Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
It’s Saturday morning and I’m finding myself sitting in my home office relaxing. It has been so long since we’ve just taken a weekend at home to relax that I have to admit, it’s kind of nice. Normally, I’d already be out working on the lake house, but we are getting so close on that, I decided to just take it easy this weekend. The
Well, our lake house is nearly complete. I hope to get a final inspection in the next few weeks. This is exciting for a number of reasons. 1) We will finally get to use the place. We’ve been working on it for so long, it almost seems weird to actually sleep there. 2) We can finally stop spending so much money on the place. I’m
Ugggh. It’s the first breakdown we’ve experienced since we made the commitment to drive older cars and not upgrade every time we get a wild hair up our xxx. Last Thursday my wife called me on her way to work to say that many of the lights on the dashboard were stuck on and the car was making a funny noise. Luckily this happened about
Sorry for the lack of posting lately. My handy dandy blogging software (Windows Live Writer) doesn’t like my blog these days. It all stems from the last upgrade of WordPress that I did. Arrrrgghhh. Also, please don’t assume that my lack of a blogroll right now means that I don’t want to link to all of my friends and favorite PF blogs. It’s all part
An Indiana man has just purchased a $25,000 Dodge truck with the change he has saved over 13 years. Wow. While I admire his feat of saving that much change over the years and I really admire the fact that he didn’t buy the truck on credit, I have to wonder how much sooner he could have bought that truck if he had simply put
A few weeks ago we decided it was time to upgrade the laptop. My wife wanted a newer laptop and asked if she could have mine and then we could buy a new one for me to use. While I’m always happy to get a new laptop, I really didn’t want to spend the money. As a general rule, I won’t buy any electronics or
A lot of people dread shopping with kids. I remember the many trips to the store with my mom like it was yesterday. I loved to visit the toy and candy aisle. It didn’t even matter what kind of store it was. If there were toys or candy in the building, I’d find them. As our daughter has gotten old enough to really desire things,
Crazy: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316580,00.html I was going to make some wise crack like, “Well, at least they are telling them that you shouldn’t always use credit cards” but I don’t think that would be appropriate either……. Not sure who the rocket scientist was that thought up this line of underwear for young girls. Not exactly the best idea. I’m now going to end this post so that
Every time I read a story that surprises me, the first thing I think is, “I wonder if this is another fake internet news story”. The fact that it’s in the Guardian makes me think it might be legit. Anyway, the story goes that if you use the drive thru at McDonalds at some UK locations and stay longer than 45 minutes, you could be
In an effort to save money, my wife and I will no longer be making left turns. We will now create a map ahead of every trip to minimize the amount of gas we use and the wear and tear on our car. Okay, maybe it won’t work for us, but it sure did for UPS: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09left-handturn.html