I can’t believe we made it through the entire month of May without posting! It has been completely crazy in the last six weeks: Don had another heart surgery and hospital stay We’ve been back to court not once but three times for full-day hearings on child custody My mother, who lives on the other […]
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As a general rule, before making a purchase online, I search retailmenot (no, I’m not an affiliate, I just love the site!) for any coupon codes I should be using. I then also check Upromise for rebates towards college savings (because why WOULDN’T you want extra $$ going into your little one’s college account). If all else fails, […]
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*Update – Rover and DogVacay merged this year, eliminating the need to decide which is better! I will say, since the merge, we’ve had a TON more traffic; all of which helps us hit our goals faster. A little under three years ago, we decided to explore dog-sitting to bring in a few extra dollars. […]
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Over the past several years we’ve purchased, restored and sold several project boats. I should add that, for our purposes, we’re referring to project boats that are easily trailerable (read: less than 30 feet long) power boats, typically with outboard motors. We’ve now flipped quite a few of these boats, that we’ve lovingly spent weekends […]
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Over the weekend, Don and I had a chance to sit down and really take a look at what we want to accomplish in 2017. It was an amazing process – and I’m happy to welcome Don as he kicks off a new blog series here on fishing, and outboard boat motor repair. More exciting, […]
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Recently, we discovered an unpaid medical bill (from a laboratory) from 2014 that had apparently been overlooked by Don. He’s not great with administrative and paperwork-related tasks (sorry, honey!), so it was mid-2016 before a collections notice came to the house and I realized that this bill was more than 2 years overdue! Of course, […]
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I consider myself a fairly grateful person. I am well aware that I am blessed in many areas of my life, not least of which include: Health Finances (even while in debt!) Friendship Family Romance (hello – engaged to be married, remember?) However, that said, we’re in a phase right now where I frequently find […]
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Okay, I admit I’ve seen people talking about Digit in the past. It’s an app that claims to automatically analyze your spending patterns and painlessly (and sort of behind-your-back) transfer money to savings for you, when it thinks you won’t notice. In other words, in theory at least, it looks at your checking account activity […]
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In the world of saving money and reducing expenses, the same recommendations seem to be written about over and over. Cut out your cable, find a cheaper cell phone plan, call your insurance agent for a discount.Another one that I think is overlooked is buying some things used. It’s amazing how many times we just hop […]
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Wow, this is scary stuff to publish online! After all, who wants to air their dirty laundry, particularly when it comes to finances? But, in order for us to achieve our goals, we need to take a good long look at reality, and make some forward progress. Toward that end, we started working with a […]
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