Trying to sell a home with kiddos? 7 tips keeping everyone happy

I’ve never been in the position to sell my home; we just bought for the first time 3 years ago, and have no plans on moving, but I’ve heard what difficulty it can be to sell. Here’s some tips from a reader on how to handle this stressful time with children. If you’re thinking about […]

Decluttering And Packing Up His Stuff

I mentioned a few months ago that Mike and I were in the process of getting divorced. It’s really been a huge upheaval in my life for more reasons than one, to put it lightly. Mike moved out a few months ago, but didn’t take more than the bare minimum with him, since his living […]

Boost Your Home’s Resale Value on the Cheap

I am so grateful to have been able to buy a house in a community I love that I have no plans on moving away from this place any time in the near future, if ever. But I do know, though, that many people are trying to sell their home, and in order to increase […]

Feeling A Bit Like A Fraud

For the past little bit I’ve been having this thought running through my head- that I’m not being the Penny I’ve always been. Since I started packing and preparing for our move, and since we’ve moved in, in many ways I feel like an impostor, a fraud, and just not myself. Why? Two months ago, […]

Almost All Moved In!

I want to apologize for my long absence from my blog! We got our keys to the brand new apartment that we bought while in the building stages on Monday morning, and by Monday evening we started moving in… Yes, started… I was hoping to have a great post to share with you about how […]

Moving Day!!

After a whole bunch of snafus, and lots of bureaucracies and technical issues… today I signed the final paperwork, and got handed the keys to our apartment! We are moving in today! Originally we were going to move in on Wednesday, but for a few reasons we decided to move today instead, so I’m finishing […]

Taking Advantage of Black Friday Sales

As an expat American married to a non American, I haven’t been doing much celebrating Thanksgiving, since it isn’t often done here, but some years I do go to Thanksgiving dinners with friends and family. This year I was invited to one, but wasn’t able to go because we’re busy packing up our house since […]

Frugality, Winter, Moving, Planning, My Book, and More

Packing has started! As I mentioned in my last post, on the 31st of October, my book was due for submission to the Back to Basics bundle. I was working crazy hours on it, staying up and out of my house working with my layout and graphics person, until the wee hours of the morning… […]

Working Hard on my Cookbook

I want to apologize for neglecting to post on the blog lately… I’ve literally been eating, sleeping and dreaming my foraging cookbook whose deadline is at the end of this month. I’ve been running on 4-6 hours of sleep a night so I can get this done… Of course I knew a while ago when […]

Exciting and Stressful News!

I’ve been sitting on this news until I found the right time to share it with you… I went to visit our house, the construction site, with a carpenter, who’ll be building some things for the apartment (more on that in a little bit). and on the way out, I passed the contractor and asked […]