Amy

Amy
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Amy is a Northernor by birth, but please don’t hold it against her! Amy has called Middle Tennessee home for over twenty years and couldn’t picture raising a family anywhere else! Today, Amy lives just outside of Nashville with her husband of over seven years (JP), her four year old spitfire of a daughter (Lily), and their eleven-year-old-but-still-acts-like-a-puppy black lab (Alley). It’s a daily toss up as to who rules their house—Lily or the dog—and Amy has many funny stories to prove the battles. Amy is a working mama by day—a fraud and suspicious activities investigator at a local, community bank, and a jack-of-all-trades by night and weekend. She loves crafts, music, the outdoors, saving money and bargain hunting, gardening (and all the canning, freezing, and preserving that comes with it), comic books, and anything upcycled, recycled, or DIY, and she’s just crunchy enough to call herself a hippie. She can often be found perusing yard sales, flea markets, Pinterest, and Etsy, looking for her next big project, or playing superheroes, painting, or playing outside with Lily. Currently, Amy and her husband are on a quest to find the best burger in Nashville and love visiting all the fantastic foodie spots this great city has to offer!

Mom 101: Build Each Other Up!

Becoming a parent can be a terrifying experience at first. I was in the hospital for three days after having Lily. On the third day, they handed me my discharge papers and let us leave...

Brown Recluse Spiders: A PSA for Tennessee Moms

A few weeks ago, I went on a business trip. This was the first time that my husband and four year old had any kind of long stretch without me. I was nervous, to be...

Labor Day Weekend 2014 – Happenings In And Around Nashville!

Labor Day Weekend is often considered the "last hurrah" of Summer. It's still warm and sunny, and it's the last long weekend before we are well into Fall. Nashville is a fantastic place to...

Money Saving Monday: Saving on More than Groceries {Series}

According to Fortune3, an e-commerce blog, approximately 73% of all Americans do at least half of their shopping online. A whopping 66% prefer online shopping to in-store shopping. While I totally and completely advocate...

Date Night In Nashville: Keeping It Low-Key {Series}

 We hope this series inspires you to spend a little quality time with your partner in our fair city. There are so many fantastic different places and wonderful different ways to make your night...

Money Saving Monday: Store Rewards Cards—App Style!

Store rewards programs are great, but the plastic cards that attach to your keychains are not. The days of walking around with a key ring full of plastic cards with peeling edges appears to...

Eat Local, Buy Local – Nashville Farmers Markets: Bountiful Baskets, an Alternative {series}

Like many of you, I love a good Farmer's Market. Nashville is definitely chock-full of them. But, sometimes...I'm in a hurry or the weather isn't so nice or my kid isn't being very pleasant,...

Money Saving Monday: Checkout 51, SavingStar, and Shopmium {Series}

If you love Ibotta, you'll want these three awesome apps too. They work pretty much the same way, with only a few subtle differences. First up is Checkout51.  Like Ibotta, there are select items listed. However, the...

Money Saving Monday: Ibotta {Series}

I'm excited to tell  you all about my favorite money saving app in this first installment of Amy's Money Saving Monday! Ibotta (available for both Android and iOS) is a shopping app that is not only...

(Shopping for) Christmas…in July!

Blame it on the polar vortex, El Nino, or the fact that Hobby Lobby not only has fall décor out (and it’s already discounted 40%!), but I woke up last week with Christmas on the...