Three years ago we were about halfway down the financial oblivion hole. It had been about a year since we were making enough money to cover our expenses, we had just filed for bankruptcy, and I couldn’t imagine things getting worse. It was around this time that I really started being open about our financial […]
Archives for October 2016
Financial Friday — The third thing we did to dig ourselves out of the hole.
The last couple weeks I’ve been sharing what we did to get ourselves out of the financial black hole we were in for four years. First, we had to get real. The second thing we did was to figure out how we could reduce our expenses, and by doing these five things, we cut $1,660 […]
The IRS definitely wants your money, but not in the form of a Target gift card.
A few months ago I started receiving voicemails from the IRS. They were filing a lawsuit against me. For something. It wasn’t clear what it was. The message told me this would be my final chance to clear things up. I got that message like fifteen times. That was the first indication that strange things […]
Quitters never win? I don’t know. Maybe sometimes they do.
I have a predicament. I guess it’s not really a predicament. But I’m finding myself faced with a situation that, back in my pre-kid days, I would have known exactly what the best, smartest, healthiest, right thing to do was. Because you know everything there is to know about parenting before you have kids. Then […]
Because we’ve all been that mom in the parking lot.
Those of you who know me know the following two things about me: One, I hate when people don’t return their f&$#!ing shopping carts, and two, I’m not afraid to put it all out there. Today I was at the grocery store and I was in the parking lot (putting the ridiculously expensive cake I bought […]
The Time I Lost It On Number 7’s Birthday
Yesterday I wrote a post about mistakes and how I want to use those situations to teach and model for my kids how they are just opportunities for growth. And then this morning I fucked up pretty badly Ugh. And after that whole post yesterday, I’ve spent most of the morning beating myself up! It’s […]