Back to Personal Finance

I totally know that I have these cycles where I talk about family, education, fitness, finance and then review stuff here and there or share news that I think is cool. The cycles can make some people happy and annoy others because I just cannot dedicate myself to one niche.

But…personal finance is coming . . . → Read More: Back to Personal Finance

How to Avoid Credit Cards for the Holidays

The holidays are a time where you want to show people how much you love them. Or, you want to rub in their face that you’re not the same teenager that constantly kept bumming twenty bucks from your dad every other minute. Whatever the reason, spending goes a little crazy in December.

Here are . . . → Read More: How to Avoid Credit Cards for the Holidays

Catching Up on Bills

It’s been a tough year. Starting a brick and mortar business with cash and refurbishing it from head to toe ourselves was no small task. Marketing and getting clients has been tiring. All this while working jobs and going to school and doing all the other little side-venture things that make a couple hundred . . . → Read More: Catching Up on Bills

The Best Way to Pay for Summer School

For the umpteen years I’ve been in college, the time I always looked for the most – the time everyone looked forward to the most – was the payout of the semester “extra” student aid money.

I think this was the part of the student aid package that was supposed to help you eat . . . → Read More: The Best Way to Pay for Summer School

Bittersweet Holiday Season Approaching

There is SO much stuff I have to do before December.

Still don’t know what’s going on with Thanksgiving – I wish I could just skip the holidays this year. Go to Disney or someplace completely weird and off-the-wall (for us – for you Disney people that would be normal and cool) to celebrate . . . → Read More: Bittersweet Holiday Season Approaching

Surgery and Schoolwork

So it seems that a week out of the loop with surgery took down my hopes of a 4.0 – maybe not, but it’s pretty likely there will be at least one B in the bunch of grades I’ll be getting in a month or so.

It’s a little disheartening, but at the same . . . → Read More: Surgery and Schoolwork

Cautiously Optimistic About A 4.0

I’m past the midterms and now it’s all downhill.

Only 56 days left until the end of the semester. It feels like I’ve been back in college forever but, at the same time, feels like it’s flown by. Yesterday I was late to a class for the first time, but was able to get . . . → Read More: Cautiously Optimistic About A 4.0

Car Drama! (Super Fun Times)

So…

We’re a one car family. Have been for years. Totally happy that way – really – even when it was a little inconvenient.No car payments is a beautiful thing that has allowed us to make the budget one line shorter and let us worry about one less thing.

This week my darling husband . . . → Read More: Car Drama! (Super Fun Times)

He Got a What??

Randy went out and got a job.

It’s an overnight, three day a week, 12 hour shift thing.

Because – and I’m dead serious – he loves manufacturing. I’ve been asking him since before we got married what his dream job was…and he finally came up with something … and it’s a warehouse?

. . . → Read More: He Got a What??

My Life List (with inspirational props to J. Money)

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Over on Budgets Are Sexy, J. Money has a life list.

It’s different than a bucket list, because I’m never going to die. That’s right. I’m a vampire. Or something. Honestly, I don’t know how it’s different but this is just a list of a few super-fun things I’ve always wanted to do but . . . → Read More: My Life List (with inspirational props to J. Money)