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Latest blog posts from My Country Home

A Cat Game and Atos
Hi everyone.I saw this game when visiting Mariuca´s Perfume Gallery, a fellow blogger I like very much, and just had to do it.So, I´m a Bengal cat :)You Are a Bengal CatYou look wild, but deep down, you're really quite sweet.You are curious about the world around you, and you love to...
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Published 4 days ago

Saving Money: Supermarket Budget - October
Hi.For all that just arrived here in My Countryhome blog, this post is about a supermarket budget experience I´ve been doing since June. My goal is to save money and make overpayments in our plot´s loan. To recap, my supermarket totals were, in Euros:~ June - 364.57 + extras, near 400.00;~ July...
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Published 6 days ago

Saving Money: My Meal Planning
As you know, I do a bit of bloghopping every day. I like blogs about saving money, like Move to Portugal, Money Ning and other "frugal hackers", because they share experiences and tips to save money. While bloghopping, I noticed that some moms are doing meal planning as a way to save money and...
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Published a week ago

Our Countryhome Story: We´re Not Giving Up
Hi everyone.Yes, it´s true, my post tittle says it all. We decided we´re not giving up our Countryhome project, not yet. After going trough our project´s papers I realized that we only asked the city hall their opinion, "um parecer" as we call it in Portuguese. We´re thinking about opening a...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Our New Furfriend: Meet Atos
Hi everyone. This is our new furfriend, he´s mame is Atos:We adopted Atos on 11th November, after my daughter insisting for months on having a cat. We agreed to think about it but she asked if it could be a Christmas present. We said yes, hoping she would forget about it but she didn´t. She...
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Published 2 weeks ago

My Countryhome is Sponsoring Chesterstudios´ Contest
Hi.Just a quick note to let you know that My Countryhome blog is Sponsoring Chesterstudios contest with EC credits and add space. There are many prizes to be won. You can check all details to participate in this great contest in Chesterstudio´s blog, just click the logo to join us:
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Published 2 weeks ago

Our Plot´s Story: Too Many Obstacles
Pic: Mountain View from our PlotHi, a good weekend to all.In the past months we seem to have lost all our initial motivation to build our so wanted countryhome in our plot.The truth is there are too many obstacles, and each time we brainstorm to find new solutions we end up in the same old...
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Published 3 weeks ago

A Country Fellow Blogger
Hi. Most of My Countryhome readers know I like Entrecard, each day I like it more because I gained new visitors and found excellent blogs. Each day I do my "blogs round" I learn something new, what else could I ask? Well, in one of my rounds, as I like to call it, I came across a blog of a...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Countryside: A Roman Bridge
Hi everyone.Hope you´re having a good weekend.Today, I´m posting pictures of a very old Roman bridge you can visit in Algarve´s countryside. I´ll have to investigate more about this bridge and update this post later. Anyway, Romans were "everywhere" in Europe, they built many roads and...
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Published 3 weeks ago

First Overpayment Balance
Hi everyone.As a result of some overspending my overpayment plan changed. Here´s a summary of what we did with our IRS refound:~ A credit card overpayment: 200.00 E - Done. ~ A deposit of 300.00 E in our savings account for the Fence - Spent by hubby (no comments).~ Car Insurance for six months:...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Thanks Entrecarders: October Love from My Countryhome
Hi everyone.As you all know, I´ve become Entrecard "addict" and I love it. Every month I post a "thank you" post to show my appreciation to all Entrecarders and to those who stood out because they dropped me more cards, advertised on my blogs or wrote me interesting comments. So, a special...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Extravagant Spending
Hi everyone. Today´s post is about my previous plans for this year´s tax money (that, partially, went down the drain, lol). The picture is obvious, we got a new TV!The old huge set had been fixed for the third time (that´s what you get when you buy a cheap and unknown brand) and finally, last...
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Published 4 weeks ago