A few years ago, when I had over $15,000 of credit card debt, I was often negotiating with credit card companies to get better interest rates. I took a very active approach toward minimizing my interest expense on my debt and learning to negotiate with credit card companies was a key component…
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15 Creative Ways to Decorate Your Home for Free
I love to decorate my home. For me it is like having sprinkles on my cupcake. I even like changing things up a bit from time to time. Especially for all the Holidays and with each new Season. Decorations just set my mood and a tone for our home. Do you like to DIY decorate? […]
The $6 tip that made me rethink my approach
Last weekend I decided to take Linda on a mother’s day trip to Nashville for the weekend. She has proved to be an awesome mother to our baby boy for the last 15 months and she deserved a little trip away. On the morning we were set to come back home, we began packing up. […]
The one thing I would teach a recent college Grad
You just finished your degree and you are probably looking for your first “real” job. This is the perfect opportunity to decide how you would like your financial life to be. You have the choice to spend and buy whatever you feel like which will likely put you in heaps of debt.
Why We Should Give in Secret
Giving is giving, right? Not if you’re a Christian. There are ways to give — and God wants us to give — and there are ways we shouldn’t give. One way we shouldn’t is giving publicly. As Christians, we’re told to give in secret.
What’s Your Financial Personality?
What if there was a scale that you could use to classify your financial personality?
Financial and Life Lessons from 40 Years of Marriage
As I bask in the celebration of our recent 40th wedding anniversary, complete with surprise readings from each child, child-in-law and grandchild, I can see some great personal finance applications of the principles Jan and I used raising our four children.
10 Frugal Landscaping Ideas to make Your Yard Amazing
So, I’m starting to research frugal landscaping ideas to make my yard amazing this Spring. Bloggers have so many fab ideas! There are so many back yard projects, curb appeal DIYs that it’s hard to narrow down what will not only look best for my home, but also won’t hurt my wallet too much! I […]
