Quicken gives me a nice little breakdown, via a pie chart, of where my money goes each month. According to this chart, rent is typically our largest expense each month. That’s not too surprising, considering it is probably your biggest expense each month as well (except for the lucky few who either paid off their [...]
housing
I got the blessing from Girl Ninja to buy a house! Keyword there is, “a”, as in one specific house. Only problem is, said house is not for sale . Here is a satellite shot of the not-for-sale house that I would like to buy…. According to Zillow my dream house is valued at [...]
It’s about time. Welcome to our home. If you were actually walking into my house right now I would have a great playlist on, you would smell the Capri Blue anthropology candle scent (my fave) and I would be offering you something to eat or drink (possibly a bite of the apple crisp I made [...]
If Girl Ninja and I didn’t have a goal to buy a house, we’d be doing so much more with our cash. We’d be traveling, sleeping on a king size bed, driving nicer cars, giving more money to charity, etc. It’s crazy to think that a future expense can dictate so much of our current [...]
Saturday is moving day. You know what that means; renting a truck, getting our stuff out of storage, rounding up some family/friends, and spending a solid 4 or so hours lugging boxes, furniture, and decorations from Point A to Point B. In the last eight years, I’ve moved 12 times. Girl Ninja is no better [...]
Girl Ninja and I will be heading to over to our future landlord’s house to sign a leasing agreement today. After looking at about ten different rentals, we finally found a place we love. . It’s a one bedroom, 720 square foot, mother-in-law apartment, attached to a 1.5 million dollar home, about 30min north of [...]
Have you guys and gals missed me!?!? I’ve sure as heck missed you. That said, it was pretty nice not having to think of a blog post for the last four days. Don’t worry though, I’m back and in action…for good. I still can’t get in to the full swing of things (like stick figure [...]
