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Category: Mindset & Lifestyle

  • Parenting and Summer Vacation

    One month into summer break, balancing the demands of content creation with family life means embracing the beautiful weather, bike rides, and a packed schedule of upcoming camp trips, festivals, and backyard water slides.

  • Frugal Friday: June 26th 2026

    When an unexpected coolant leak forces a basement appliance replacement, a careful look at used market fees reveals why buying a brand-new Midea on sale at Lowe’s actually wins the frugal math.

  • Mini-Thoughts Update: When is it Worth a Post?

    Shifting strategy to protect the schedule: why cutting back weekend publishing to focus on one or two high-quality weekday posts is a win for both time management and content quality.

  • Father’s Day June 2026: Kid Time is the Best Time

    Father’s day. Is it for relaxing? or is it for spending time with your kids?

  • I Can’t Take Weekends Off

    Always something to do.

  • Frugal Friday June 18 2026: Finally Meal Prep Time

    Shaking off a six-month delay, our family of five dives back into quarterly bulk meal prepping with a secret new food supply store that beats Sam’s Club meat prices.

  • Origins Game Fair 2026

    Skipping out on Origin Game Fair—the country’s second-largest board game convention right in Columbus—to stay home, tackle debt, and prioritize family organization.

  • Restful Sunday

    Not sure how much rest I’m going to get, but I’m hoping to do so. Yesterday was pretty exhausting. Today we have to get Summer breakfast shopping down, and I need to make the jam. I really need to work on my wood pile. I hope everyone else has a great weekend. ~~Miniwing~~

  • Strawberry Traditions

    Every year in the spring it becomes time to pick strawberries. The season runs a little late this far north, but we missed last year. For me, this was as much a part of my childhood memories as apple picking in the fall. We would go picking strawberries with my grandfather and he would make…

  • Frugal Friday June 12th, 2026: Is Investing Frugal?

    Between a busy meeting schedule and organizing the shed, I managed to snag one of the few shares available in the historic SpaceX IPO

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