When it comes to trimming the budget, most people start with line items like food and entertainment. Line items like insurance, which can account for a sizeable percentage, can often go overlooked. Since insurance renewals only come once a year, it’s easy to be…
In highschool, Emily’s economics class played a game where each student was given an imaginary sum of money to invest in a virtual stock market stimulation. The purpose of the game was to teach the students about investing and money management through trading stocks.…
Since the kid came along, we’ve been relying on him to be our alarm clock. Lately he’s been waking up close to 8 AM. After months of waking up really early (5 AM) and playing with toy cars first thing in the morning, you’d…
With simplifying our life as the overarching vision for the year, we hereby announce Project UrbanSimplify: a 12 month challenge to help remove clutter, whether that be abstract or material.…
Ah, the new year. It smells shiny and new and exciting. As each new year begins, an optimism surges through me like adrenaline and I am convinced that the upcoming year will be full of awesomeness and possibilities.…