Did you know you can make your own homemade foaming hand soap? So cool, right?! Honestly, I didn’t think foaming hand soap was worth getting worked up about when I first heard about it… but then I had kids. After wasting who knows how much soap with them pumping it into their hands, I realized Keep Reading
How We Got All Our Kitchen Appliances For $400
When we bought our 40 year old mobile home back in last January (2017), I don’t think we really knew what we were getting into. I mean, there’s a difference between knowing, and knowing, right? And it ended up costing us more to renovate than we were hoping when we started doing things like Keep Reading
We Finally Moved Into Our 40 Year-Old Mobile Home
Last January, we bought a 40 year old mobile home for $1,000. It was a bit of a crazy whim. Gabe and I had talked - briefly - about buying a mobile home to put out on the farm so we could stop paying rent, stop driving from town to farm every day, and finally, after seven years, have a place that Keep Reading
On Renovation and Marriage
If there’s one thing this house renovation has taught me, it’s that after eight years, Gabe and I are still getting to know each other. I know that sounds ominous, but it’s really not - not in the way that one contractor made it sound when he rattled off the percentage of couples who end in divorce Keep Reading
Our Mobile Home Remodel Update: How We Manage Meals and Construction
When we bought this 40 year old mobile home, and moved it out to the farm, I thought it would take us five months max to remodel and get moved into. But I grossly underestimated our home reno newbness, and here we are, going on month nine. In fact we quickly went from "we're going to gut the whole Keep Reading
Homemade Itch Stick Recipe
Raise your hand if you get as annoyed as I do about all the itches that come with summer. I’m happy to say that I haven’t encountered any poison ivy (yet) this summer, but the state bird of Texas is the mosquito if that tells you anything. :P A few years ago, I started getting poison ivy a lot, Keep Reading
Our Mobile Home Project Update: Floors and Ceilings
Several months ago, Gabe and I took a leap and bought a 40 year old mobile home to move out the farm, renovate, and live in for… at least several years. But - spoiler alert! - neither Gabe nor I know anything about renovation, so it’s been an extremely slow process since getting it moved out to the Keep Reading
How To Build A Self-Watering Strawberry Garden
Thanks to Lowe's Home Improvement for underwriting this post because.... Ladies, it’s spring, and you know what that means - garden time!! But… it’s also t-ball, tumbling, and Crossfit time. Not to mention, we’re still in the thick of school work. If that intro made you feel just a little bit Keep Reading
How To Grow Potatoes In Containers
Have you seen those “how to grow a bazillion pounds of potatoes in a trash can” posts? So cool, right? I don’t know about you, but I want to try doing it every year, so this year, we finally did it! Unfortunately, it will be the end of summer before I can tell you how well it works, and by then it Keep Reading
Moving Our New House And What We’ve Done With It So Far
Hi all! So a few weeks ago, I wrote and told you, on a whim, about our "new" 40 year old mobile home, and I have to tell you, I've been blown away by your positive response! So I'm going to try to keep you updated, even though a DIY project - especially of this magnitude - is way out of my depth. Keep Reading
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