Lastly, I wanted the dirt.

Those were exciting and character-building years for us for sure, but when I reached the ripe old age of 27 and our daughter Kennedy was about 5, I was done with it.I remember the exact moment when we realized there might be a loophole in “the system” and we might be able to actually get that big house on that big property that we wanted our kids to remember growing up in AND actually lower our cost-of-living.

As soon as that idea hit, we were ON it!Within a few months, we’d changed our whole lives and have never had to look back.Let’s look at how THAT managed to happen for us, shall we?.

As always: Location, location, location.Unless you’ve just won the lottery, you’ve got to move into a lower-priced market.

In our previous market, this same property just outside the city limits would have been millions of dollars.

Just a few hours down the road though, this property was much much less than the tiny townhouse with almost no yard that we’d been living in.I always love these plates and think they’re so funky looking, but never actually get around to using them.

Why not pull them out and use them to line up tiny cute things, therefore making the tiny cute things even cuter?I can see acorns or tiny Christmas balls looking really neat in one of these too..

So that’s the craft!A great way to pass an hour or so on a weekend afternoon in October.