Critter Chronicles
Money Makeover
>The Budget: A Confession
> I feel the need to confess something here for you. I feel like a fraud. Tony and I have not reliably stuck to our budget since we moved back from Okinawa. All the talking I do about do about The Budget this and The Budget that and here we are not even adhering to … Continue reading
>30 Days of Thankfulness: Days 29 and 30
> An Emergency Fund You know that concept ‘Murphy’s Law’? It’s taken up residence here, with us. And, okay, we can’t say that anything that can go wrong has gone wrong, because I have a whole month’s worth of posts in my archives that prove that my life is right on track and there’s not … Continue reading
>Moving On From My Pity Party
>The house is in a much more manageable state today than it was just two days ago when I wrote here complaining about Tony and his lack of initiative. After I threw myself that virtual pity-party I set to work making Tony a ginormous honey-do list, and when he arrived home that night I informed … Continue reading
Are We Settled Yet?
I don’t know why, but I really thought we’d be completely settled in our house by now. It probably wasn’t fair for me to have those expectations; after all, we’ve only been here for a total of three weeks, one of which consisted of a couple days with an empty house and nothing to do … Continue reading
>Now: Day Seventeen
>Today is June 17th. We sold Tony’s car a couple weeks ago, kind of by accident. I mean, not by accident but we weren’t actually intending to sell it so soon; we’d planned to try getting it ready to sell around the end of the month instead of the beginning. An opportunity came up quickly, … Continue reading
>Going Green: 18 Month Update
>Remember the scene in Friends where Joey is showing the others the Pilot for the TV show in which he has the lead, Mac & C.H.E.E.S.E.? I can’t remember off the top of my head which season it’s in (I think it’s season 7, right before he gets back on DOOL), but the part of … Continue reading
>Total Money Makeover, One Year Update
>A year ago I wrote about how Tony and I were going to begin fully immersing ourselves in the Total Money Makeover program by Dave Ramsey. Since then I’ve written on-and-off about our progress each month, committing fully to the process of completely overhauling our financial lives and mindset. I wrote faithfully for the first … Continue reading
>Going Green: Month Ten Update
>This has been a very… interesting month for us, financially. As I said earlier this month, we’ve paid off all our debts except for the house, and I really thought that I would be more excited about this. But I’m not. I still feel as though there’s a huge weight on my chest that won’t … Continue reading
>The B!tch Is Gone!
>In my critter chronicles post last Monday I announced that over the past 12 months Tony and I have managed to pay off and/or eliminate $60,000 of debt, and that we had no consumer debt left. I was a little bit premature in saying so; at the time that wasn’t quite the case. As of … Continue reading
>Being a Nerd Pays Off, I Guess
>I know this is one of the only topics I address on this blog right now, but I can’t express how much I’m enjoying the Financial Peace University class that Tony and I are currently taking. He and I have never struggled so much with our finances that it’s seemed worth ending our marriage over, … Continue reading
