March was the month for financial misfortunes in our home. We own two older vehicles because we prefer to have no car payment, and both broke down this month. One car can be fixed for a few hundred dollars. The other won’t be worth repairing since the cost to fix it is more than half …
Personal Finances
For many years, I would spend money without paying attention to where it was going. At the time, we had two decent incomes coming in and I didn’t feel a budget was necessary. Not having a budget certainly caught up with me. After finding myself with very little money left at a time when we …
Early last month (January) I decided to do something drastic about our grocery budget. Our grocery expenses had increased dramatically and my meal planning was practically non-existent. A combination of being too busy and failing to meal plan, contributed to my grocery mess. Because I’m an all or nothing type gal, I decided to shop …
Is this the longest week ever or what? I was sick this past weekend, so I feel like I’m playing catch up with everything. It reminded me why I refuse to pack my schedule with tons of activities and why I like to keep things simple around here. The other day I was listening to …
During our very lean years we were faced with a situation where we needed to come up with a lump sum of money to pay for car repairs. We had no emergency savings at the time since we were barely scraping by. So we had to do the next best thing which was come up …