Check out this easy to use online mortgage calculator. I plugged in the numbers for our various mortgages and home equity loan just so I could see the charts. Wow I’m always amazed at how much interest we will end up paying! Seeing it in numbers (an amortization schedule is included) as well as the [...]
~ I may have found a new handyman/plumber to do the work on the other house! I’m very excited as I’m at the point where I just want it done already.
~ A friend’s husband redid their screened in porch and turned it into a Florida room. I never really knew the difference but okay a [...]
I’ve mentioned before my family in Idaho and Nevada. My Dad just got back from visiting (well, he was working too) and gave me the fun update I haven’t had in forever. I love hearing from family news. And when my Dad told me about my Uncle’s house - wow. We are talking 6 bedroom, [...]
Well our handyman is no more. I’m bummed because if we were there (okay if we were there it wouldn’t be a rental house!) it would be super simple to fix. Or most of the things would be anyway. Anyway, he is leaving this week from the area so I have to find someone new. [...]
We figure we’ll be in this area for at least another year and we are planning on a vacation to Florida before we leave. We can drive and with enough planning, we could save on hotel and food prices. Some of the theme parks in the area have deals for military members as well, which [...]
Two months into the new year and we don’t have a budget that takes into account every penny of our money. We pay our bills, buy groceries, get cash from the ATM for gas and consider the rest extra. Of course included in our bill paying is more then minimum payments on the credit card.
Since [...]
The past three weeks to a month have been filled with my Dad calling me to check prices online for various cars he was looking at. It got to the point of me always having websites open so I was ready when he called, luckily for me he usually called in the afternoon when the [...]
My husband has been home for the past few days for his regular days off. He is taking a week of leave though so he’ll be home quite a bit more then normal. It is going to be a short month for him. His current class quarter is over after this week and he’ll have [...]
We have a screened in porch attached to the back of our house and have yet to settle on what we would like to do. I would like to add shades, close off the bottom half, tile the floor and make it into a room that would be fun to sit in. It is a [...]
We go back and forth about wanting to pay our kids each an allowance. They are five and three years old now and for the past year or so have both been receiving money regularly from one set of Grandparents at each holiday. I know we need to start them off young but considering I [...]