Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
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),
Every once in awhile, I like to go back and find a post from the early years. Oh, okay, the early months. This post is back from August and was actually first posted on the blogger site. Unfortunately, when I converted the site here, I lost all the comments, (this post had a lot of comments). Take a quick look at the article and see
Take a look at this article that talks about how to pay for that next family vacation. Basically, the article states that you should plan ahead a bit. If the vacation is important to you, then why not make it a priority all year long to put aside a bit of money. He also talks about potential ways to save on other things to make
I was reading a comment on My Open Wallet and it got me to thinking. What does good money management mean to you? As I’ve talked to people that have struggled with money I never realized that their definition of good money management and mine were completely different. My definition of good money management is that you have a plan, you know how much money