My friend Jana used to have a feature called “Money Tune Tuesday” that I loved. This post is inspired by that series, by Kim at Eyes on the Dollar’s recent post Does a Million Dollars Make You Rich and the fact that Pentatonix (who I’ve been obsessed with since the Sing-Off) yesterday released the video of their cover of Royals (by Lorde). http://youtu.be/E9XQ2MdNgKY One of my favorite parts of this song is the list of theread more…
Do you ever have the thought ”I could do X and my spouse would never know”? When it’s about buying yourself a piece of candy at the grocery store, it’s probably not a big deal. We’re at a point right now where I could throw $1,000-2,000 into our Prosper account and C would have no idea. I’m not going to do that, because that’s not the kind of relationship we have, but after doing the researchread more…
Yesterday, our good friend Joe from Stacking Benjamins and The Free Financial Advisor hit a major milestone- 365 days in a row of running. First, I want to congratulate Joe on the accomplishment. Doing any specific activity every day for a year takes dedication and resolve. Joe may go by the moniker “Average Joe”, but average he is not. (I would also like to think I deserve a little credit for inspiring him to do thisread more…
The Latte Factor® is an idea/phrase that came from financial advisor David Bach. I mention this because I think you might not know. Despite having heard the term and seeing the idea both praised and debunked, I did not know who to attribute it to until I looked it up for this post. The main idea of the Latte Factor ® is that by giving up your daily latte habit, you could save an extra millionread more…
Alright, after taking August off, it’s time to get back in the habit of walking around the blogs and letting you all know what I’ve been reading. Because it has been so long since I have done one of these, some of the posts I am going to link to are a little old, so maybe you have already seen them, but maybe you haven’t. The Purpose of a Walk – Rescued Insanity. Kristine has beenread more…
I was going to post something else today, and this happened… I was on my way back to my office from a meeting when my cell rang. I answered it. It was from a very nice gentleman at the after school program we are signing SP up for. He wanted to pass on some information to me about needing to contact the district transportation office about her change in bus route after school and to askread more…
August was a month of car repairs for us. We got new shocks on the wagon (original factory shocks and struts on a vehicle with over 180k miles on it) and our 90k service on the sedan. We save for these things and it doesn’t hit our budget hard, but I always end up with some pet peeves around car service. In this case, it was the 90k service on the sedan. When I made theread more…
Welcome to The Kid Ate My Wallet (KAMW) Parenting Guide, a place where I talk about some of the financial challenges of being a parent and trying to navigate them without feeling like you should be watching your child’s bowel movements to see if any loose change is making its way out. This is not a guide for raising your kids. Trust me, if I could create an owner’s manual for kids, I’d be so richread more…
What are you working for? It’s a question a friend of mine recently asked her friends on FaceBook. The answers ranged from the philosophical to very practical. Some people work for joy, others for money. Some work to challenge themselves and others work to pay off debt. How people answered varied on how they saw the question. I tried to make my answer both practical and philosophical. When I decided to go to grad school Iread more…
This summer, we went a little overboard with the spending. It was not just adding SP to our lives, either. We added a new hobby and have spent silly amounts of money on it (though C also sold some stuff on eBay for around $1500 total to help offset those costs). We also purchased my tablet, less than 6 months after I had bought a new laptop. Went on a weekend getaway where we didn’t stayread more…
