I know it’s Monday morning. I had been intending on posting last night when I got home, when I thought I was going to get home a little after 8pm. Instead, I got home after 10:30pm. Why you might ask? Because Seattle just had its coldest weekend of the winter, and my bio-diesel powered car sat outside in it. The fuel got all gummed up and wouldn’t start. C had to come pick me up from my friend’sread more…
While you are reading this, I am enjoying a weekend away in fabulous Victoria, BC. I am off once again on a writers’ retreat- something I very much need if I’m going to accomplish my ambitious writing goals for the year. But just because I’m not at home doesn’t mean I can’t share with you some great blog posts from this last week. Just know that anything written after noon on Thursday isn’t going to makeread more…
What you’ve all been waiting for, my financial graphs updated with 2012 data… Our income went down a little bit, but we expected that. It was the first year we had no unemployment. However, our spending went down even more than our income and our savings definitely went up. For the first time ever, we spent literally $0 on what I called credit cards. Instead, every month the cards were paid off completely and the chargesread more…
I have always wanted to invest in the stock market- it just seems cool. And I’ve loved the projects I’ve had to do in various classes where we got a ton of fake money to invest in stocks and then tracked our progress over the course of a semester. I did this both in high school senior government class and again in my MBA program. But both times, we were given a ridiculously high number –read more…
Welcome to the first Sunday Evening Post of 2013. I have got new goals and a new format that I am hoping will help me focus on what I want to focus on this year- in blogging, every day finances, and my side hustles. Let’s start with the weekly tracking. I track every penny we spend on my spreadsheets. I don’t really need to do it here, too. Instead, what I want to make more visible is whetherread more…
Every once in a while, I mention something to C with the expectation he will talk me out of it. Sometimes, I even start the conversation with the note that I need him to be the reasonable one. This weekend, we both failed at being reasonable, at least when it came to talking. Saturday. It started with me, not feeling well, wanting to be able to play video games while being on the bed, insteadread more…
Happy New Year! I love that we use this time of year for reflection and goal setting. Okay, I try to do at least some of that year round, but I always love the idea of starting on a brand new slate. 2013, here I come. However, before you can know where you’re going, you have to know where you’ve been. So today is one of reflection. We’ll look at the top 12 posts of 2012read more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $10.00 safeway groceries $14.25 papa murphys groceries $51.25 lowes house $39.25 christmas allowance Thursday $57.00 writing allowance Friday $123.25 CostCo groceries Saturday $22.25 Red Robin eating out I am the queen of last minute Christmas shopping. I just am. Otherwise, this was a fairly quiet week for spending. I did spend money on Thursday on my writing goals, but that’s something I feel good about. Saturday, I wanted C to talkread more…
I am not feeling well this week, so no What I’m Reading. Honestly, I haven’t even been to any blogs other than to reply to comments on my guest post over at Average Joe’s Money Blog. I’m hoping that I can be mostly a bum today (maybe start packing up Christmas decorations, maybe not) and start to feel better. So in lieu of content, here are pictures of the pups with the only Christmas gifts they got (which were notread more…
In You Are Not Alone, I wrote about the circumstances that led to me joining the Women In Red message boards in 2009. This was a community started based on a series of articles written by MP Dunleavey for MSN Money. While MP is no longer with MSN or the community, and the community isn’t hosted on MSN anymore, it is still going strong. Sunday will mark my 3 year anniversary of having been a memberread more…
