The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
I’ve been an architect, day-care teacher to toddlers, and library clerk, but am currently a SAHM to a 14yo son and 9yo daughter. While we were still renting an apartment, I researched areas with lower property taxes, scouted out my ideal neighborhoods, and waited for a smaller, less expensive house to come on the market.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JULY 6, 2014
The sales tax, plus the ongoing higher property tax and insurance are really turning him off – and the van does fine if we drive it locally or just for a few hours to the lake. We will rent a car once we get to my grandson’s house and leave our car parked in my son’s driveway.
The Frugal Girl
MARCH 4, 2024
Our son is 29 and biological. I still remember saving my change as a kid so I could “shop” for books at yard sales.) Alan and I, by choice, bought land in an area with low property taxes. Had we not fallen in love with the locale, it wouldn’t have mattered how low the taxes were, but fall in love we did.
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