I think many of you might be disappointed with today’s announcement. Y’all seemed to set some pretty high expectations ranging from; we’re having a kid or buying a house, to I’m getting a Reality TV series. Sadly, no one has come knocking on my door with a camera, and Girl Ninja is definitely not knocked [...]
forward thinking
I went out to dinner last night with one of my coworkers (who I met two days ago for the first time) and we were talking about work, family, and other things that people who don’t really know each other that well talk about. As we were walking back to the hotel we are staying [...]
Guest post by moneysupermarket.com Don’t you just hate it when Christmas draws closer each year and all the personal finance blogs start with their laboured and tenuous Christmas-related posts? You do? Oh. Well, this definitely isn’t one of those, so please read on Christmas typically means spending more time looking at your finances than we’d [...]
Life insurance is arguably the most boring personal finance topic known to man. In fact, it’s so boring I’ve only talked about it once before. It’s time to try to make life insurance less miserable, and more tolerable. Are ya with me? (If you aren’t with me, this should be right up your alley). Since [...]
Are you setting yourself up for self-sufficiency? Who do you rely on for survival? Do you know what you need to do today, to have ‘enough’ 20, 30, or 40 years from now? If you’re planning on social security providing for you, like a mother’s milk provides for her baby, it’s time to start “feeding” [...]
Girl Ninja and I are going to put on our Sunday’s best and pretend to be something we are not. What, you ask? We’ll be pretending to be a couple that is interested in buying a home. That’s right suckers, we are going to attend some open houses over the next few months, even though [...]
We had our first snow of the year on Friday night and it was pretty epic. It was a light dusting over certain neighborhoods in the greater Seattle area that last about three hours. Although there was no SNOWpocolypse, Girl Ninja and I got a much-needed reminder that we no longer live in San Diego; [...]
