The other day my stepdad called because my 18-year old brother wants to come and visit me for a few days. We were trying to figure out when this could happen and he started talking about needing him for the weekend because they were going to be working on the roof. Now, this immediately sparked my curiosity: Had something happened...
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My best friend’s husband asked me this question yesterday: “What’s the cost/benefit of taking the first 700.00 or whatever that’s going into the HSA rather than paying it off using my credit card which comes from my normal bank account?” We then got into this lengthy discussion of net vs. gross… and then he said the...
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Just over two years ago, I was in my best friend’s wedding. I was her maid of honor, even though I was probably one of the world’s most unlikely choices for such a… feminine role. Let’s put it that way. But, I pulled my duties off without a hitch, and with a couple modifications (like using an amusement park for our...
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Emotions. We all have them, well, I hope. If you don’t, I suggest you spend some the extra money that you probably have from your lack of emotions and see someone about that. What’s hard is that we allow our emotions to control a lot of things that we shouldn’t. If we allow our emotions to control our world too much, financial...
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I live in a fairly rural community for the most part. It’s one of those rural communities that has a bit of a city feel, but isn’t big enough to be a city. Even though it feels like a city, it does lack one thing: Public transportation. It seems the only ones available are for senior citizens, I see the busses from the...
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The other day I was in the grocery store and I broke one of my own rules. I usually never allow myself to go to the store on an empty stomach… well, I did. Oops. As I stood in the frozen food aisle, grabbing a couple things for the nights I knew I’d be crammed for time, I realized that I was craving onion rings. So, I bought...
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