The Friendletter

Happy Friday, Frugal Friends! 🤸‍♂️ We’ve been talking a lot about simplicity the last few weeks, so I’ll cut straight to the chase. I am the queen of side hustles, and one too many side hustles combined with too many road trips this month has me feeling TIRED. I’ve been on this financial journey for…

Happy Wednesday, Friends! 🌻 Do you ever just feel like you enter a black hole when you go inside a grocery store? No, just me? I don’t know how it happens, but most times I (Misti) go to a store (especially without a list), I somehow end up with the strangest combination of ingredients I have…

I hope you’re having a marvelous Monday, Friends! 🌞 Wanna know something I’ve spent way too much time thinking about lately? Medication. Why is it so expensive? Why do I always forget to pay for it with my Health Savings Account? Why is there always leftover cold medicine scattered in every spare drawer or shelf…

Happy Friday, Friends!  This week has been a mad rush of packing for me since I’m moving to a new place next week (hello, central air!) 🎉 Between working two jobs, packing, and modifying my life to include two wild dogs, things have been a little crazy. Thankfully, last week Misti gave us some helpful…

It’s Hump Day, Friends!  Let’s talk about ✨magic.✨ Not the kind where Neal Patrick Harris pulls a rabbit out of a hat, or the quarter that street performers miraculously pull out of your ear. Today, we’re talking about the magic of compound interest and how it can help you reach your retirement goals! First, we’re…

Happy Monday, Friends!  We’ve got our usual Monday freebies roundup AND another fun giveaway. This time we teamed up with DailyPurr for some California Themed prizes including a $550 cash gift card. 🥳 Join the Giveaway! I (Kim) have also plucked some Spring inspired deals (pun intended), since I come from a long line of…

Happy Friday, Friends! 😎 I (Misti) have been visiting my family this week and helping with some spring cleaning… yeah, I know we’re all a little sick of hearing “spring cleaning” at this point, but bear with me.  After packing up what seemed to be the 19th bin of extra stuff to sell on Poshmark, I…

Happy Hump Day, Friends! 💪 I (Misti) might have been the only kid in the country who begged her parents to let her mow the lawn growing up. It just seemed SO fun to me, but perhaps most of the appeal was only because I was very explicitly banned from ever touching the lawn mower—the handful…

Happy Monday from Misti, Friends! 🤗 The fact it’s already April feels like a hoax to me, and I know I’ll be spending all day today on edge avoiding being the butt of a joke. Let’s just say I was always quite a gullible kid, so I developed a strong dislike of this holiday at…