Posts by sewaneecook

Children's Place has sales about once per year where I find tops and pants for $1.50 each!  Both boys got a fall jacket at that sale last year.  I can also find great deals at Gymboree when I combine their sale racks with 20%...

If you have a fairly straight forward will, use an online source to write your will.  We used Legal Zoom and then had it notarized after we signed it.  We don't have a lot of assets and everything was fairly easy and cheap (I...

Another example of pant size meaning nothing:  My mom and I are the same height of 5'6", however she is comfortable at 120 lbs and she wears around a size 8-10, but I am most comfortable around 135 lbs and I wear a size 4-6. ...

30 Day Shred is a workout video that takes only 30 minutes from warm-up to stretching afterward and about 18 minutes of intense cardio/strength (3 sets of 3 minutes strength, 2 minutes of cardio, and 1 minute of abs).  I've been...

I often weigh myself several times per day, but that is related to running in the heat and determining how dehydrated I am.  I also find it fascinating how much weight fluctuates during the day, after meals, after drinking a large...

The best core work I've done is some Jillian Michaels videos (30 Day Shred and Ripped in 30).  Even when I was a college athlete my core wasn't as strong as it is now!  There was a point this spring that I couldn't do any...

In my experience, my "running" injuries have been things that I've injured doing something else and running has exacerbated these injuries.  I stepped down and twisted my knee a few years ago and it caused horrible pain when...

I think breastfeeding sometimes keeps 5-10 pounds extra, but more than that there is usually something else (hormones, diet, exercise) involved.  In my experience with both kiddos I kept about 10 pounds extra until I started...

Quote: Originally Posted by madskye  Here's a thread that I started that really helped me--I got a ton of great advice and...

I don't have a lot of tax or investing experience, but I can tell you what we decided to do.  We opened a 529 because the one in our state has tax benefits for us and specifically because it isn't in the child's name.  I...