Have you ever noticed how many articles there are that tell you to get rid of your cable subscription? Or call your car insurance provider and ask for a discount? It seems these recommendations are everywhere, but what if you’re ALREADY doing those basic things? What if your $8 Netflix subscription has already replaced your […]
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Okay, after a SLOW start we seem to be gaining momentum in moving things out of the house! We’re even MAKING MONEY on some of it. I also had a conversation with my mother while she was in town last week, that I was thinking about getting rid of several things she had given me. […]
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If I had my way, we would be putting every spare penny into paying off debts and saving for our goals, so that we can get there sooner and enjoy the freedom to do whatever we want. If he had his way, we would be putting a few dollars into paying off debts, and spending […]
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Sometime this summer, Don and I realized that life could continue plodding along indefinitely with only marginal happiness (okay – we’re actually pretty happy, we’re very blessed, but we were NOT living the life we wanted to live!). Unless we did something about it. For most of our relationship, we’d been escaping down to the […]
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Where were we? Oh, right – maybe work WAS the problem. After Don’s second heart attack, he didn’t go back to work. Instead, we started revisiting all of the ways that he might be able to assist with income without actually having a job. We’d both been self-employed previously, so we knew it took a […]
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We’re sick. Seriously. It took TWO HEART ATTACKS (his, not mine) – a direct result of crazy stress, crazy hours, crazy finances (and yes, smoking…ahem!), before my fiance Don and I realized that something about our lives was seriously broken. Probably, I should have figured that out long before….perhaps when I started having weekly anxiety […]
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