Tag: frugal living

hong kong

My mom’s pretty amazing at bargaining and finding travel deals. (She’s the resident travel agent among our family friends.) Before we left, she looked up several groupon deals and had local friends buy em’ for us so we could take advantage of said deals.

On our first day in HK, one of my mom’s friends …

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money ban’s end

We came in 5th out of 13 teams for our eating contest, but we had a lot of fun! There was all kinds of strategizing involved and a pretty awesome inspirational speech made popcorn-style by all of us. (It went something like, “Since the beginning of time…(forgot the exact wording here), we were brought together …

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soupervan’s return + money challenge progress

Soupervan Truck

My favorite food truck has returned to my [and y’know, everyone else’s] life[/lives]! To say that I was thrilled about this would be an understatement. However, it posed a slight problem for me because they returned right in the middle of my money ban. :/

But! Fear not! I have …

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money challenge #1

The #1 is there because there is a high likelihood that I may do this again later on down the road.

In an effort to save money, I’ve basically decided that I will not be spending money from now until the end of February. “Spending money” includes everything from eating out to groceries to…well, seriously–everything. …

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nj public transportation

I stayed up til some unearthly hour last night/this morning wasting time on the internet, but managed to force myself to wake up a couple hours ago so that I could finally commence my wonderful search for a chiropractor.

They’re not all that well advertised on the internetz, although there are apparently a ton of …

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