Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
For those of you that would love to have a Snuggie for Christmas but just don’t feel like parting with the $13, I’ve got a hot tip for you: Take any old fleece robe that you have in your closet and put in on backwards. Presto! It’s a homemade Snuggie. Happy Thanksgiving!
As the holiday season begins, I find myself feeling very thankful for a number of things. First off, I’m very, very thankful for my wonderful wife and amazing daughter. I’m also thankful that we have a roof over our heads, food on our table, and jobs to keep us humming along. I think this season feels much more real in terms of truly understanding what
I’ve been lightly following Nicolas Cage’s money problems over the last few months. It’s always a little bit surprising to see someone who has clearly made many millions over his lifetime deal with such large financial problems that he’s forced to sell many of his assets. When you look at the assets that he has acquired, it starts to become pretty clear why he’s in
I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I’ve been very busy at work making sure that I keep my spot on the competitive “large institution” roster. There has been a ton going on at work and it’s only going to get crazier as we end the year. On the home front things are smelling rather porkish. We knew it was only a matter of
The New York Times has an absolutely top notch interactive feature that lets you look at unemployment rates for various demographics. While I sometimes find myself getting a bit stressed at how high the unemployment rate is, when I punch in my age, sex, race etc, I find that my unemployment rate is 3.9%. While that makes me feel a bit more at ease for
I find this absolutely alarming. Over 60% of students getting free or reduced lunch across the country? WOW! http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=227970
In a sign that people are getting even more desperate, more and more people are visiting psychics with financial questions: More putting economic worries in hands of psychics, astrologers In the article the psychic talks about some of the questions she has been getting. They include: “Am I going to be fired?”, “Do I need to do a short sale on my house?”, “When am
I was talking to a frugal friend of ours a couple days ago and the subject turned to computers. I was shocked to learn that they had a Mac in their house as opposed to a PC. The reason I was shocked was because this family is VERY frugal. They live in a very modest house, carry no debt and minimize their spending more than
I had a fascinating conversation with a friend of mine today. Okay, maybe not fascinating but I always enjoy talking to others about personal finances and this friend of mine, who we’ll call “Billâ€, is never shy when it comes to sharing his financial situation. Between he and his wife I’d estimate that they make about $175,000 a year. You’d think that would mean they
No matter how hard we try these days, we seem to keep spending money on major purchases. If you recall, we recently had to put a new roof on our house to the tune of $13,000. That hurt, but luckily we had been budgeting for that for quite some time and were able to pay cash, like we do for everything else. After that major