Author: cheaplify

What I Spent It was another weird week of very little cooking!  I spent: $24 at Safeway $30 on a Hungry Harvest box $16 at Royal Farms $24 on fast food So, $94 which is not too shabby for a kitchen-mostly-closed week. And I DID cook all my breakfasts and pack all of my work lunches, so […]

Hello, everyone! I’m back in non-hospital world again, and it’s nice to be here! I worked all but two of the last eight days, so my regular world life has been a little neglected.  (This would not be true if my shifts were shorter, but 12-13 hour days mean that I do basically nothing else […]

Warning: this will be a rather navel-gazing kind of post and I’m not even going to pretend otherwise. Proceed at your own risk. 😉  The other day as I was driving to work, I was thinking about what a dizzying year this has been! I finished nursing school. I had to commemorate the last day […]

1. I got free food on Christmas I packed my lunch (as usual!) for my Christmas Day shift. But when I got to work, my co-workers let me know that employees could get $10 worth of free food in the cafeteria (a kindness to those of us who had to work!) I was not about […]

I jotted this question down in a post draft a while back, and I have no notes about where I heard this question. I’m guessing it was on a podcast? But…I thought it would be a helpful question to throw out there at this time of year, when we traditionally think about what we want […]

This post may contain affiliate links, which earn money for this site. Disclosure here. I’m writing this post on Christmas night, after a work shift, and I have 26 minutes before I’m supposed to be in bed. And I still have to shower! Sooo, I’m gonna speed run this post. Let’s go! What I Spent […]

This post may contain affiliate links, which earn money for this site. Disclosure here. To all who celebrate, I wish you a lovely day! (and I also wish you a lovely day if you don’t celebrate Christmas!)   If it’s a hard day this year (and there are many reasons this can be true), I’m […]

We’re gonna go with stream of consciousness today! First, thank you so much to all of you for celebrating with me about my new car. It is so sweet of you all to be enthusiastically happy for me; you all made me smile. Thank you for sharing in my joy! I forgot to mention in […]

You guys, I did it! I bought my Honda Civic. 🙂 Isn’t she beautiful?? I can hardly believe I finally own one.  fresh outta the dealership I haven’t bought a vehicle for myself since 2012. And I haven’t driven anything other than a minivan since 2003. Sooooo, this car feels pretty dang fancy to me! […]

This post may contain affiliate links, which earn money for this site. Disclosure here. I don’t have a post for today, but this is just to say that I’m fine!   I’ve just been busy with work and holiday stuff and also one other thing that I will tell you about tomorrow. 😉  My college […]