This Independence Day, Rob and I had plans to celebrate with family, but first we had one small, but important item to cross off our to-do list: updating our debt payoff chart! As planned, we waited until the most of the dust from our wedding expenses had settled, then we made a … [Read more...]
Big Strides Forward in Our Journey Out of Student Loan Debt
Big things have been happening behind the scenes at Crazy Together. Now that Rob and I are married, we can finally put all of the plans we made for building our future into action. Yes, the wedding was beautiful, exciting and beyond all of my wildest dreams and expectations. Our … [Read more...]
Where the Heck Have We Been?: An Update
Oh my gosh, it's been a while since we posted anything! Maria and I have been going absolutely CRAZY together (get it?!) over the past few weeks. We have been dropping a few hints on our Instagram page, but so many of our friends and family have been wondering what we have been … [Read more...]
Selling Rob’s House and Moving Forward
As you probably know by now, I have a tremendous amount of student loan debt and Maria and I are selling my house in an effort to pay that debt off. Also, we are getting married in June and we are looking for a place in between our current homes to start our married lives … [Read more...]
Planning Our Wedding on a Budget
Now that we are a mere four months away from our wedding, Rob and I are in the throes of wedding planning and we are at the point of making some tough decisions about what we can afford (as well as what we cannot afford) for the wedding. We set our wedding budget over the summer … [Read more...]
How Can We Afford a Wedding?
By now, you know that Rob and I are working to pay off $180,000 in student loan debt. You also know that we are in the midst up planning our upcoming wedding. Typically, those two items don't mesh well. Either you are aggressively paying off debt, or you are spending a small … [Read more...]
Still On Our Way to Debt Free
Yesterday was an exciting day for Maria and I: we got to draw another line on the "On Our Way to Debt Free" chart! Each line we draw on the chart is a little over $2,000 paid off and we now have two lines on the chart! That means we have over $4,000 in principal paid off! I know … [Read more...]
What the Whole30 is Doing to My Budget
I'm pretty sure that friends have always suspected I was a little bit crazy. Now I have given them even more reason to want to put me in the looney bin. This month, I read the book "It Starts with Food" because I wanted to become better informed about the food I was eating and … [Read more...]
Make Budgeting your New Year’s Resolution
Now that New Year's Day is almost upon us, it's time to start thinking about goals for 2015. Maria tells me that a lot of people are doing an nutrition challenge called the Whole30 for the month of January as a New Year's resolution. I wanted to suggest another New Year's … [Read more...]
