by Amanda Spencer | Apr 3, 2018 | beauty
I grew up in the 90s, when every girl got either a shower gel gift set from Bath and Body Works or a collection of Lip Smackers lip balms as a gift for basically any occasion. As nostalgic as these things make me, the ingredients make me shudder. I have a (general)...
by Amanda Spencer | Feb 12, 2022 | beauty
If you buy liquid shampoo, go grab that bottle and turn it over to read the ingredients. The first ingredient was water, right? I don’t know about you, but I have water at home, I don’t need to buy a product that is mostly water. Ingredients aside, have...
by Amanda Spencer | Aug 10, 2020 | meal plans
Well, this week didn’t start out the way I had hoped. On my way to my former home to list the furniture for sale (so I could then list the house for sale) I received a phone call from my former neighbor letting me know a flash flood hit our area last night....
by Amanda Spencer | Aug 2, 2020 | meal plans
This week was a fun challenge for me, grocery budget-wise. I was almost out of some important ingredients for my smoothies (beet powder, hemp hearts) and some other groceries, but I wanted to stick to my $100/week grocery budget. So I got creative. The only way I was...
by Amanda Spencer | Jul 27, 2020 | meal plans
Last week I posted our menu plan for the first time in…maybe ever in the almost 7 year history of this blog. My usual M.O. is to just keep ingredients on hand and have a basic idea of what to make and decide each day what to do. Even though on Friday I scrapped...
