Sarah 
My electric bill was $247 one January. For a 1,200 square foot house. I stared at that number for a long time. Then I looked at my grocery receipt from that same week. Then my subscription charges. Then my impulse purchases from the week before. I added it all up. I had spent $1,143 in … Read more
The first time I tried to hang a shelf, I put four holes in my wall. Not four holes where the shelf was supposed to go. Four wrong holes. In four different spots. Because I kept measuring incorrectly and starting over. My husband came home to find me sitting on the bedroom floor surrounded by … Read more
I used to spend every single Saturday cleaning my house. Six hours. Sometimes seven. I would start in the kitchen, work my way through every room, scrub every surface, vacuum every floor. By the time I finished I was exhausted, my back hurt, and I wanted nothing more than to sit down and not move. … Read more
I spent $200 on matching pantry containers once. Pretty glass jars. Matching lids. Labels that looked straight off a Pinterest board. They looked amazing for exactly 11 days. By day 12, everything was back to chaos. Cereal spilling everywhere. Lids that did not actually fit. And $200 sitting in my trash can. That was the … Read more
I still remember the day I opened my kitchen cabinet and an avalanche of plastic containers crashed down on my foot. It was a Tuesday morning. I was rushing to pack my kids’ lunches before school. And instead of finding what I needed, I was standing in the middle of my kitchen surrounded by lids … Read more