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This year we’re keeping the number of Christmas gifts down. My wife and I are to the point where there’s not much we want or need. I’d like to get rid of some stuff in fact. Both of our sets of parents are well past the point where they need things, and our kids have […]

We’ve been using the furniture my wife got as a teenager in our bedroom since we’ve been married. It’s old, and a tad dated, but in fine shape and certainly does it’s duty as designed. But we grew tired of it (like a lot of things we’ve had for years). At the […]

In “How We Do It” I touch on my interpretation of the “60% Solution” budget. I wanted to take a little time to go more deeply into how and why we use it.
We tried many forms of budgeting over the years including strict budgets ($50/week for food and not a penny more, etc), less-strict budgets […]

I’m getting an unexpected $2000 bonus from work. Unexpected in that it was supposed to be $500 but the company changed some guidelines August 1st and now I’m getting $2000. My first thought was goof off with the money. I’ve been saving (slowly) for a Wii and now I can just go […]

We went to WaterWorld today. I’m glad I didn’t pay for the tickets! It took about 45 minutes to drive across town to get there. By the time we got parked and picked up the free tickets and got inside it was about 10:30. Then we had to go in and […]