Normally I put these posts together sometime on Saturday. But this week this is being prepped on Friday and just scheduled to go up on Saturday. Why? Because believe it or not, this is going to be a busier than most weekend. I know, I know, I always make it seem like we’re running around like chickens with our heads cut off on the weekends, but the truth is, I’m married to a true introvert/homebody. Cread more…
Today’s post is inspired by the awesome 7 Financial Hacks to Avoid from The Free Financial Advisor (also known as Average Joe’s Money Blog) and the beyond generic and boring 29 Ways You Waste Cash article from MSN Money. I am so tired of the same old advice on how to save money. What about those of us who already cut cable and don’t have a morning latte? At the same time, most of us cannotread more…
Hi, my name is erin shanendoah, and I’m a Bejeweled Blitz Addict. What this means for you is that my addiction, combined with an inability to think of real content today, results in the following tidbits of information, and nothing really coherent. Assuming my estimates of what the cars are worth and that our bank’s home value estimator can be trusted, C and I reached 6 figures in net worth last month. As of Julyread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $5.00 Cafeteria Allowance Tuesday $48.00 Lowes House Wednesday $57.00 Azteca Eating Out $10.00 Dentist Medial Friday $6.00 Cafeteria Allowance Saturday $57.50 CostCo Groceries $20.00 Cash Allowance $130.00 Target House Yes, I bought jeans yesterday. No, it’s not on this list. That’s because before we ended up going to Penny’s (turns out the Levi’s store doesn’t carry jeans for actual fat people), we swing by a place called BuyBacks and with someread more…
I realized this week that I need two new pairs of pants. First, I need a new pair of black slacks. I have two pair, but one has really wide legs, and I nearly kill myself every time I go up or down a flight of stairs. I really like having two pairs of black slacks (to go with my one pair each of gray and tan), but I do not like falling. So, I reallyread more…
I want to tell you about the day I cried after paying off a debt. These were not tears of joy or relief. I was not looking forward to what having that money freed up could do for my budget. I was crying, tears of loss and grief, as one final connection was broken. I’ve said a number of times during the adoption process that logically understanding something is not the same as emotionally accepting it.read more…
I randomly have thoughts about what I should write a post about, but by the time I get a chance to sit and write, the ideas are all gone. I need to start writing them down, to seize the opportunities that present themselves, because they may never come this way again. Which is actually what I want to talk about today. So often, we, especially the “we” that write personal finance blogs are all about theread more…
Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $17.50 Safeway Groceries $16.50 Safeway Groceries Saturday $90.00 Gas Car $88.50 CostCo Groceries $16.50 CostCo Allowance $18.00 Office Depot Allowance $35.00 Taste of India Eating Out Talk about feeling in control, we only spent money from the bank account two days this week, and less than $300 total. On Friday C used some of his allowance cash to take a classmate out to dinner, and today I used a gift cardread more…
Today has not been super busy, and yet I am exhausted. I guess that’s because what we thought was a sinus infection for C was a cold, and now I’m sick, too. The only things we’ve done today have been take the dogs to the dog park, go fill the car with gas, eat lunch at one of our favorite places, and go to CostCo and Office Depot. That’s really not much in the scheme ofread more…
Because I know you’ve all by dying to know how getting our home ready for the foster licensing has been going, today you’re getting an update. We’ve made progress. I’m not certain anyone besides us can tell exactly how much progress we’ve made because the house, the downstairs and baby’s room, especially, is still a disaster. I think our basement isn’t currently fire safe because we have so many boxes stacked in passageways that it wouldread more…
