This is week four of the How We Got Our Asses Out of the Financial Black Hole series. If you are just joining in, my family is coming out of a 4-year-long financial shit storm where, among other things (and in a very brief nutshell), we filed for bankruptcy, were on food stamps, and had our […]
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A Letter To My Child’s Teacher
Editor’s note: I did send this exact email to one of the kid’s teachers, but wanting to not throw the kid under the bus, I changed the Number of the kid and I may or may not have changed the gender. Dear Mr. (Science Teacher), As you know, there is a personal science experiment due […]
Today was a great f*cking day.
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 […]
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 […]