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 […]
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Making more money isn’t the answer to your money problems.
Last week I wrote a post about the most important thing we did to dig ourselves out of financial trouble. It was just one bullet point in the list of many, many things we did, but it was definitely at the top. Once we did that, it helped us to see how we had been contributing […]
6 Great Things About Fall
Living in New England, fall can be pretty spectacular, and most people in Connecticut probably love this time of year. But I don’t really like it. Because I love summer. And I hate winter. With a capital H-A-T-E. For me, fall is like the Sunday night blues of the seasons. I know what’s coming after it, and […]
Easy and Inexpensive Chicken Stock
It’s no secret that I love Costco. It saves me time, and it saves me money. One way I really save money buy shopping at Costco is by making my own chicken stock using their rotisserie chicken. Chicken stock is expensive. A quart costs about $2.75. At least. Since I use a lot of it […]
Why I Won’t Give My Kids An Allowance
Yesterday I wrote this post about how I have told my kids they have to wait 30 days before spending any of the money they happen to receive for their birthdays. And I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past couple days. I want to do a better job about teaching my kids […]
Birthday Party Guidelines For Your Child’s First Eighteen Years
1 year Don’t have a party. Your kid won’t remember. And you will spend most of your time trying to keep him or her awake when it is nap time or bed time. You don’t need to waste time making an Elmo cake from scratch or waste money on party decorations and food and booze […]