Category: Well Being

  • Is your biggest strength your biggest weakness?

    Tweet This post is dedicated to Crystal at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff. She is currently looking for a more exciting job and I thought it would be a good exercise to think about as one prepares for interviews. I inherited a trait from Babci that I can only describe as the ability to have…

  • Dream Homes and Gut Reactions

    Tweet One of our dreams is to someday retire, have a little boat and live on the ocean. Oceanfront property is not cheap in the Northeast.   However, with interest rates as low as they are, we decided to have a look around to see what was out there.  It wasn’t long before we  found a…

  • How Shallow are You?

    Tweet So, here’s a little poll for you. You enter a sweepstakes and you find out that you’ve won up to $50K in plastic surgery.  You can’t trade it in for cash, and it’s non transferable.  If you don’t use the prize in 10 years, it expires. Would you have surgery or some other cosmetic…

  • Negative Role Models

    Tweet A couple of weeks ago, I did a guest post on Punch Debt in the Face and spoke of Positive Role Models. I originally wrote the negative role model article first, and then realized positive role models might be even more important in the molding of a youth, hence the second article. So here…

  • A few favorites..The Buying Local Edition

    Tweet Get Rich Slowly wrote an article on Buying Locally, that also spurred a couple of other good ones at Money Reasons, The Simple Dollar , My Two Dollars. I particularly liked a couple of How to Make a difference’s reasons, one of them being keeping in touch with the seasons. I live in the…

  • Verbal Abuse, Brainwashing and Personal Finance

    Tweet I figure I’ll write a few posts on my dad, as he taught me many lessons in all the worst ways. A little background. My dad was not a very nice person. To top it off, he was a lazy, racist, manipulative, gambling alcoholic. Here’s a photo of us when I was born. You…

  • What’s the Window Into your Soul?

    Tweet Whenever I want to know how my mom is doing, I take a trek back to her garden and have a look. One of my longtime family friends  was touring my mom’s garden and it wasn’t long before she was laughing  and admiring the interesting things mixed in with her vegetable garden.  There were…