Archive for November, 2007
Expect Less – Be Happier
It seemed like an appropriate time of year to discuss materialism and how it is, or isn’t tied to your overall happiness. In the last few decades, it appears that everyone has slowly increased their consumption and developed some expectations about what Christmas means. The more presents you get, the happier you perceive you will [...]
Finally…… A Reason To Love Black Friday
I don\’t like shopping. I don\’t like sales. I hate the consumer driven holidays and I absolutely hate shopping on Black Friday. I\’d rather go skinny dipping in the frigid waters of Antarctica. (And I hate swimming). So, today was going to be a day like any other Friday. We were going to head out [...]
Lowered our HELOC Rate
From the If you don’t ask, you won’t get department: When we bought the lake house property and structure we used some money from a home equity line of credit that we’d set up months before. We didn’t borrow a ton of money but at the time we locked in the interest rate. I’ve read [...]
Building A House Is Hard Work!
Why didn’t anyone tell me how hard it is to build a house? We continue to make progress on the lake house. A lot has happened since the last time I posted about it. We’ve been hard at work every weekend and have finally gotten to the point that we are ready for flooring and [...]
One Laptop Per Child – A Great Cause
We decided to participate in the Give 1, Get 1 promotion over at XOGIVING.ORG. This promotion allows you to buy a laptop for a deserving child in a developing nation, and also receive one for your child. This wasn’t a hard decision for us for a few reasons: -We like to try to do a [...]
Woman Worked For Taco Bell For 30 Years Before Being Fired!
Wow. This woman worked for Taco Bell for 30 years. She started at $2.85 an hour and ultimately became a store manager. In the end, she speculates that her high base pay, from being there so long, caused her to be forced out. Please Lord, give me the skills to avoid working at Taco Bell [...]
Vote For Our Friends!!!
Our friends entered a contest for an American Standard new heating and cooling system and have been chosen as one of the 7 finalists. Their 10 year old daughter drew a picture of their house and their dad, Jeff, wrote a short essay about why they needed a new home cooling/heating and filtration system. If they [...]
My Blogging Friends
You know something? Blogging is a strange existence. I’m not nearly as connected to many of the other PF blogs out there as some are but I still feel a bit of camaraderie or connection to many of them. My blog is far less about the numbers than it is about the emotional existence in [...]