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From the monthly archives:
I recently started an allowance system with our 6yo and 4yo. Rather than just giving them $1 every week just for the sake of giving them a dollar, I decided to tie it to chores, making the allowance more like a commission. (I got this idea listening to Dave Ramsey, by the way, which you [...]
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Conner’s soccer field for his game this morning was very wet. It’s been raining here every night for several days, and sometimes during the day, too. It wasn’t raining this morning, but it was wet. Wet and foggy and humid and… wet. Wet, wet, wet.
You can imagine running around a slick, grassy field trying to [...]
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If you all haven’t been keeping up with the “$5 Dinners” blog, you should. Go there. Right now.
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Great blog, eh?
Erin is a real-life friend of mine, the first kindred spirit I befriended after moving to Ohio two years ago. I like to say that I knew her “back in the day…” The day before she [...]
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Our 14yo just had… Well, he just turned 14! I contemplated a few different gift options of things I just knew he’d like…
But when it comes to teenagers… Well, there’s really just one thing they want.Cold, hard cash.
The 11 cents? That was a gift from his 6yo sister. Even she knows where the heart of [...]
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We got tickets to go see Dave Ramsey! We’ve been talking about it for the last couple of days, and then today on Facebook I saw that Dave Ramsey was offering 1000 discounted tickets to his live events… Instead of $40, each ticket was just $9.99! I snatched those up, I tell you what.
With service [...]
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*Sigh* I promised myself I would turn in EARLY tonight. Alas, I got sucked in by a new commenter (Hi, M&J!) so I had to go check out her site, which led me to other sites…
I found a couple of amazing new bloggers who are on their own amazing debt-free journeys! I’m so excited to [...]
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August’s Progress
Debt #1 Balance in April: $2260.17
*Still Paid Off* (wOOt!)
Current Balance: $00.00
Debt #2 Previous Balance: $389.09
PAID OFF!
Current Balance: $00.00
Debt #3 Previous Balance: $10,270.55
Paid minimum balance of $68.00…
and an extra $400.55
Current Balance: $9,802.00
Previous Grand Total: $10,659.64Current Grand Total: $9,802.00
You might say our debt eradication took a beating in August. It’s a bit ironic, because our final [...]
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