I grew up with a stay-at-home mother that took wonderful care of us and provided what we needed. She cooked, cleaned, cared, and loved all 4 her kids as well as anyone could on the single income Dad brought in. Anymore it is tough to get along well with just one income; love can help [...]
I’ve been posed this question off and on over the past few years, so I figured it best to say the order I put my cash away. If you’ve realized that you DO need to save it, you’ve already jumped the first snag; now the question is WHERE to put the money? There are so [...]
So I had a pretty good laugh from this today; and makes a lot of sense. I remember back in the day when my parents would DREAD credit cards. We’d have one for a purchase we needed to finance and then it was on the phone and cutting up the card IMMEDIATELY afterwards. If my [...]
So a little outdated, but back in April I wrote a post titled My Comcast Bill Is $160.24 Per Month; What Am I Possibly Paying For!? and I actually had a lady contact me from Comcast to discuss the charges, and it turns out I must have some leverage here on the internet because I [...]
The MoneyLifeNetwork, cooked up some good money saving frugal visiting tips this month on how to stretch YOUR dime this summer! But we are not satisfied. We want more! Send us your tips from where YOU live and be included! We will add you to the SWEET map that shows each location, as well as [...]
Welp, the landscaping and deck building this past week dug deep into the e-fund and overall numbers so they’re not really as bad as they show up because they should both pay off more than the 8k-ish spent on them.
There are just some things in life that you DO need to overspend and overload on. Socks are one of them. They’re (relatively) cheap, they’re very needed, and they’re very frustrating when I can’t find them. What’s else tickles your overspending fancy?
So I did some deep undercover investigation for this weeks carnival digging back in time to bring you The History of Money! Did you know that China was the first to use paper money around the year 1000. It was made from the bar of mulberry trees. Leaves from these trees, you may recall, are [...]
