January 2008

PF Experiment #1 – Starting a spending log

As an experiment, I’m starting a spending log. I’ve seen many folks suggest this on their own PF blogs. Yesterday, I spent: $25.01 – Gas $ 6.00 – Coffee and a cookie (PTA meeting at coffee shop) Mark spent: $101.27 – Home Depot (Repairs) $32.47 – Gas Not TOO bad. I ate breakfast at home, [...]

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My Kids are Scared of Being Broke

The setup: Every night, our family sits together at the dinner table. There are very few exceptions to this rule. There are two chairs of major import at our dinner table: The Special Chair, and The Topic Chair. The children rotate their seats every night so that each of them get an opportunity to sit [...]

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Spouses and Money Talks

I tried to have a budget meeting with Mark last night. This did not end well. Thus begins my campaign to learn to effectively communicate with Mark about the budget. In his eyes, we’re doing all we can with the planning and cutting expenses. He says he agrees with my perspective, thus there is nothing [...]

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Weekend at Disney

Mark and I are sometimes super smart people. Other times… not so much. 3 of our children (the youngest 3) have birthdays in a two week span in January. They turned 10, 10, and 12 this month. This year, we took them to Disney World for the weekend. Taking 4 children to Disney World is [...]

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Fighting the Urge to Acquire STUFF

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m very obsessive about spreadsheets. I love them. If I could tweak and adjust and toy with everything in my life and get it “just right” the way i can with the formulas in my spreadsheet, I’d never be stressed. Oh look… that thought train just went right [...]

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