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From the monthly archives:
I took all the Christmas decorations down over two weeks ago and they’ve been sitting here ever since.
Who you looking at?
I blame the dining room. The completely unusable, waste-of-space dining room. White carpet, people.
Who puts white carpet in a dining room? Needless to say, we stick to eating in the kitchen.
This room serves as [...]
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I remarked to a friend recently about the phenomenon of how men tend to be into gadgets much more than women.
“Oh, yea.” My friend chimed in right away. “I call them his other women.”
What?
So she goes on to explain how she even gives them names: the TV’s Monique; the cell phone’s Stephanie; Cecelia (the blackberry) [...]
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Go check out my guest post over at Erin’s $5 Dinners: Tips to Stay the Course and Pay Off That Debt. It’s part 1 of 2, because I’m nothing if not wordy. (Who, me?)
I think Erin’s posting Part 2 later this week, and it’s much more exciting than Part 1 because it tells you how [...]
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At the beginning of January, before The Hubs left on his deployment, I made up a budget for January based on known expenditures for the month.
A few things have “come up” since then. *ahem*
Have I mentioned lately that this budget thing is still a work in progress? Baby steps, people.
Is It Possible to Budget Every [...]
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Fiscal Geek: We’re Debt Free!
Personal Finance Notebook: Five Keys to a Successful Budget
One Money Design: Get Out of Debt: Common Characteristics of Those Who Are Successful
Untemplater: Personal Finance Really Isn’t That Complicated
Enemy of Debt: Did You Have a Debt Free Christmas?
Bible Money Matters: How God Worked in the Life of One Debt Free Blogger: A [...]
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For obvious reason, I’m asking myself this question right now. Should you give money to those in need if you owe money to others?
I happened to catch some of Dave Ramsey’s radio show from yesterday, and he addressed this very issue in response to an email from a listener who wanted to donate a chunk [...]
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I’m slowly coming out of my denial that moving to a cash system is the step we need to take to really get a grip on a budget that we control. Particularly in light of our most recent tenants vacating that thorn in our side our rental home, it is vital that every dollar we [...]
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I’ve mentioned my real-life friend Erin a lot lately, I know. She’s promoting her $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook, and it’s just so exciting I can’t keep quiet about it! I feel like a know an honest-to-goodness celebrity. What can I say? I love living vicariously.
But mainly, it wouldn’t be responsible of me not to talk [...]
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Military wives have a saying (and yes, I mean wives, and I make no apologies for being sexist) that when your husband goes away, that’s when the kids get sick, the car breaks down, and the dog dies. Usually within three days. Though it’s been known to happen within 24 hours. Not that I would [...]
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The Hubs left on his deployment, though it still seems like he’s just gone away on a little trip. We already skyped last night, from his hotel in Virginia where he was waiting for his flight out of the country. Olivia and Peter took turns making faces through the camera. Conner mainly sat there saying, [...]
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