Posted in Financial planning, Saving, Shopping, money, thrift, tagged cheap, entertainment, frugal, life, Saving, spending on April 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On another blog recently, a guest blogger posted about How My Net Worth Went from $-40,000 to $285,000 in Five Years.
The post is interesting, although many commenters questioned how that growth is possible - at least without a massive increase in real estate equity, which the blogger insists was not that significant.
What really interested [...]
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Posted in Eating, Environment, Financial planning, Garden, Green Living, Home, Saving, food, utilities, waste, water on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First, for those of you outraged at us Coloradans’ not being allowed to harvest our roof water, the Colorado Senate is working on it:
The Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources & Energy Committee approved a plan to allow homeowners to collect water that drains off of roofs up to 3,000 square feet so ranchers and farmers could [...]
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Posted in Credit, Financial planning, money, tagged debt, finance, goals, money, net worth, new year, retirement, Saving on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In 2007, we followed several finance rules, including living within our means and making more!
I can still feel cheerful about the latter before the tax bill becomes clear in the next couple of months.
We achieved several goals:
Became free of consumer debt.
Paid off all Christmas purchases already this month.
Increased our net worth by 25 percent.
However, our [...]
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Oh, you think your Christmas is green, do you? Well, read this and see how green your gifts are. http://sfcompact.blogspot.com/2007/12/holiday-ideas.html
I was interested to hear in the Democratic debate on NPR the other day that John Edwards says there will be no toys from China under his tree. I believe my daughter’s top two gifts were [...]
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Remember that sentence you read way back when in that one financial planning book about being prepared for contingencies … and how you promised to go buy life insurance that minute?
And how then you went to a movie and — oh, was that eight years ago already?
This past week, the father of an acquaintance of [...]
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