Morning!! Here are a bunch of ideas for y'all to marinate on today, courtesy of some really smart - and good looking - readers of the site ;) Including: gamer guilds, anti-bucket lists, value tracking tabs, credit score tests, mortgage time travel!, paycheck challenges, "what to do when I'm dead" letters, and then a half dozen ideas on gift giving. Let me know if
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Can You Imagine….
My beautiful wife was awoken by my 4 y/o this morning all full of wonder with a million things racing through his mind... He started rattling them off before he was even half awake! Mommy, can you imagine... if you had this egg, where you could put stuff in? Can you imagine, mommy... if you had a glass that was half red and half white?! Can you imagine... if the iPad had a
It’s 529 Day! (And Apparently “Beef with Banks” Day too)
Goooood Friday, everyone! How'd the week treat you and your money over there? Still on that path to financial freedom? Still telling all of your friends and lovers how awesome my blog is and that if they don't read it they're not cool?? Awww, you're too kind :) Though I hope none of them work at Capital One because I'm about to say some not-so-nice things about them...
Side Hustle #57: Production Fit Modeling
[What up, y'all! Gotta cool new side hustle for you today if you like the fashion thing (or just making some killer money :)). My blogger friend Ashley Stetts gives us the scoop on production fit modeling - a much more lucrative way to model apparently! And open to both males and females, though this article is very much skewed female FYI... Let me know what you think!] When
The Miser and His Gold
"The Miser and His Gold" - Aesop's Fables: A Miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden. Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there. He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the Miser had hidden, and one night quietly dug up the treasure and made off
Dirty, Boring, Smelly Money
"We often neglect the things we love, in favor of our likes and wants, because likes and wants tend to cost less and take less patience to acquire." - The Budgetnista BAM! Well said Budgetnista. The good stuff is definitely attainable but we always let those pesky likes get in the way slowing us down... It's as if we were human or something ;) But speaking of likes and
Happy Millionaire Day!
That's right, today is officially Be a Millionaire Day! Much cooler than Clean Up Your Room Day (5/10) or *gasp* Pi Day (3/14), but not nearly as tasty as National Fudge Day (6/16) ;) Unlike cleaning your room or gorging yourself on fudge, however, becoming a millionaire takes some key things to pull off. Namely, having the drive and an action plan. Without either you're
Savings Update + My Old School $$ Experiments!
Well, friends - we had our lowest savings yet from this Challenge Everything adventure. Only $253.37 banked this month which is a hard fall from the $800+ levels we were at just a few months ago. Still a nice chunk of change considering it was all free, but it appears my hustling in this department has since waned... Am I mad at myself? Yes and no. Yes in that I started
Graduation Tips, Gossip, and Investing Like Snoop Dogg
Happy graduation weekend everyone!!! Big changes for many of you out there - woo! We'll be celebrating ourselves while my wife walks up to get her PHD, and it'll be the first time I'll attend a graduation in like 10 years :) But so so proud of my darling wife. 7 years of studying, teaching, writing, and then finally knocking out her big dissertation which all leads to this
Quirky Christmas Traditions
[Guest blogger today - Anne - from Unique Gifter] Sometimes there are events that really stick out in your mind, years and years later, even though they were pretty inconsequential at the time. I’m about to share one of those things for me, which I perhaps remember because it was traumatic to my young mind? It was at a Christmas party for the local professional
