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Experience People vs. Things People

  March 2, 2016  |    #Live Fabulously

Enlightenment in a Basement 

In 2004, the two of us moved into a friend’s basement apartment. Our friend prefers to call it a “garden level walk-in”, but it does not meet the legal requirements to be called such. Therefore, we call it a basement apartment. Even today we refer to it as “The Basement”. We make fun, but it was a sweet deal for us financially and we fondly look back on our time there. 

Though we didn’t know it when we moved into The Basement, we quickly realized that this was the answer to our financial problems. At the time, we had $51,000 in credit card debt. Shortly after moving into The Basement, we acknowledged our financial foolishness and devised a plan to climb out of debt, no 1980s music montage included. In about two and half years we paid off our credit card debt and in about four years we started shopping for our own home.

4 Tips for Dining Out on a Budget

  January 26, 2016  |    #Live Fabulously

We don’t know about your area, but in Denver it seems like there has been a recent explosion in the number of new restaurants. From our personal observations, the increase seems to be tied to more and more low to mid cost restaurants opening; i.e. Chipotle, Panera Bread, Noodles & Co and Garbanzos.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the average American household spends $2678 or approximately 40% of our food expenditures away from the house. Yes, you read that correctly, 40%. Now we are all aware that food typically prepared away from home costs more than what we can buy and prepare for ourselves.

A Stress-Free Christmas with 2 Simple Steps

  December 7, 2015  |    #Live Fabulously

Stress-Free Christmas Dreams “It’s the most wonderful time of year,” sings the commercial that demands you buy more and more stuff. We all dream of the wonderful holiday experience we’re led to believe exist from movies, TV and songs. “Where is that,” you ask? We want it too and this year we’re committed to having …

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