Has it really been a year? It is time, once again, for Women’s Money Week. Let me be honest, everything I say in any of these posts applies to men as well as women, but I do think it is important to have events that focus on women and their relationships with money. Why? Because in a lot of ways, men are still seen as the bread winners and financial decision makers. It is less trueread more…
I’m feeling a bit burned out right now, just with life in general. At the same time, I don’t want to stop any of the projects I’m currently working on. What does that means for readers here? Mostly that while I will try to keep to my usual posting schedule, there may not be a whole lot of quality content. That said, for today’s post, there is actual content. Surprising, really. I’ve Written About thisread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $48.22 Gas Car Tuesday $25.72 Rx Dogfood Pets $5.46 Jack in the Box Allowance Wednesday $24.69 Red Robin Eating Out Thursday $23.07 Safeway Groceries $75.97 CostCo Groceries $193.76 Kinnect Allowance $16.41 Barnes & Noble Allowance Friday $36.00 Larry- shots Pets $3,000.00 Loan to brother Misc Saturday $31.80 Fred Meyer House $7.98 Trader Joes Groceries $6.00 Key Arena Allowance $35.00 Thai food Eating Outread 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…
This is the second of two posts about donating to charity. To learn how to give money when you don’t have any of your own, click here You may have noticed that on Tuesday when I posted about donating to charity- for free, I didn’t mention the most common way to give without spending any money- volunteering. There’s a reason for that. Volunteering is often a pretty expensive endeavor. Your time is precious, and many, manyread more…
This is the first of two posts about donating to charity. To learn about how to volunteer from the comfort of your computer chair, click here It’s that time of year, when outside your favorite store there stands a person wearing a red apron, ringing a bell, and pointing you to a red pot. In your office or at your school there are angel trees and people coming around to ask you to donate to aread more…
Reading Money for College Project’s post about his Carnival Cruise: A Lesson in Wealth Distribution reminded me of the first time I noticed a homeless person. (I know, my mind works in odd ways. You just have to go with the flow.) I can’t say for certain it was the first time I saw a homeless person. Growing up in a small town, we had the well known strange folks- the green & purple ladyread more…
Nikki over at Debt Free by Thirty has a segment called The Best Things in Life, where she talks about wonderful events in their lives that happen to be free. Today, I am sharing my contribution to The Best Things in Life- the dog park. I am very well aware that my dogs were not free, nor are they all that inexpensive to maintain. However, a trip to the dog park is free, and something weread more…
