Author: Sandy L
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Don’t Save for Your Kid’s Education
Tweet Today’s article is the second in a series inspired by Kevin at Invest it Wisely. His article Challenging your Personal Beliefs asks readers to take a concept that you hold near and dear to your heart and think about doing the opposite to see if you can learn something from the exercise. When I…
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Don’t Put Money in Your 401K
Tweet Today’s article is inspired by Kevin at Invest it Wisely. He wrote a great article on Challenging your Personal Beliefs. The premise is to take a concept that you hold near and dear to your heart and think about doing the opposite to see if you can learn something from the exercise. Some of…
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Is Optimism Bad for Personal Finance?
Tweet Frugal Dad wrote a post the other day about doing Financial Fire Drills. Essentially, he said that periodically you should pretend like you’ve had an emergency and see how long you’d be able to last without income. He actually brings up some excellent points about the added costs of unemployment such as higher insurance…
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Favorites the Meat Price Edition Nov 14, 2010
Tweet This week, my <2 year old son has figured out how to open the fridge and he’s a snacker. My initial reaction is that one day I’ll come home to realize my fridge has been open for hours, all my food will be spoiled and my electricity bill will be through the roof. I’m…
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Things that Walmart Does Well
Tweet Lately, it’s become kind of en vogue to pick on Walmart and I wanted to take a moment to buck the trend and mention some of the things they still do right. Note, I’m not being paid to say any of these things. It’s just a couple of recent incidents made me realize that…
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4 Wheelin With Babci
Tweet Every November, Babci buys 20 heads of winter cabbage and makes just about the best sauerkraut known to man. She is very particular about her kraut making process. Here are some of her requirements: She has to have a special type of late picked winter cabbage She has a special way to shred it.…
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Dec 1st Writing Experiment – 12 days of Xmas
Tweet The Peanut Gallery has spoken and the next group writing experiment for December will be a Embellishment on the 12 days of Christmas. Rules: Write a Personal Finance or other blog theme related post that uses the 12 days of Christmas as inspiration. For example if you have a chicken, food, beer or fashion…
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And the winners of the jelly are…
Tweet Everyone who entered! Yes, well, since I only had 4 entries in my giveaway last week, I figured I’d just send you all one. Congrats to my winners: Kris at Everyday Tips Crystal at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff Molly on Money and Marlene Ullman Hey Crystal. Does this count towards your weekly kindness…
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What Babci Taught Me About Aging
Tweet As most of you know, Babci is an avid gardener, so for about 8 months out of the year, she will be out in her yard just about every day that it’s not raining. This week, when I drove up to her house, I found this sapling in the process of being transplanted. Babci…
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Writing Experiment – Cast your Vote
Tweet Since many of the participants and all the writers enjoyed our Monkey writing Experiment, it’s time to do the next one. I propose that we do it the week after Thanksgiving (DEC 1st) so that it gives more people time to learn about the event. We can put it in a few places and…