Debt Reduction 101

I had about a zillion things I thought I would accomplish today after the last day of a long work week. But I’m just very happy to be home! I’ve been extra hours this week to help out some of my coworkers and it’s gratifying because they are appreciative, challenging because I am juggling extra [...]

I remember what a thing it was to get ready to go back to school when I was a kid. The town that I grew up in is a predominantly rural area and although we had a couple stores that we could get some really basic supplies at, when it was time for back-to-school shopping [...]

That’s the question that I posed to my husband tonight as we were relaxing before he went off to play video games with his guy friends. He was half asleep in the chair and I was prone on the couch, dreaming about the pot of coffee I was going to make to revive both of [...]

Good articles from the financial world that you should read! From the New York Times: People are spending less and are feeling happier than they did with so much stuff. Tammy Strobel and Logan Smith are an inspiration – I don’t know if I will ever get down to just having 100 items in my [...]

The Husband and I just got back from spending the weekend with his folks. (Happy birthday to both of you!) Among the many things that my mother-in-law and I have in common (we love to cook, we both love her oldest son, we love old country music, etc.), we both love HGTV. But this post [...]

I should have entitled this “the thrill of a new year … and more dental problems.” In good news? I turned 32 on Saturday. I like odd numbered years, but I like even numbered ones even better. (Hell, every year that I’m breathing is a good year.) Bad news? The twinge in my jaw that [...]

This is the first Saturday in awhile that my husband and I have been home. The morning found us in front of our computers reading our favorite news sources and columns, but then we took advantage of our down time … and then we started cleaning. While going through papers that I was intending to [...]

Here’s the scene from last night: It’s a Friday night in my home. It’s a Friday after a very long week (ironic, considering that we had Monday off to celebrate the holiday). And there was a part of me that really, really, really wanted to tell my husband that I was going to blow off [...]

I have been married to my husband for over a year, have been his roommate for nearly three years and have known the man since college (over 10 years), but the relevant portion of this article is the three years that we’ve lived together and have struggled and failed to create a budget. Sure, I [...]

Sorry that it took me a bit to post these photos, but I finally made my own Topsy Turvys using recycled milk jugs and an orange juice carton. The inspiration for this came from here. In addition to liberating my recycling, the supports are constructed out of bamboo skewers and I used regular kitchen string [...]