Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
You’ve tightened your budget. You’re spending less money on groceries, have lowered your utility and cell phone bills but you still want to save more. Now what? You need some creative ideas to get more out of your money. Luckily, I can help. Here are five unusual ways you can save more money. Raise Your Own Chickens Call me weird but my one of my
After waiting on a contractor for months my boyfriend is finally renovating his bathroom. He lives in a nice, older suburb right outside of town. While his 1950’s brick ranch is in good condition for the most part, the bathroom was not. Aside from the ugly blue tile, toilet, bathtub, and sink there was really one major problem: mold. A problem with the vent in
It’s no secret: banks are tightening up their purse strings. If you have bad credit you can kiss your chance of bank financing goodbye. Except for in the off chance you want to pay 30 percent interest. Then you just might have a fighting chance. Instead of checking around with banks and either a) getting rejected or b) paying thousands of dollars in unnecessary interest
I know it’s hard to believe, but Christmas is creeping upon us. In four short months you’ll be celebrating with family and friends, scrambling to purchase last minute gifts, and worrying about the balances on your credit cards. Yikes. But Christmas shouldn’t break you or be a point of stress. It should instead be a time to enjoy family and friends. A time to enjoy
Sometimes saving money can be tough. It’s a mind over matter type of thing. You know you shouldn’t be spending money but you just want to. You convince yourself that you need items that you really don’t need. I know what it’s like. Luckily there are some simple money tricks that can help you save. Let’s take a look. Calculate the Cost By Hours Worked
Unless you’re into extreme frugality, Mr. Money Mustache style, then you probably aren’t living on a bare bones budget and have no desire to. Still, it’s important to know what yours is. In the event of an illness, job loss, or other life altering event where you lose your income you should know how much money you’re going to need to survive. What is a
I’ve been thinking lately that I need to take my kids somewhere fun for a weekend and make some awesome memories, but I don’t know where to go. Unlike, most of mankind I don’t really care for traveling. It doesn’t get me excited. But I would like to have a fun, inexpensive, low maintenance 2-3 day getaway with my two daughters. Show Me the Money
It’s no secret that tiny houses are becoming extremely popular. They are the earth loving, money saving, minimalist’s dream. These tiny houses can often be no bigger than 150 sq. ft. (Don’t believe me? Check out this tiny home constructed in a truck. That’s what I call a mobile home.) With the media pining over tiny homes more and more people are starting to prefer
At the beginning of the month I decided I was going to tackle my number one financial sin: eating out multiple times per week. I went in with a plan and I can honestly say that I haven’t went through a drive thru one single time this month. And my cravings are gone. But the thing is, since I’ve been concentrating on this one goal
Do you want to save 50 percent of your income? Of course you do. Well, unless you’d rather use that money to buy stuff then you probably don’t care. Anyway, that’s so not the point. You could do amazing things if you were able to save 50 percent of your income. You know, things like buying a house with cash, retiring early, travelling the world,
