Author’s husband here, guest-posting. After broadcasting this blog’s existence to some friends and relatives, Sara received some concerned e-mails about our solvency. So listen up: I am the keeper of the books, and I say we are OK. To clarify: We are not broke. We are not avoiding calls from creditors. We are not staring [...]
Entries from September 8th, 2008
Announcement: Guest Author Posting Soon
September 5th, 2008 No Comments
I’m so excited to announce that my husband is going to be writing some posts, too! Coming soon…
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Why So Dumb: Second in a Series
September 5th, 2008 1 Comment
In addition to expenses going up and income going down, here’s another reason why sometimes we’re spending more than we earn. My husband and I took a money attitude quiz the other night that asked us to rate money’s importance to us on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being “the root of all [...]
Tags: money management · parasailing · scale of 1 to 10
Technical difficulties
September 4th, 2008 No Comments
I was going to include another reason in my last post (why so dumb) on why we are spending (sometimes) more than we earn, but am running into technical difficulties on WordPress. I am just too tired to try to fix them anymore tonight, so am giving in and will write more again soon. Good [...]
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Why So Dumb: First in a Series
September 4th, 2008 No Comments
A reader asked, not unkindly, why we’re spending more than we earn. The quickest answer is kids. Kids dramatically upped our obligatory expenses, while at the same time slashed my income. Many families, including us, can’t afford full-time day care, which for our oldest, a year and a half ago, was $800/month for three days [...]
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What Do I Mean By Wealth?
September 2nd, 2008 No Comments
I put up a rough outline of our project on the main page, and I used the words “fabulous wealth” as our goal. But what do I mean by wealth? It’s one of those terms that’s relative and that has no ceiling — by U.S. standards we are middle class. By Third World standards we [...]
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