It’s a New Year’s resolution revolution! Cheezy title? Completely. But it’s a year of new beginnings. And not just because it’s January. First, a little history: For the past year and half, we have been living with a very difficult family situation. It wasn’t the kind of thing we could solve, influence, avoid, or move along more quickly. It was large and in charge and
Life Under Construction: Happy Friday, fair readers! Do you ever dream of reliving your glory days in college? You know, skipping classes that start before noon; writing papers until 4am the night before they’re due; pretending you’re not completely hung over when you write your finals. Just living the dream. Next week I start school. I’ll have to figure out what being a student is
When you were fantasizing, did you want to get married here? I know I did. In part one, I asked you to dream of your perfect wedding without concern for money or resources. To imagine your ideal day with all the bells, whistles, and designer dresses that you can think up. At this point, you might be pretty bitter with me. You might be asking
By Phil S., part-time contributor and all-the-time husband As long as there have been video games, there have been people questioning their effect on the player and society. Did pong translate into mad tennis skills? Was Pacman an indictment of the Korean war? Is Grand Theft Auto giving our youth sound financial advice? Wait, what was that last one? Yes, hidden not so subtly throughout
Spending Update: Need Improvements Here is my spending update for last week, unfortunately it wasn’t a great week for spending. I went $30 over budget in my entertainment category ($128.31) largely due to being too busy and too frenetic – I wrote a post about it, read more here for “a day in the life of Lindsey”. In personal care, I spent $65.00 for a physical
Hi Cents’ers! I wanted to let you everyone know that I have a guest post taking about money as a couple hosted over at Making Sense of Cents. In the article, I talk a little bit about my previous attempts at managing my finances in a previous relationship and how that turned out to be an epic fail. I am trying to do things differently
When I started writing out what my resolutions, I had no idea how life-changing some of these goals would be. I had a foggy idea that I wanted to spend more time with my friends and make more money – that was it. Things started to come together when I began acting on some of my resolutions, like contesting and spending more time with my
