From the category archives:

Decisions

The Obligatory New Year Resolution Post

For the last several years, our New Years dinner topic has been “What is your New Year’s Resolution?” YL12’s answer has been the same every single time. “Nothing. I love my life just the way it is.” I think I’m going to take half a page from her book this year.
I’m [...]

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One Step Forward and Two Steps Back

Thanks for everyone who stuck it through with me during my absence. Life has been very crazy here and we’ve just been working on getting back to normal. For just a glimpse of our week, I bring you the Minivan O Doom Saga:
Back in January, I wrote that I paid off my [...]

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Reduce Your Spending Painlessly – Revisited

Some of you may remember this post from the first time I shared it, six months ago. Most of you weren’t here yet though, and since it had some great information, I wanted to share it again.
Where Can You Reduce Spending Without Pain? This is the first question that many people ask when they realize [...]

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Are pharmacies costing you too much money?

It’s been a long time since I read a finance article on Yahoo! Finance. Mostly because the blogs that I subscribe to go much further in depth and apply more to my interests than the homogenized articles that get put on the mainstream websites’ Finance sections.
Today I gave it a look and read Budget-Trimming Tips [...]

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We’re NOT Enablers!

As parents, we have a lifetime of moments to, not only live our beliefs, but to teach them to our children. Sometimes we fail. Sometimes we succeed. Other times, we succeed BY failing. Last week was just one of those moments.
YL19 called Mark from college. As all college aged offspring (not children, because they’re grown) [...]

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