Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
It’s that time of year when people start planning out their summer vacations and begin booking all their weekends. One of the things we have coming up is a wedding to attend in July. We live in Seattle and the wedding is in central Montana. It’s one of my last cousins to get married and we really want to go to see her get married
If you are a long time reader of ELYM, you know that I’ve gone through a bit of a transformation, or enlightenment. For my entire adult life I have drooled at and spent way too much money on cars. If I had a nickel for every new car I’d bought, I’d have….. well, I’d have more than a quarter. As a college student I owned
It must be something in the air, or perhaps it has something to do with all the doom and gloom stories about our economy, the price of oil, the failing housing market, the falling market. I don’t know, maybe I’m just crazy, but I’ve found myself thinking a lot more about doomsday scenarios when it comes to our finances. I’m going to be starting in
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
It seems like yesterday. There you were, two years ago, flashing your bits at me. How could I resist? Legal music downloads? And only 99 cents? My god, you were sexy. What better place to put my new legit music than on a tastefully created Ipod. That is, of course, when I wasn’t listening to this new legit music on my PC with the large
My daughter has been in swim lessons for a few weeks. Normally the routine is that my wife and daughter carpool with the neighbors (who have a daughter the same age) and I sit at home taking up space on the couch or surfing the web. For the last couple lessons, the neighbors were out of town and I didn’t want my wife to have
I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you are on, you’d have to be completely under a rock and out of touch with the world not to realize we have some serious issues with our healthcare system. I find myself wondering what it’s going to take to make some forward progress on this issue. From my point of view, I’m a financially savvy,
I, like everyone else in the country (or at least it should be everyone else in the country), am doing my taxes now. I have been dreading doing my taxes because I pretty much knew I’d be on the hook to pay in this year. Well, I was right. After running all of the calculations it comes down to a balance of a little over
Yes, it’s another day of the year that was created with the sole intention of getting in your wallet. All over the country today people will be busily rushing from store to store looking for that perfect gift for the one they love. Chocolate, cards, stuffed animals, yep they all help tell the one you love how important they are to you…… unless you live
Here’s an article from the “What were you thinking”? department: http://cbs5.com/local/auto.loan.defaults.2.645976.html Vivian Snyder bought a $100,000 BMW convertible with only $2500 per month in disability income. Somehow her income got stated as $8600 per month so that she would qualify for the lease. She definitely bears most of the responsibility for putting her entire retirement savings in the pot as her down payment and also