Longtime readers may recall last March when I wrote about how I would be using our tax return to launch a “debt snowball” and pay off our car and student loan debt. I was excited, but also apprehensive about the idea–depending on only $1,000 in an emergency fund was scary, and I wasn’t sure if [...]

I was honored when my friend Amy at Frugal Mama asked me to be a regular contributor to her blog along with several other amazing women. My first guest post was published today. As my regular readers know, I have been a stay-at-home-mom ever since my son was born in 2008. Until now I haven’t [...]

In the beginning of June my husband and I made a rather impromptu decision to put our home on the market. We’ve been hoping to move to a larger house for quite some time, but we had planned to spend the summer putting the finishing touches on our current house before offering it up for [...]

I can always tell when tax season is here–local stores stock up on flat screen TVs, setting up the extra boxes in the aisle to await the influx of customers with their tax refunds. In years past, my husband and I have certainly enjoyed the extra money as much as anyone–tax refunds have helped pay [...]

Credit cards generally get a bad rap from money experts, and it certainly isn’t undeserved. I know from experience that credit card debt can be a very bad thing. In the future I will talk in-depth about how I got myself into, and back out of, trouble with credit cards. But first I want to [...]

Looking over my finances and paying some bills yesterday afternoon prompted me to finally take action on the cable TV expense that has been causing me angst ever since I left my job. Over the past five years our bill has gradually crept up from about $97 per month to more than $122 per month [...]