Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
About 6 years ago I bought a table top table saw. It was $129 and was pretty much the cheapest way to go. The table saw I really wanted was $450 plus and there was no way I could justify spending that much. So, I sucked it up and bought the cheapy. Add on the $40 table for it and I was up to $169.Â
My wife and daughter went for a walk this morning and were gone about 20 minutes when the phone rang. My wife had taken her cel phone and was out on her walk. She asked me to drive over to where they were to check out a garage sale. I’ll confess that I normally HATE garage sales. My stubborn point of view is that we
I suppose it was inevitable. My daughter has reached that precious milestone of wanting everything she sees in the store and she believes with the right approach, she’ll get it. I guess it’s been slowly evolving, but I really noticed it last time we went to the store. She’s almost 3 years old and firmly has a grasp on the idea that getting more “things” is
You know something. It’s about this time every year when my wife and I look at our calendar and realize that just about every weekend for our entire summer is booked. Between the birthday parties for all of our family, planned trips, and just random other “get togethers” we are pretty much packed. The other part of this story is that a lot of these
We are off to the family cabin to spend the day with all of my family, including my mother. :) It should be a great day. The weather is clear and sunny with temperatures going in to the mid 70’s. We are taking our Seadoo up with us and my sister is bringing her boat as well. All the nephews are very excited to go
Yeah, I know I have. We have saved a TON of money by having Tivo. We don’t rent nearly as many movies as we used to. If you recall, we spent a total of $155 to get a 140hr Tivo unit and that also covered the first year of service. (The deal was that we got a brand new 140 hour unit if we prepaid
It’s been a rough weekend. Saturday evening I got sick and didn’t sleep all night. I stayed in bed all day Sunday which is the first time I’ve done that in about 20 years. Between sleeping and getting up to be sick again, I watched a little TV. As I flipped through the channels, I finally came upon a show called “The Real Housewives of
There are a few things in life that cause a bit of a reaction in people. There’s the whole “Windows or Mac” thing, or “Republican or Democrat”, “Gay marriage or no gay marriage”, “Abortion or no abortion”. Obviously some of these are more serious than others. There is one other that springs to mind when we talk about opinions and that’s “homeowners association, or no
This is the kind of crap that my daughter will see on TV as she gets older. $150,000 for a birthday party? This girl is going to have REAL issues (as if she doesn’t already): http://www.azcentral.com/ent/tv/articles/0426marissa0426.html Definitely worth reading as entertainment.
On the subject of things that don’t seem to make sense……. Kiplinger has an article about how consumer confidence is at a 4 year high. I confess. This just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Gas prices are at an all time high, interest rates are rising which could have multiple impacts on consumers (credit card rates increasing, adjustable mortgages going up etc),