This post is part of February Coffee Talk, as hosted by First Gen American. Please check out her site to see all the other entries in the series. What can you learn about me from my tax return? There are a lot of the standard little things. Married, somewhat traditional- we have the same last name, C’s name is listed first on the tax return. No kids. We own our home. We have lots ofread more…
Tomorrow I’m participating in First Gen American’s Coffee Talk, so I didn’t want to do a big post tonight. Instead, I’m stealing an idea from the brilliant Jana at Daily Money $hot and posting a “money tune”. Not only is this song about money, this is a video done by one my absolute favorite local bands, the BOWI Band. The moral of the story is- don’t believe the coal board (or your bosses) when they sayread more…
Today is C’s first Saturday of classes this quarter. I’ve got a ton of stuff I want to get done today, like starting at least 2 loads of laundry, ding a load of dishes, putting away laundry (my least favorite chore), and I have a birthday party for a 3 y/o later this afternoon. So there’s no time for idle chit chat, let’s get on with the links. One of the many things I haveread more…
2011 has been a great year for me. I started this personal finance blog, my third blog, and it has grown faster than either of the others, thanks mostly to the Yakezie network and the amazing people I’ve met over there. I don’t do blog round ups as often as I feel like I should. I promise to try and get better about that in 2012. But what that means is that there have been someread more…
This post is in response to the Sept Coffee Talk Topic posted by Sandy over at First Gen American. Go visit her to see her Household Metaphors post as well as a list of all the participating bloggers. When we went to England in 2008, we realized quickly that our hotel rooms didn’t have alarm clocks or even phones. It seemed like no one wanted us to get up in the morning for our free breakfast.read more…
