Have you been to a library lately? For those of you who were scared off by the Dewey Decimal System, it’s time for a visit. You might not recognize the place. The card catalog is long gone, it’s been replaced with banks of computers. The...
Did you have a merry Christmas? What, it’s not Christmas yet? Whoops my bad. You see we’ve already been given so much that I got confused for a moment. In the course of a week we received a new couch (...
Harsh? I don’t think so. An estimated $97 billion dollars were spent on gift cards in 2007 and companies were able to keep almost $8 billion dollars in breakage, fees or unused money. It is one of the first things they...
Happy Rock’s recent post with all the free stuff motivated me to add one to the list. Seeing how I’m plastered all over the pages of Time Magazine (My family’s picture with President-Elect Obama is now also in the Special Commemorative...
In the spirit of gratitude and thanksgiving I wanted to list all of the financial related blessings of the last year. Another year debt free, except for the mortgage The ability to provide for two wonderful children Second adoption paid for...
I know it seems early to be bringing up Christmas (especially with the economy possibly crumbling around us), but the displays are going up in stores, so I guess it’s never too early to starting thinking about it. For the last...
In the last post I asked some questions about the nature of Christmas spending and what we could do to change. I wanted to share some of the changes that my family has undergone in the last for years to fight...
“About 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children.” “The United Nations estimates that the cost to end world hunger completely, along with diseases related to hunger and poverty, is about $195 billion a year.”...
