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Clean Your Converse!

My kids love their Converse shoes but it drives me crazy how quickly the white rubber toes get dirty. At $40 a pair, I’d like them to last longer than a few months. I stopped my daughter from wearing hers last week because they just looked so dingy. At the annoying thought of buying a …

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Moving? 10 tips to Make it Easier

Is there anything more stressful than moving? Well sure, there are some things, but when you are in the throes of packing and making arrangements to move, it can feel like you are lost in an abyss of cardboard and bubble wrap. All while trying to live your outside life full of other busy. Geez! …

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Post-Move: Where We Are Now

Part one: I Sold a Dream Home for a Different Way of Life Part two: The Emotions of Selling a Home And finally the dust has settled. It has been almost three months since our big move into our new place. Because the market was experiencing a peak in sale prices and we really didn’t …

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The Emotions of Selling a Home

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So how does it feel to make a life changing decision and then live through the consequences? Equal parts draining and exhilarating (see yesterday’s post for background info.). Days after we accepted an offer on our house I was sitting on our secluded front patio watching the clouds turn my favorite hues of coral and …

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I Sold a Dream Home For a Different Way of Life

Have you ever had a dream, or imagined if you just had “that” (job, house, spouse, car), then you would finally have it all? Well I did. Until I realized dreams change. Or rather the priorities that drive your dreams, change. I’m not even sure now if you CAN have it all. It seems that …

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