Guest post written by my buddy Aldo Mays

When I was a little girl living in Brooklyn I always dreamed of having a beach house in the Hamptons. I know it sounds totally unreachable and kind of stuck up but I knew how ritzy it was and that’s where all the fancy people lived in the summers. Well, now I’m a grown up and my husband and I just purchased a small house a few blocks back from the beach! I opened my own consulting company a few years back and it’s done really well and my husband’s on Broadway so we’ve finally been able to realize that dream. We are definitely trying to pinch pennies where we can to make up for the cost like going to NewYORKENERGYrates.com/ to look into a better energy rate and even selling some of our old furniture on Ebay since it’s antique and worth a lot of money. We’re getting it done but even if we have to sleep on the floor we love having our very own beach house!