'Finances' Category
More Bills Than Money
Working with numbers is something I really enjoy, except when it comes to budgeting. Actually, I don’t even really mind setting up a budget and maintaining it. My problem is that there is always more bills than money. So even though I enjoy the numbers game and the challenge of improving our financial situation, this [...]
Some Financial Relief
Increasing gas prices. Increasing insurance costs. Increasing everything. But stagnant income. Had enough yet? I know I have! One thing in our favor right now is low mortgage rates. I decided to take advantage and see if we could help our financial position. We just refinanced our mortgage and got a much better rate. We [...]
Financial Friday – Financial Management Day
Every other Friday is pay day (for my husband, that is). It became a natural and necessary thing to balance the checkbook and pay bills on Fridays. It then became a habit, a part of my life balance routine. After reading Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace, and accepting that some big financial changes need to happen [...]
School Supply Shopping
Two school supply lists and an hour later… I’m done with our school supply shopping. Yep, all of it, in one afternoon. And I’m not the stressed out mess I usually am after the adventure either. How did that happen? I hit the store on the first day of the sale and more importantly, I went [...]
