Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I recently started running at the health club again. I had let my membership lapse since the club had been ratcheting up my yearly dues and I was a little annoyed about it. From a health perspective, I should have sucked it up and kept paying so that I could continue to use the gym. Well, I didn’t. I got a mailing from the club
Glad I’m not in her predicament. I’d say Dave gave her good advice. http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50422
When reading articles like this: http://www.kirotv.com/education/9297347/detail.html it reminds me that I haven’t started a 529 plan for my daughter. I spent about a half hour trying to figure out which plan is best and also requested information on the Washington state GET program, but I’m starting to get serious about opening a Kansas based 529 plan. It has a decent rating from the people that
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