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Five Frugal Things

October 25, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

We are officially out of foreclosure now. Hallelujah! And I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. I can’t speak for everyone else who has been in our shoes, but I  can say for sure that the last four years were eye opening for me, and they seriously changed me. I am certainly a different […]

Filed Under: Timesavers, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bankruptcy, debt, five frugal things, foreclosure, laptop, mom, money, TV

Today was a great f*cking day.

October 8, 2016 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Three years ago we were about halfway down the financial oblivion hole. It had been about a year since we were making enough money to cover our expenses, we had just filed for bankruptcy, and I couldn’t imagine things getting worse. It was around this time that I really started being open about our financial […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bankruptcy, foreclosure, mortgage, Tyrone

Do You Know What Your Monthly Expenses Are?

September 22, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I hear from a lot of people who are struggling financially. And as you know, we are just coming off of a four year period where we almost lost our house and were on the verge of losing everything. Digging ourselves out of that hole has been one of the hardest things we’ve ever done. […]

Filed Under: Moneysavers Tagged With: bankruptcy, bills, confidential, debt, expenses, finances, foreclosure

Manifest Destiny

August 19, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Exactly one year ago today my husband had a serious boogie boarding accident while we were on vacation in North Carolina. It was another bullet item on the list of significant setbacks we had experienced in the last four years. There was the bankruptcy. Total knee replacement surgery. Which put my husband out of work. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: destiny, foreclosure, husband, jellyfish, surgery, universe, vacation

Marriage Is F*cking Hard.

June 28, 2016 by not your average mom 30 Comments

Marriage is the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. It is so fucking hard. And two days ago, I was ready to be done. Because I’m tired. I’m tired of rehashing the same shit over and over. I’m tired of feeling like I’m failing. I’m tired of working on one thing […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: arguing with your spouse, Cinderella, disagreements, fairy tale, foreclosure, marriage, prince

22 Lessons I Learned When We Almost Lost Everything

June 16, 2016 by not your average mom 4 Comments

If you’ve been around here a while, you know that the past few years have been financial hell for my family. Three years ago we had to file for bankruptcy. Two and a half years ago foreclosure proceedings started on our house. Two years ago we went on food stamps. Things got worse from there. Things […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: 22 reasons, bankruptcy, foreclosure

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