I am a huge hamburger fan. The only trouble with living in the Chicago area in Winter is the cold weather that inevitably appears and makes it virtually impossible grill. I recently started reading the blog “Panini Happy” and stumbled across this post in the archives. I was inspired to make sliders [...]
I have to admit Days 6 to 10 (Mon to Fri last week) were pretty much a complete failure. I didn’t manage to get anything done. I didn’t even manage to Scooba the kitchen on Wednesday like I want to.
I felt pretty guilty about not accomplishing anything during the week, so I made [...]
So I like to think the first weekend of the project was pretty successful. The past few Saturday’s I’ve been pretty lazy. I’ve basically just sat and watched TV and movies all day. This weekend was completely different. Friday night I went to bed at a decent time which meant that [...]
Project Get It Done: Day 1
Jan 30
So it turns out that the big project I had planned to accomplish on day 1 barely needed my help. I assumed more of a supervisory role last night. We replaced the blinds in our Master Bedroom. I forgot to take a before shot and can’t find any pictures of the room [...]
After being in our townhouse for almost 3 years, I’m starting to find that there are lots of little “things” that need to be done that I haven’t gotten to. Every time I walk in to a room, I think “Oh yeah, I need to remember to do that.” I’m starting to feel [...]
My budget isn’t so much a budget as a detailed spreadsheet of where the money from each paycheck is going to go. When you think about it, that’s what a traditional budget is. You earmark $50 for this, $100 for that, etc. The way I do my budget is a little bit more [...]
Monthly Financial Meeting
Jan 17
If you’re a reader of any of the more popular Personal Finance blogs out there, you’ve probably read about doing a monthly financial meeting. I don’t want to go over the same things that have been spoken about in the past but just want to emphasize how good this is for a healthy marriage [...]
I think the first thing you realize when you start having more than 1 or 2 bills is that you need some way to keep track of what you’ve paid and how much money you have in your accounts. For my husband and I, we both started using Quicken when we were in College. [...]
In the past 2 years or so I’ve taken over the bulk of the bill paying and finance planning from my husband. He started a company with a friend and working on that and his 9-5 job started taking up too much of his time. Besides that, I love playing with numbers. [...]