In honor of the upcoming cash spending experiment I wanted address the benefits and drawbacks of spending cash. I will revisit this list after the cash experiment to see if I have anything to add or critique. Benefits of Spending Cash...
As The Rockette, The Pebble, and myself traveled down to the New Jersey shore for a weekend of camping at the Frontier Campground, I was thinking about a few articles I had planned. I didn’t bring the laptop, but I was...
This post will be part of a larger series called Friends Matter, which will discuss some of the ways that our social networks can support or hamper our personal journeys. “She has been starting to run with a bad crowd.” At...
I proved in my article about delaying gratification how buying a starter home could save you large sums of money. I want to reiterate the financial benefits of not over stretching ourselves and the drastic difference it can make in our...
Remember the ‘Marshmallow Test‘? It was a study from the 1960’s which found that preschoolers who were able to delay gratification at four years old were more likely to be socially competent, assertive, trustworthy, dependable, able to cope, and likely to...
I admit it, we do 95% of our spending on plastic. We have been using our debit and credit cards for years to pay for just about everything. The discipline is there, so everything is paid in full at the end...
So we battled for three years to get rid of our $70,000 dollars in debt….so what! Here are the benefits that being debt free(besides the house) and the process of becoming debt free gave us. Cash Flow – First and foremost,...
