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. […]
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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.
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 […]
Subsidized vs. Unsubsidized Student Loans
When borrowing money for college, students have two different types of federal student loans that they can access: subsidized and unsubsidized. What are the differences between these two types of loans? Which type of loan is more attractive for students?
15 baby toys that you can make for free
Who said babies have to be expensive? I am due in a few weeks with baby #3 and let me tell you that I have learned that you don’t need most of the baby stuff that stores try to sell. Especially when it comes to toys. Babies tend to want to play with everything and […]
5 Free & Insanely Helpful Apps To Help You Get Control of Your Money
1. Personal Capital See all your accounts in one place with their award-winning software. Their free tools let you manage your entire financial life from one secure place – the one app to eliminate the rest of them. They have become the go-to app for managing your total financial picture. One of my favorite features is their fee-checker […]
