Late October is an exciting time for sports fans. Football is in full swing, we get the World Series and the NBA season tips off as well. A little something for everybody. With that in mind a couple of stores in...
A while back The Happy Rock wrote a post called “40 acres and a mule: free land still available in the US.” It describes how in Kansas and North Dakota there are some programs that still give land away, much like...
I know that probably sounds like blasphemy to a lot of folks out there, but I am starting to feel like it is the truth. As much as I like free markets, they don’t magically solve every problem. We all probably...
I bet most of you have already received your tax return before I even filed mine. This year I waited until April 14th to send mine in. Why did I wait so long? Simple. I knew we’d be paying in,...
Last November I made a post about how I decided to save some money by not replacing my shoes. Well as my luck would have it, I instantly broke the thingie-ma-bobber which holds the shoe laces in. So over the holiday...
As I mentioned in my About Page, “Your Money or Your Life?” is my favorite personal finance book that I’ve read. But this post isn’t about the book. This is about a decision that my wife made today. As you long...
I knew this was coming. This summer when I lost my job, my former employer gave me a severance package that included paying my family’s health insurance premiums for the rest of the year. Our current health insurance premium for our...
I recently finished a fiction novel called A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans. I am not sure how it got on our bookshelf, but I needed something to read one night and the dust jacket pulled me in enough to...
When I last talked about my future plans I mentioned that I contacted two local schools. A State School where I’d earn a teachers certificate. A Private School where I’d become a Rad Tech. Option #1 would take 3-4 semesters. Option...
I have no clue to what the future holds, and it bugs the heck out of me. To catch you up in case you’re just joining us, earlier this month I started posting here on THE HAPPY ROCK detailing my journey...
