While shopping for additional information, I discovered this thread from June 2015. It was helpful to me again, so I'm bumping it up.

This thread also reminds me that a successful LC lifestyle isn't a smooth journey. It has stops and starts, bumps, and crashes! (We're talking Christmas here!)

Now that I'm off to a fresh start in 2016, I can review the things I've learned, or tried to, in the past.

Thanks to many experienced and helpful people here, I don't have to go it alone.

Happy new year!