I was reading an article today and saw that the CEO of my company made a hefty chunk of change last year. It turns out that our company did pretty well, so the compensation that our CEO received was significantly higher than the year before. I’m pretty happy with how our company did last year. We increased revenues and profit margins and paid decent returns
Lately I’ve been somewhat obsessed with the idea of tiny houses. I stumbled on to a Youtube channel that shows lots of different examples of people living in a smaller footprint. In this day and age, we are living in much larger houses than ever. During the economic downturn, I started to read about how builders were starting to build smaller houses to keep costs
They’re starting to talk about layoffs at work again, but this time it’s going to be BIG. I’ve been told I’m very safe from getting laid off but there are a lot of people around me that are going to lose their jobs and it’s going to impact those of us that are left by increasing our workloads a ton. With all this uncertainty at
I love this time of year. The anticipation of the next few month’s financial boosts always gets me feeling good. Once we’ve gone through those, then summer is right around the corner. So, what am I talking about? In February we get our annual bonus at work. In March, it’s our annual raises, and at our house we usually get a tax return about that
This year we worked hard to plan our shopping out ahead of time for Christmas and do as much shopping as we could online. We also tried to moderate how much money we were spending, not because we were concerned about how much but more because we just don’t need a lot and are becoming more and more conscious of “stupid spending”. By planning ahead,
One of my favorite expressions about the lottery is, “The lottery is for people that aren’t good at math!”. Well, I know two people that would probably disagree with me. This morning I read that there were two lucky winners of the Powerball jackpot last night. One of the winners is in Arizona and the other is from Missouri. You can bet those people are
I was doing some analysis the other day about my family’s spending patterns and noticed something. Since 2004, our spending hasn’t increased when I look at our monthly budget. In 2012, we are on track to keep our fixed expenses at 43% of our after tax, after investment income. That means that, after we’ve contributed to our 401K’s, invested for our daughter’s college and paid
As we get closer to winter here in the Northwest, everyone’s minds start thinking about power outages, storms, and cold weather. Normally we only have a few power outages each year and they traditionally don’t last very long. Once in awhile, we get hit with horrible storms that cause power outages that can last a number of days. Where we live, we normally don’t lose
I don’t know if I should admit this or not, but I’ve been spending too much time on Reddit lately. If you aren’t familiar with Reddit, it’s a website that sucks you in and never lets you leave. Okay, maybe that’s a bit dramatic but the reality is that there is SO much content on Reddit that it’s hard to walk away from it. If
I think they should write a book about people that have buyer’s remorse, or at least sort of have buyer’s remorse. I walked in to an Apple store a couple days ago and bought a 32GB Iphone 5. For those of you that don’t follow Apple products as if they were a cult object, that means I spent $299 on the phone. I also decided
