Personal Finance Journey

New Year’s Day and New Year’s resolutions go hand and hand.  Americans, tired of all of the overindulgence of the holidays and their bad habits, resolve to change their lives.  We all know the traditional New Year’s resolutions—lose weight, get in shape, stop smoking, the list goes on and on.  Yet, unfortunately, we also know [...]

I just read about an innovative Blog project on Bible Money Matters called My 7 Links.  The original idea came from The Tripbase Blog.  The concept is simple, link to a post in your blog from each of the categories below, then nominate 5 other blogs to do the same.  Let’s spread this far & [...]

Every Tuesday, I will post a link roundup of articles I’ve found while researching the Internet. Kids rule ~ Pups drool! Meet Otis, our new puppy.  We adopted him from the Humane Society.  He is a 10 week old Border Collie / Boxer mix. We’re going to have fun training this little guy.  I welcome [...]

Nothing to see here today!  I have a guest post published by Elle from Couple Money.  Go check it out: What We Spend On – How Real Life Couples Use Their Discretionary Income If you are new here, consider subscribing so you always get the latest info!  Also, check out a few of my favorite [...]

I am one milestone closer to being able to scream I’m debt free! Two major financial breakthroughs happened within the past week: 1.  My emergency fund reached the 3 months of expenses mark 2. I paid off the last of my “dangerous debt”* *Dangerous debt is a term I made up to classify the various [...]

It is my pleasure to host this week’s Carnival of Money Stories.  There were so many great submissions, it was hard to choose which ones to publish.  Some submissions were top quality, but simply weren’t “money stories” and therefore eliminated. Since today is Valentine’s Day, I’m going to attempt to entertain you with a My [...]