straits was the pandemic. Straits isn’t the best term, because my wife and I still had our jobs and schooling. Without our jobs – we were working from home – we […]