I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of living with less. I’m already a big-time budgeter, and I rarely make purchases without careful consideration. However, there are some areas of my spending where I’ve been lax – which is one reason why I’m trying a three-month no buy challenge.
Category: Lifestyle
My Favorite Indoor Hobby Ideas For Winter
It’s January, the armpit of winter. I won’t sugarcoat things…this time of the year is the toughest for me! My mental health tends to dip during these cold, gloomy days, and with the holidays in the rearview mirror and 2021 goals at the forefront of my mind, there’s only hard work ahead. However, January is …
Financial Independence 101: How to Figure Out your Monthly Bare Minimum
I’m not a huge numbers person–math was never my thing in school and I don’t enjoy crunching numbers and cranking formulas all day long. But I do enjoy budgeting and finding ways to cut costs. It’s always been like a game to me; figure out how to live on the least amount possible while still …
10 Things No One Tells You About Cabin Life
Ah, cabin life…Instagram makes #CabinLife look like utter bliss.
Productivity For Moms: How I Approach My Goals
Productivity is important to me. Like everyone else, there’s so much I HAVE to do in a day and so much I WANT to do in a day. Nearly a year ago I set some big goals for myself. But since having my 10-month-old I constantly find myself wondering: how can I stay productive as a …
Motherhood: A Life Update
Hi friends! It feels like it’s been forever since I posted an update here, but today I’m in the mood to talk about motherhood. These days I barely have time to check off all my to-do items in a given day, let alone time to write. But baby is napping, and I’ve learned that when …
Birth Story: Lilah Mei-Li Chiu
Hi friends! It’s finally time to share Lilah’s birth story with the world…before she was born I loved reading birth stories and now I finally have my own to share! In the weeks leading up to Lilah’s birth I’d been (understandably) freaked out by the prospect of labor. People kept telling me to resist the …
25 Things I’m Prioritizing in my 25th Year
I’m officially 25! I can’t believe that I’ve made it to this insane milestone…it seems like just yesterday that I was swooning over teenage crushes, trying to figure out my career goals and daydreaming about what it would be like to be a grown up someday. But now I’ve got a firm foothold in my …
Third Trimester Update
The weeks have flown by and I’m deep into my third trimester at this point. It’s finally hitting me that baby will be here NEXT MONTH! It’s overwhelming, exciting and surreal all at the same time. Here’s the lowdown on the third trimester of my first pregnancy…
I Haven’t Seen my Facebook Newsfeed in Nearly a Year
In early 2017, I embarked on an experiment to answer a simple question: what would life be like without my Facebook newsfeed?