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Hustle Hard

How many times have you caught yourself daydreaming about quitting your 9-5 and making tons of money—or at least enough to cover your weekly coffee stops? If it’s more than once then this post is for you! Here are 4 creative ways to make money online.  1. Start a blog and advertise for other people.  While this isn’t the easiest or least time consuming way, it is one of the most consistent. Once you have plenty of followers, you can advertise for other businesses and make a small amount of side cash. Plus, you get to pick your content and write about whatever you’d like. Pick a niche and start sharing your thoughts.  2. Design journals or planners and sell them on Amazon again, not the least time consuming but something that is fully customizable for you. It takes a little advertising to make massive sales, but for any of you creative folks, it is a fun and relatively easy way to make some side cash.  3. Design t-shirts and sell them.  Again, rather creative, bu...
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Ballin' on a Budget

I was well into adulthood before I realized how important a budget is. Nevermind my parents pounding the idea into the ground--I just didn't get it. It seemed so stuffy and unimportant. I had money, I spent money. End of story.  I've since learned that budgeting is like style--personal and highly customizable. Since being married, Kyle and I have tried and tested just about every budget style out there, and I'm here to give you the highlights.  1. Cash Budget While not for everyone, this was probably one of the best and most successful budgets we used--for a short term goal. It's not something that I would typically recommend as a long term budget, but if you're needing to meet a heft goal in a short amount of time, the cash budget could be what works.  There are multiple ways to make this budget work, but the the one that stuck for us was putting all of our regular dependable bills on autopay, and then budgeting out all the variable expenses in cash. We had five ca...
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Go Big or Stay Home

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Something really exciting happened for us yesterday. As some of you may know, Kyle and I have been looking for jobs and working our way towards moving to North Carolina. We visited this past spring, and fell in love with almost everything about the place. Since then, we've been working our little butts off trying to save for our move, and find jobs to support us. We've had zero luck. I had one serious hit on my resume, and interviewed for a job, and then got rejected. It was a tough blow, but I picked myself back up and started again, from square one. I opened up my search to include jobs I would have never thought of, and I've sent out more than 100 applications, and almost as many follow-up emails. We've both rewritten our resumes and worked with staffing agencies to see if they could find us a spot. Nothing. Now, as much as we want to move to NC, we really just want to try something new. We love being close to family here in the PNW but we also really want to ...
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Hurricane Oho.

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I've been meaning to write this for some time, and I figured 6 months in ought to work just fine.  Kyle and I got married on October 10, 2015.  We were on the Oregon Coast, Cannon Beach to be specific, and stood up in a hurricane, (No really here is a press release from that day ) in front of our close family and friends and linked our lives together.  The entire weekend was a rainy and windy blur, but I don't regret a second of it. I laughed and smiled, and was married to my best friend. A little rain ain't got nothing on us. Since then, marriage has been an dynamic ride. We've adjusted, and stretched, and shed habits, and gained new ones. We've laughed, a lot, and learned more about each other than I thought was possible. We've reached new levels of comfort, and fallen in love again and again. I was reading a click bait article the other day, entitled "12 Things Happy Couples Do Every Day." It was a listicle that described habits ...
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