Frugalwoods - Financial independence and simple living

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Merry Pandemic Holidays!!!! We re ready to celebrate how much we love our families by . not seeing them!!! This holiday season will be different, but no less merry and jolly. Primarily I will achieve this by making as many desserts as I d make if we were hosting 15 people. Since there are four of us x 1 pandemic x no childcare for 9 months, I feel the math is going to work out well. Also, going to You might ve thought I forgot about the Uber Frugal Month and that would be totally justified because I DID forget about it in July. But NEVER AGAIN. You frugal mavens aren t going to ring in 2021 alone you re going to do it WITH MEEEEEEE and thousands of other Uberly Frugal folks. The Uber Frugal Month is a thing I made up back in 2016 that has since become world-famous. Ok, slow down there, Mrs. Frugalwoods, let s Let there be LIGHT!!!! I ve surrendered all restraint and decorum with regard to Christmas decorations. This year, we are lit. It s dark, it s cold, there s nowhere to go and so I transformed the interior of our house into a beacon of light/some might call it tacky. Up to this point, we ve used hand-me-down and garage-sale-purchased strands of Christmas lights which, while cheap at the outset, were not cheap from an energy use perspective. This year, June and Daniel are young professionals living the DINK (dual income; no kids) life in Chicago. While they re grateful for the higher salaries the city offers, they re not loving the urban hustle. They have a number of near-terms goals, including celebrating their wedding, gender confirmation surgery for Daniel, buying their own home and eventually, achieving financial independence. But given the pandemic and their uncertainty about staying in Chicago, they re not sure when any of these The FINAL month of 2020 was one of gift-buying, food-buying, and tractor repair parts-buying. Also dryer parts. Plus liquor. And some beer. According to our expenses, we were either: a) giving gifts; b) eating and drinking; and/or c) repairing stuff. Sounds about right. A Festive At-Home Christmas We celebrated a quiet, lovely little Christmas at home with just us four. It was sweet, inexpensive and un-stressful. We might do this every year. Our church held It s 2021, baby!!! 2020 that miscreant of a year is gone. Today we begin the brave new adventure of a wholly transformed life. JK. Life looks exactly the same. BUT, you can start the year off right with the Uber Frugal Month Group Challenge. If you sign-up today (by 11:59pm EST on Friday, January 1, 2021), you ll be part of the infamous UFM Group Challenge. What makes it a group? Because I SAY it s a group. Actually, Nici lives on the West Coast with her cat and works as a journalist. She loves her job and her 20-year-old Mustang but doesn t make a lot of money. She prefers renting an apartment over owning a house, but is concerned about future rent increases and what they might do to her retirement plans. She d like our help today assessing her financial position as well as our advice on whether or not it s time to put her October AND November 2020 Oh yes, you get a double dose of homesteading because I neglected/forgot to write this up last month. But who even noticed?! It s a pandemic! We had an election! This Month On The Homestead s timeliness does not rate. Fall in Vermont blows in with intention. No balmy leaf-crunchers here, fall is a rapid descent to winter. In a year that’s felt like a decade, November alone spanned several years. Wood Stacking: Anne and her husband Michael live in rural Colorado where, until the pandemic, they worked as behavioral therapists for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Now, they re on voluntary unpaid furlough and requesting our help deciding what to do next. They recently sold their behavioral therapy practice, have a five-acre homestead with dogs and farm animals and are wondering if now s the time to transition to full-time homesteading. What’s a Reader Case Study? Case Studies The pandemic, the election, rising Covid cases and deaths, intonations of entering a dark winter shall we talk about that today? Nah. In a world that s (potentially) spiraling out of control, let s focus on the things we can control. I can t control politics, I can t control the coronavirus, I can t control what other people do or don t do. All I can control is myself (and my success rate there is only about 60%). I ve known September 2020 Our pumpkin crop is in! We (by which I mean I) harvested, rinsed, dried, and carried all the pumpkins from the patch to the house in mid-September. Started from seed in our kitchen last March, our pumpkins thrived and were somehow not eaten by a varmint. I now have pumpkins on every windowsill, each table, in all rooms (bathrooms included) and I am NOT SORRY. I love me a good pumpkin and the fact that Lily and her husband Robert are in their late 60s, have been married for 40 years, and planned to retire to a life of travel in 2022. Lily and Robert paid off nearly half a million dollars of debt in their late 50s and since then, have put themselves in a fabulous financial position. However, the pandemic has them questioning their readiness for this move. They d like our help today determining what to do if Lily I m convinced that large appliances are in league against humans. This month we had to replace our dishwasher and our TV and this is not the first time we ve had a confluence of such events. Revenge of the Appliances hit back in 2016 when our oven, refrigerator and closet door all broke in the same month. Are these coincidences? Or are they evidence of the tenuous hold we have on our modern world? Whatever the Disclaimer Frugalwoods is for informational and entertainment purposes only. We are not financial professionals and, in fact, some of our posts are written by a dog. Seek out a professional for financial advice.  See here for our disclosures around credit cards. Affiliate Info Frugalwoods sometimes publishes affiliate endorsements and advertisements, which means that if you click on a link and buy something, Frugalwoods might receive a percentage of the sale, at no extra cost to you. We only write about, and promote, products that we believe in. We promise not to tell you about stuff that's dumb.

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