Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
About 6 months or so ago my neighbor told me that he wanted to get rid of a weight set that was taking up space in his garage. He had purchased this about 9 months before that and had probably paid in the neighborhood of $600-700 for everything. I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said, "Oh, just give me $200
Something that has always interested me is people’s connection to "stuff". Don’t get me wrong. I have the same issues as everyone else. If I’ve paid money for something, I feel a strange obligation to keep it for as long as I’m breathing. Lately I’ve really been trying to call myself to the carpet when I think I need to keep something indefinitely. What I
Gosh. There are lots of money events happening around our house these days. For starters, my wife bought me a gas weed eater for Father’s day. It turned out to be used (someone had bought it from Home Depot, used it, and then returned it). I decided that I didn’t want someone else’s potential problem and would much rather put the funds toward a new
Let me start by saying that my household seems to have incredibly bad luck with cameras. My wife and I have been married for over 10 years and in that time have lost or broke every single camera we’ve owned. Before the unlucky pattern was uncovered we invested in some moderately priced cameras. I still remember the fancy Sony digital camera that we purchased for
I finally jumped on the bandwagon and joined Twitter. I’m subscribing to a few PF bloggers. If you are twittering, leave a comment so I can add you! You can follow along with me at: http://www.twitter.com/elym I also have installed a Twitter plug in so that you can see the latest Twitters right here on the website. (Look over on the right sidebar)
Pretty much everyone I’ve talked to lately has a story about someone they know who is flailing their arms trying to keep their head above water. Nowhere is it easier to see than in the real estate market in your area. I’ve been watching real estate pretty closely around our area because I find it very interesting. About 2 years ago they built an upscale
Well, I’m happy to report that after nearly 1.5 years worth of weekends, our lake house just had it’s final inspection and we PASSED! No more inspectors and we can move in now. I can’t even begin to tell you how much of a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. No more deadlines, no more possible hiccups. When we embarked on this project
An Indiana man has just purchased a $25,000 Dodge truck with the change he has saved over 13 years. Wow. While I admire his feat of saving that much change over the years and I really admire the fact that he didn’t buy the truck on credit, I have to wonder how much sooner he could have bought that truck if he had simply put
I saw this video over on Scott Hanselman’s site. I found it rather humorous.
It has been a long time. Too long really. It was over 1 year ago that we embarked on this project to build a lake house. While we purchased a structure that was basically all the wood framing, there was still a lot to do to complete the place. In a year we have: Framed up the deck and built the roof over the deck
