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I managed to make $95 last week when I made a goal of making $100 extra money so that was pretty good. I sold a used gift card ($20), sold some baby stuff ($20), made some money on swagbucks that...

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Having a 5 year old can be really interesting these days. Cody thinks about the world now (he turns 5.5 tomorrow) and it’s really funny to hear what he comes up with. He absolutely LOVES school a...

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As usual, I don’t have a lot of extra money at the moment so I’m making a goal to sell stuff and make $100 minimum this week. I have a bunch of things to sell I haven’t put up for sale yet so hop...

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I have been meaning to write an entry for so long but never quite made it back here. The kids keep me so busy and sometimes Miles and Summer don’t nap at the same time and in the evening my husba...

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I’ve been spending 2 hours a day lately on the Swagbucks website because I am trying to earn as many gift cards as possible so we have less to spend ourselves on Christmas gifts. It can be annoyi...

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I forgot how much more there is to do when your baby starts eating food lol. The last thing I need is more things to do! I’ve been doing baby led weaning with Summer so I’ll make her a scrambled ...

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Oh wow. As if it’s been 2 weeks since my last entry lol. Ok well I won second place in the weight loss competition, which was $72 so that was pretty cool. I lost 9.5% of my weight in the 8 weeks ...

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I had my final weigh in this morning of round 2 of our 8 week challenge! I had a salad for dinner yesterday and no night time snacks in preparation.... while Mike ate halloween candy right in fro...

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I’m so tired of stressing about money but I have no choice. When I was working, I used to make $1050 every two weeks. Now, on maternity leave, I make $732 every two weeks. Which rarely ever cover...

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I had my second last weigh in this morning. So as of week 7 I am 171lbs for a loss this week of 1.4lbs. Which sounds pretty sucky to me actually because I worked my butt off this week between str...

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I just spent 2 hours fiddling with my medela swing breast pump to get the suction to start working better and I don’t even know what I did but I finally got it working. I pumped an ounce or so ju...

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Summer woke at 4am this morning for a feeding and took forever to get back to sleep rocking her in the rocking chair afterwards. Maybe I’m picky but I do NOT get my babies up and downstairs until...

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My parents are gone :( And now we won’t see them for 50 days. Which is like a lifetime away. They return December 13th which is also the day Summer turns 8 months. Man that sounds old! Babies sur...

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I made about $90 last week selling more stuff online (yes I do this endlessly lol) and I was able to scrounge up enough for all of our bills. I normally have enough money for all of our bills but...

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I had weigh in number 5 today from my 2nd weight loss challenge and I weighed in at 174! That’s some kind of miracle (lost 2.8lbs since last week) since on Saturday my family had Thanksgiving din...

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Mike and I both get paid every 2 weeks so I pay our bills every 2 weeks according to what is due in that period of time. Next weekend is when I need to pay the next set since we both get paid nex...

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I think I finally ran out of stuff in the house to sell. For now lol. I have 72 posts of stuff for sale on my local buy and sell facebook page and every once in a while someone messages me about ...

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I’ve been spending some time lately prepping and posting stuff around our house for sale on my local buy and sell facebook page. I mostly do it when Summer is napping. It astounds me thkindI am c...

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So I got to strollerfit yesterday at 11 with the kids and it was only me and one other lady! And the instructor is my same instructor from mom/baby aquafit. I had to work hard since there was jus...

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I did finally end up getting some coffee on Monday when I was super tired. My mom invited us over and my dad has like 20 bags of keurig coffee so I was set. My body was weird that day though and ...

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This morning was weigh in number 2 and I’m down another 3lbs this week so I’m at 180.4lbs now. Should definitely be in the 170’s next week and only 0.4lbs away from my pre-pregnancy weight which ...

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So, me and the ladies from my April 2016 birth group started round 2 of the weight loss challenge. A ton of other ladies wanted in because they saw a lot of us managed to lose weight so while the...

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Sometimes I get the urge to do strange things. Like only buy the absolute necessities on grocery shopping day (milk/eggs/bread etc) to save money and then be forced to be creative with meals and ...

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When I’m interested in a topic, I go to the library and get as many books about it as possible. I read some of them, skim others and sometimes even go back and get more books on the topic. Lately...

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The Jamberry wraps I put on ebay did really well! I had them up for a week auction and every day I’d check how the bids were going and I ended up making $290! I was definitely happy with that con...

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