We made a point to leave the house in order to get to the library sale when it opened. We ended up being about 5 minutes late. I was so excited! Hopeful that the books we put back would somehow still be there. We bought a box and went on our way - each taking [...]
If I have one addiction, it’s books.
Okay it’s also craft supplies.
But back to the books. Via my homeschool group, I found out that this weekend is the book sale at the local library. How fun! So we went yesterday to browse and see what we could find. The hubs found a lot - in the [...]
Since we stocked up the pantry not that long ago, I said we need to go back to meal planning. After we listed our standard 10 meals, we each grabbed a couple of cookbooks and picked out meals based on how great the picture looked.
DH was nice enough to stay away from seafood (not my [...]
And my husbands.
I found another financial person. I really doubt we will go with her plan, but it is interesting to read and learn more.
Over at Get Rich Slowly he recently reviewed one of her books, The Millionaire Maker.
I signed up for one of her free teleseminars and then got a call (like a commenter [...]
So I was chatting with my best friend earlier today - she has the opportunity to do payroll deductions with various companies and has done so. She bought her daughter a new bedroom set, herself a new mattress, etc. And yesterday was payday and she was left with $150.
Granted, she doesn’t pay rent because her [...]
We were investing 10% of part of DH’s pay for I think 14 months. We decided to stop investing for the time being because of our bad house buying decision which put us living paycheck to paycheck.
Of course we didn’t think about stopping it until the last minute so it’s only been since September that [...]
Yesterday the kids started gymnastics classes. They are once a week (so technically 2 classes a week since there are two kids) and monthly cost $92.50.
For the past couple of weeks I have been feeling very guilty about spending that amount of money on something fun while we are trying to pay off credit cards.
But [...]
I think I filled it out all correctly. Since our budget has been basically out the window from July to September - we were just living paycheck to paycheck - I haven’t updated our debt snowball plan.
Anyway, here is our net worth as of today. It went up a little based on the credit card [...]
I found the Carnival of Debt Reduction which lead me to Check up on your cable bill.
So I made a quick phone call to reduce our cable bill. Sneaky company that my cable/internet company is, I have a package that if you split the services up, it all goes up.
After realizing that I would be [...]
My husband did grocery shopping on the way home from work yesterday. We just got paid the other day so had our typical grocery money available - but since he knew the bonus was also available, he did major stocking up. He is fairly watchful of prices and spent (gulp) $520. That is a HUGE [...]