Retail Therapy Without the Guilt (or Expense!)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, we spent a pretty good chunk of change in our recent living room remodel. So, in keeping with our Mustachian ways, that means we’re tightening our wallets a bit over the next month or so, to even out that additional expense. That being said, you can imagine how pleased I was today when […]
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Highlights from our “Nevertheless, She Persisted” Postcard Party
This past weekend, we invited several of our more liberal-leaning friends over for a slightly different kind of social event: a postcard party. The purpose of this sort of gathering is to get individuals together to write their elected officials, but in a way that’s fun, social, and builds up our community. The planning for the party […]
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Our Living Room Remodel Revealed: Before & After Pics!
This post contains affiliate links. For more information, see our About page. It’s finally done! After my annoying back-and-forth with West Elm, and scouring my garage for interesting mantle items, my new living room remodel is finally finished! And I’m loving it. Our room before was just a hodgepodge of things that we had both […]
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Trip Review: All-Inclusive Resort in Cancun
We’ve just returned from our first “real” vacation of the year, a four-day trip down to an all-inclusive resort in Cancun, Mexico. It was a fantastic little getaway, and once again, the out-of-pocket cost of our trip was almost entirely FREE, thanks to our use of points and miles strategies. We got our free flights, direct on Southwest […]
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Styling a Mantle with (Mostly) Found Objects
As part of our ongoing living room remodel, it became evident that my old mantle styling (which centered around a tile mosaic of one of my favorite vintage Italian alcohol posters) could use an update as well. I’m a big fan of the “asymmetrical balance” approach to mantle styling, and I also don’t like the idea […]
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Healthy Recipe: Easy DIY Tuna Poke Bowl
I’ve always been a huge fan of sushi, but I’ve never actually tried making it at home. It just seems like a lot of work. Who has time for that on a week day? But when we did the Meal Kit Review Series a couple months ago, one of the recipes was for a DIY tuna […]
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Try This, Not That: An Alternative Travel Guide for Austin, Texas
This post contains affiliate links. For our full advertising disclosure, see our about page. After publishing my last post, about the steps and sites I frequently use to plan our vacations, a friend was surprised to learn that I don’t just look to travel guides like Fodor’s or Lonely Planet for advice. “Wouldn’t it be easier to […]
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How to Maximize Your Vacation With a Well-Planned Itinerary
It’s probably not a secret to any of you who actually know me in real life, but…I’m definitely a planner. Like, intensely so. If someone tells me their grand vision for anything, I immediately start trying to work out the logistics in my mind. And the same goes for vacations. I’m not a “hop-a-last-minute-flight-to-wherever-and-then-see-where-fate-takes-me” type of […]
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15 Things You Can do Post-Inauguration to Keep Resisting a Trump Presidency
January 20, 2017, 12:02pm: “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” Well, he’s the President now. But that doesn’t mean our fight is over. It means our fight is only just beginning. What you […]
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Warning: Be Careful Before You Buy Furniture From West Elm
Today, I had a really unfortunate interaction with West Elm, and thought my readers should be alerted to some rather dishonest policies they’re hiding from customers. So here’s my West Elm review. This story all started a couple weeks ago. We decided that it was finally time to replace our old couch, and after looking at literally hundreds […]
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