I belong to a writing critique group because without them, my fiction writing would be nearly non-existent. I love to write. I love to tell stories, and yet, without the external motivation provided by this (amazing) group of people, I wouldn’t write. I wouldn’t commit those stories to paper. You may wonder what this has to do with personal finances. Well, the same thing Weight Watchers has to do with losing weight. Sometimes personal motivation isread more…
Quick Yakezie Challenge Update: My Alexa ranking is below 1 million. Yay! The guest post I wrote for Daily Money Shot was about making choices, about understanding the trade-offs between what you want, whant you can afford, and what you’re willing to give up. For a very long time, we have had HD cable with an HD DVR. Even when the husband was laid off and we were in our crash budget phase, we kept theread more…
About two weeks ago now, I dropped my cell phone in a puddle. Water damage, they tell me, is irreparable. Naturally, I had had that phone less than one year. My husband, on the other hand, has had his phone for almost two years. If this accident had happened two months from now, we could have gotten a new phone on a new contract and been done with it. Sure the website says he’d get aread more…
I started this blog with the assumption that the only people who read it would be people who already knew me. But now that I’ve joined the Yakezie Challenge, I figured that maybe I should introduce myself. Since this is a personal finances blog, lets stick with the things that are most relevant to that. Demographics: Mid-30s, married, 2 dogs, homeowner (or mortgage holder, whatever you want to call it), 2 cars- both paid for, livingread more…
