For those of you who are just joining us, I keep a record of my family’s expenses. Here is the tally for April: $830.00 – Mortgage $664.10 – Health Insurance $646.00 – Auto Insurance $639.00 – Daycare $339.33 – Groceries $237.75...
For any first time readers out there, I track my family’s monthly expenses. It’s been a fun little exercise. It’s nice knowing where our money is going. I’m flattered to see that I’m rubbing off on others. Without further ado, here...
It’s a good thing that February is a short month, because we here at the DD household went WILD!!! Here is the latest breakdown of my family’s monthly expenses: $1032.00 – Investing $830.00 – Mortgage $664.10 – Health Insurance $639.00 –...
Here is the latest installment of my family’s monthly expenses. Without further ado here’s the breakdown: $830.00 – Mortgage $759.00 – Daycare $664.10 – Health Insurance $484.69 – Electricity $452.50 – Groceries $180.00 – Pearl Jam $175.00 – Student Loan $158.23...
Set a good example of extravagance for all the world to see, that is what Laura Bush did as one of her final acts as First Lady. She unveiled the White House china that most 2 term first ladies are privileged...
I’ve had to shovel snow at least once a day for the past 6 days. I’m sick of it! I live on a corner lot so that means I have two long sections of sidewalk to shovel within 24 hours after...
I for one am glad the holidays are over. I am having a very hard time getting back into the swing of things. I think that is why it took me a week to tally up December’s expenses. That,...
For months we have had a very squeaky fan in our bathroom. The task of fixing the fan has haunted my todo list for months. It drained my energy and laughed as each day passed that I consciously put it off. ...
I hope you are all enjoying the holidays. For those of you who haven’t, the good news is that they are over. Long time readers might remember that I mentioned my Christmas Budget technique is to save up our cashback credit...
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...
