One of the things I like most about the Seattle area is that it doesn’t get hot, at least not really hot, on a regular basis. Having lived in eastern MT and northern NV, I’ve had my share of hot. I like temperate. To me, the temperature should stop going up once it hits 75. However, every once in a while, Seattle gets a blast of heat. This is that weekend. (Naturally, we have plans toread more…
I’d meant to get a post written this afternoon. It didn’t happen. We went to the local Farmers’ Market instead. We have game night tonight with one of C’s friends from school. Tomorrow we’re going to a pub to hear a local band play. That means no real substantive post until Tuesday, though I do intend to get a Sunday evening post in there, as well.
There’s won’t be a “What I’m Reading” post today because I’m hosting the Carnival of Financial Simplicity tomorrow. Due to that, and the weekend lasting through Monday, our regular Sunday Evening Post will be made Monday evening. What you may not know about me is that I come from a military family. My brother serviced, my father and uncles served, both of my grandfather’s served. C’s father and grandfathers served. J served. Memorial Day is aread more…
I am exhausted after a good but busy weekend, including much house and yard work today. And while thinks I might be addicted to blogging, I’m not. So the normal Sunday Evening post with spending for the last week will be posted Monday morning, so that I can do nothing for the rest of the evening and not worry about it.
Sometimes the journey out of debt or just to a better financial picture can be long and tedious. It gets tiring, and you just get sick of it all. In order to counteract this fatigue, I choose financial milestones that I am looking forward to meeting as little points of celebration along the way. This week, we hit a milestone that I have been looking forward to meeting for a LONG time. I graduated in Mayread 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…
Okay, after just one week, my Alexa rank is down to under 3.25 million. Cut in half already. Now I just need to do that again another 4 times
I’ve joined the Yakezie challenge, since Jana over at Daily Money Shot seems to be so happy she did. My current Alexa rating is 7,121,869. The goal is to get to under 200,000 in the next 6 months. Yikes! Well, I like goals and challenges, so 200,000, here we come!
Our kitchen is full of gadgets. The hubby just got a waffle maker for his birthday. At Christmas, I got him an immersion blender. We have gadgets. Lots of gadgets. But while we like our gadgets, there are only two that have permanent places on our counter tops- and the toaster is not one of them. No, our two can’t live without gadgets are the rice maker and our electric kettle. And I could probably liveread more…
I am constantly inspired by Mrs. C at Another Housewife. In fact, I think, thanks to her, that in August I am going to challenge myself to posting everything we spend that comes out of our grocery budget, and maybe even figure out the cost of our meals at home. I love the pictures she posts of her family’s weekly meal, too, and so I am sharing this: About a month ago, the husband got itread more…
