"I love you" may be a pretty powerful thing to say but gestures are even more powerful. Welcome to a list of fun, free, and frugal things you can do with your significant other. This was a ...
13 Sensible Upper Middle Class Characteristics & Status Symbols
'The 13 Status Symbols of Frugal Upper Middle-Class People With Comfortable Day Jobs & Reads Personal Finance' I didn't keyboard smash. That was the original title but Wordpress ...
We Saved $640 With a Money Jar! (And What We Did With Spare Change)
Two years ago, I was shopping for our weekly groceries in the Asian grocer near our house. In one of the snack aisles, there were a bunch of adorable animal-shaped coin jars stuffed with ...
Wanna See How Rich You’ll Become? Use Compound Interest Formula With Growth and Contributions
I sometimes wonder what people from the Dark Ages think about our flashy culture and unrestrained society today. Not to mention our smartphones, computers and auto flushing indoor toilets. That would ...
Why You Still Need An Emergency Fund While In Debt
I write these for my Soapy and all the Soapys we have in our own lives. You can read part of Soapy’s briefing here: Soaps is one of my best friends. She is a remarkable person and a free-spirited, ...
Our Marriage Audit – Do We Fight Too Much?
I got this idea to document and analyze the arguments my husband and I have occasionally. I'm aware of how deeper issues could be toxic to marriages, especially newer marriages like ours. It was more ...
“Help Me With Money!” – 7 Practical Budgets For People Bad With Money
"Help me with money!" - Ask and you shall receive: There are two types of people in the world when it comes to budgeting: the ones who are good on it, and the ones who are very bad at it. In ...
21 Cheap Pantry Staples List on a Limited Budget
Cooking at home? Starting out on a tight budget? I recommend the following basic pantry staples to keep in stock for a pinch! Cheap Pantry Staples Carbohydrates 1. Pasta Cost effective ...
The Hefty Financials Costs Behind Owning a McMansion
This Martin Luther King Monday is our official, guilt-free, lay around the house like a lazy cat day. For the few golden hours of waiting for our laundry to finish, my husband and I sat on our used ...
40 Everyday Household Items You Should Buy Secondhand To Save Money
I never knew how many free and secondhand things we used as the family until now. As I took a stroll around my home after the Christmas holidays it occurred to me that a good percentage of our ...
