Posts Tagged "plants"

Rain, Rain, are you coming again?

Posted by on Oct 3, 2009 in Blog, personal finance | 2 comments

Most of my life I’ve lived in Southern California, a fairly arid region. We hardly ever experience thunderstorms, or summer rain showers. From June through late November or December, our precipitation is minimal to none. Over the past few years, however, we have experience prolonged periods of dryness (prolonged meaning it stops raining in March and doesn’t rain again until the following January!), so that officially puts us in a state of drought. Our municipal department of water...

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Lose the Lawn, Save Money

Posted by on Aug 28, 2009 in Blog, personal finance | 2 comments

When my husband and I first moved into our rental house a few years ago, we had lofty dreams of fixing up a house that hadn’t been taken care of in 20 years. We were excited to begin painting and carpeting our new rental. Our friends thought we were nuts! Yet we hadn’t discussed purchasing a home because it was during the peak of the housing boom; starter homes started at $550,000. So our original plan was to live in our rental home for many years. One area that desperately need...

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I Love Grass…

Posted by on Aug 19, 2009 in Blog, The Great Outdoors | 2 comments

I love the idea of gardening; the smell, the wildlife, the colorful flowers. But trying to say within my budget, and not plant anything in the ground that I won’t be able to take with me when my husband and I purchase our own house, I’ve had to get creative with planting. As a renter, it seems silly to plant in-ground. One main reason I avoid this is that when we move,  the last thing I’ll want to do is dig up, transport, and transplant a multitude of greenery. The...

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