Uh-oh, we've hit the big one in our Examine Your Motives series: Having Kids! This is the discussion between Stacie and I that got the series started. Disclaimer: This is not intended at all to be an essay on why you should or shouldn't have kids. … [Read more...] about Examine Your Motives Series: Having Kids
FILAM Personal Finance hosted this week's Festival of Frugality, where my article "Cheap Clothes Aren't Always a Value" was featured. The festival is collection of like-minded articles, in this case saving money and frugality, submitted by their … [Read more...] about Best Frugality Posts from the Festival of Frugality #89
Next up in the Examine Your Motives Series, we're going to discuss something close to my heart: Buying a car. I've told you how we lost $14,500 by stupid mistakes. We didn't think about why we wanted or needed a car. But that's why I'm here: to help … [Read more...] about Examine Your Motives Series: Buying a Car
Stacie and I were discussing some major topics recently such as having kids and buying a new car. As you may know, we recently sold our Chevy Malibu, and we've also been discussing adoption and biological birth pretty heavily. Then a light bulb … [Read more...] about Examine Your Motives Series: Introduction
For some of us, the word "Help" is a very bad 4 letter word. Sometimes we're so intent on doing things ourselves that we lose touch with our friends, families, coworkers and, eventually, ourselves. Peggy Collins writes about something she calls … [Read more...] about Are you too self-sufficient?
My coworker lives the opposite lifestyle detailed in the Frugal Lunch article. He knows about the article. He knows I try to bring my lunch to the office. But it's "just not a lifestyle for him". He makes it harder for me to just sit in the office … [Read more...] about Not So Frugal Lunch
Actually, I hit 808 subscribers. This was the count from yesterday as Feedburner shows the results one day later. This means about 808 readers requested my feed or received my emails yesterday. Why should you subscribe? If you subscribe to my RSS … [Read more...] about I’ve hit 800 subscribers!
You see Carfax mentioned everywhere. Everyone tells you to use them when shopping for a used car, right? They're a household name for vehicle history reports, but I have a secret to share.You know that we just sold our Chevy Malibu a couple weeks … [Read more...] about You can’t trust that Carfax report!
