Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Today was one of those days that you remember for the rest of your life and I didn’t spend a nickel all day. Up here in the Pacific Northwest the weather has been a little abnormal. By that I mean that it snowed. It has been cold for a week and we even saw temperatures in the single digits overnight in a couple areas. With
Some friends of ours have decided to sponsor a family in need this year for Christmas. It’ s no secret that there are thousands and thousands of families who are in dire need of assistance. Everybody Loves Your Money has already donated to the fund and I wanted to offer all of my readers an opportunity to give what they can to help a family
Now that our daughter is in kindergarten we’ve discovered a whole new society. Before we had a child that was in school, we never really saw the elementary school society that has been active all around us. We haven’t really met a ton of people yet (mostly just chit chat), but the school and the PTA have all kinds of activities for us to attend.
Don’t forget to VOTE!
Having someone show up and build a beautiful new home for you is a lot like winning the lottery. Some people handle these windfalls better than others. In the case of this house, Dawne Kirkwood just couldn’t manage to keep it when she and her husband divorced. In Washington state everything is split down the middle during a divorce so the house has to be
The pull to spend money never ceases. As concerned as I am about the overall economy, you’d think I’d be sitting in my home letting the cash pile up from cracking down on our spending. It’s just not that easy. I’ve been conditioned over a long period of time to crave things. What kind of things? The standard stuff. I’d love to buy a new
It’s done: http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/03/news/economy/house_friday_bailout/index.htm?postversion=2008100309 All it took was to add an additional $100+ billion in pork to the bill to get a bunch of additional votes. My 5 year old thanks you lobbyists!!! Now all we need is for the baboon to sign it in to law. Maybe he’ll get confused and accidentally veto it.
As I watch the meltdown of major financial firms I’m paying particularly close attention to WAMU. They have a huge presence where I’m at and many thousands of people work for them around here. At one point I considered being a customer of Washington Mutual before I discovered credit unions. A few years ago, a friend of mine worked at my company and was concerned
It’s week four of the weight loss contest. If you recall, I’m having somewhat of a contest with my brother in law where we set a target to lose 17 pounds each at the rate of a pound a week. If either of us weighs more than we did the previous week, we have to pay the other person $10. At the end of the
With the price of everything going up, I’ve been very conscious of our energy use both in our cars, and in our home. I’ve always been one of those people that turns lights off anywhere that they aren’t necessary. We have been very good about only using lights in the rooms that we are in over the years. Having a five year old running around
