Here’s the honest truth- I’ve lived in Seattle for 10 years now. Roughly every other year we get a major winter storm. It makes no sense to me why we are so ill-prepared every time it happens. Fun fact: Washoe County, NV (where Reno is) has more snow plows than the entire state of WA. And most of WA’s plows are in the central and eastern parts of the state, not the western edge. For theread more…
It’s a Blog Swap! Today’s topic is How to raise a millionaire – developing your child’s entrepreneurial aptitude. I am very excited to be swapping blogs with Money for College Project, where they recently changed their focus from paying for their own college costs to saving for college for their soon to be child. I hope you enjoy this take on the topic, and don’t forget to hop on over to Money for College Project toread more…
Tomorrow I’m participating in a blog swap, so today’s post is just a simple announcement- I’m hosting a Carnival! That’s right, to celebrate my Alexa ranking making it under 200k, I’ve decided to host a Pets and Personal Finances Carnival. The carnival will go up on Saturday, January 28. If you’ve got a post about pets and money or money and pets, send it on in. Just head on over to my Contact page forread more…
Remember how I talked about how you could donate to charity for free, or volunteer from the comfort of your computer chair? How would you like to be able to get a world class education for free, from the comfort of your computer chair or couch? It’s possible. While the series on online learning from Broke Professionals is what got me thinking about this, I want to be clear, I am not talking about earning aread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $21.98 Albertsons Groceries Wednesday $4.39 Lunch Groceries Friday $17.00 Olive Garden Eating Out Sunday $4.00 Starbucks Allowance $41.00 Gas Car $560.00 Vet Pets Spending this week is kind of illusory. We went to CostCo on Monday and Friday, but used our gift cards, so we didn’t spend any money out of the account. On Tuesday, while on his way to class, C was in a car accident. A woman pulledread more…
Today is C’s first Saturday of classes this quarter. I’ve got a ton of stuff I want to get done today, like starting at least 2 loads of laundry, ding a load of dishes, putting away laundry (my least favorite chore), and I have a birthday party for a 3 y/o later this afternoon. So there’s no time for idle chit chat, let’s get on with the links. One of the many things I haveread more…
Have you heard of the six item clothing diet? Google it if you want more information, but basically, it’s this idea that you don’t really need more than six items of clothing (apart from undergarment type stuff), and that if you do go down to only six items, no one will even notice. Now, I am not good enough to get down to six pieces of clothing, even if all the camisoles I own do notread more…
For those of you who are not already mired in the world of personal finance blogs (ie my friends and family who read this), you may have noticed a new badge over on my sidebar this week. (Okay, so you all would have noticed, but you PF people already know what it’s about.) The badge is the Bloggers Give Back badge, and it is a movement started by my dear friend Jana over at Daily Moneyread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $2.00 Starbucks Allowance $36.00 Half Price Books Allowance Tuesday $16.00 Qdoba Eating Out $5.00 Parking Car Thursday $10.00 Dentist Medical Friday $23.00 Zoopa Eating Out $32.00 Hockey Tickets Allowance $5.50 Office Depot Allowance Saturday $4.00 Parking Car $52.00 Gas Car $5.00 Fiction in 50 Allowance Spending this week ran about $190, without us doing our grocery shopping. I actually consider this week’s spending to be on the win side-read more…
One of my goals for 2012 is to be better about sharing what I’ve been reading. While I’d like to promise I’d do this every Saturday, that’s a promise I’m not sure I can keep past C’s first quarter of school (when he will have a Saturday class, so I will be home with nothing to do but post links to other blogs). So I am going to aim for developing the habit during this firstread more…
