Month: May 2021

Living As A One Car Family

If someone were going to ask me, what is the most unusual thing you did that helped you get ahead financially? I suspect that my best answer would be, living as a one car family.

Over the past week, I had to deal with some of the inconveniences of having just one car in the family, as Mr. PiN took ours out of state to help with a family emergency. [This might be why this post is coming out a week later than expected.]

I thought it would be worthwhile to go through the many ways in which this one-car situation has overall yielded great benefits, while acknowledging that sometimes it is not ideal.

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Fitness Log #136 And Friday Firsts

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for over 2 years, and plan to continue doing so.

I started the Friday Firsts sections as a way of keeping track of some of my “firsts” as I dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Things seem to be settling down, but I will keep it for now–more as a way to be aware and thankful of what is happening in my life.

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Fitness Log #135 And Friday Firsts

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for over 2 years, and plan to continue doing so.

I started the Friday Firsts sections as a way of keeping track of some of my “firsts” as I dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Things seem to be settling down, but I will keep it for now–more as a way to be aware and thankful of what is happening in my life.

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Monday Melange, May 2021

Lately, the PiN household has joined the modern, electronically connected world. By that, I mean, I have started forwarding articles to Mr. PiN that I think he would enjoy. Or that I want him to do something about.

I thought I might share some of the articles that I thought interesting enough to forward. After going through all the links, I will concentrate on the personal finance and travel-related articles I sent in the past year.

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Fitness Log #134 And Friday Firsts

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for over 2 years, and plan to continue doing so.

I started the Friday Firsts sections as a way of keeping track of some of my “firsts” as I dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Things seem to be settling down, but I will keep it for now–more as a way to be aware and thankful of what is happening in my life.

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Making A Bed You Want To Lie In

Right now, I love my bed.

There is little I enjoy more during the 5,000th day at home, than sliding into my collection of freshly cleaned sheets, deluxe pillows with just the right degree of softness, and my personal comforter.

Before the pandemic, Mr. PiN and I would sometimes consider the merits of going away for the weekend, and decide to stay home because our house, mostly our bed, was just too luxurious to leave. Now that we cannot leave, we are very happy to have the current sleeping set-up already arranged.

However, I was not planning to write a whole post about how lovely the bed is. More, I was thinking about the financial issues that affected how we built this treat we get to enjoy nightly.

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Fitness Log #133 And Friday Firsts

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for over 2 years, and plan to continue doing so.

I started the Friday Firsts sections as a way of keeping track of some of my “firsts” as I dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Things seem to be settling down, but I will keep it for now–more as a way to be aware and thankful of what is happening in my life.

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