This is a guest post from Gin @ Frugal Students Real Estate, like any other investment opportunity, can make or loose you money. However, real estate is more risky because it requires renters to pay the bills and a buyer when you want to get out of it and if you do not purchase correctly, you may never get ahead. I was luckier than I like to admit but I also planned for over a yearread more…
Thanks to Jana @ Daily Money Shot for this guest post For most of us, work is a necessity. We need to work to earn money to pay for things like housing, food, transportation, clothes, utilities and the occasional splurge. If you’re like me, you like to leave your personal life at home and your work life at work. But what happens if something personal occurs and there’s no way possible to take time off withoutread more…
A condensed post tonight as I am officially on vacation tomorrow and tonight I’m busy getting the house ready for guests. I hate putting away laundry. Sometimes I think it would be worth hiring a maid just for that… Friday: I had an orthodontia appointment in the morning, so copay there. I no longer have to wear the bite plate, so I can start eating foods that require molars again. We took the MIL to Redread more…
Back in 2010, when my brother took his job in Australia, hubby and I made a plan to go visit him in March 2012. We figured it would take us that long to save for the plane tickets- flying to Australia is ridiculously expensive. When my brother first hinted that he wasn’t happy in Australia and might be looking to come back stateside before March 2012, we said not to worry. We’d just use the moneyread more…
I originally thought of this post in regard to being in a romantic/life partner type of relationship, and some parts of it will still be geared at least a little toward that. But it occurred to me, that regardless of whether or not you share financial responsibility with someone, its important to “know your role”, to understand your relationship to money, regardless of any other relationships out there. Let’s start with me. Like sand through theread more…
This has been an odd weekend for shopping. Friday Dinner: $7.84 ($2.61/person) Chicken Fingers & Jojos from Safeway Activities: Dog Park Saturday Breakfast: Cereal Lunch: $59.76 (4 people, also served as dinner) Old Spaghetti Factory Shopping: Borders (going out of business sale) $21.67 Game Stop (pre-order SW:TOR) $5 Activities: The new Conan movie for 4 people $24 Board Games Pinochle On Friday one of our best friends dropped off 2 twin XL memory foam toppers forread more…
I’d originally planned for this post to go up Monday, and then Wednesday, and then… Well, life got in the way this week, so my blog round up is a few days later than I’d intended. Still, that means there’s more great posts to choose from. So, in case you’re wondering, here’s what I’ve been reading these past couple of weeks. Student Edition (because my dear cousin, who has been staying with us for the summer,read more…
This post is inspired by Brave New Life, who posted about his strategy for lending in a peer to peer network in Lending Club Investment Strategy Back in March 2007, we had some extra cash from yearly bonuses and decided we wanted to try peer to peer lending. I’ll be honest, I do not remember exactly how this came up. One of us probably read an article about it and thought it looked interesting. Then weread more…
This post was inspired by Marie over at Family Money Values, who asked Do You Talk to Your Parents About Money? We’ve been managing my mother-in-law’s finances since 2008. While my husband and I are younger than most who have to deal with this, it is not uncommon for adult children to eventually need to step in and handle the finances for aging parents. Often, it is do due poor memory or dementia associated with aging.read more…
This weekend is going to look spendy, but it was in the budget. The husband spent a week working a convention for a friend’s company. While he wasn’t paid for it, he was given a per diem of $427. He only spent $160. That gave us extra money to spend at the Renaissance Faire this weekend. And considering the Faire is usually serves as our anniversary “gift” to ourselves, it was nice to have the freedomread more…
