• Money Saving Challenge

    The Easiest Money Saving Challenge Ever!

    My wife and I always seem to make a lot of big life changes at the same time. For instance, in the span of 40 long hours, we each started new jobs, sold a house, bought another house, and moved. That was probably 40 of the most difficult and exciting hours of my life. Even when we first got married, we waited only two weeks after our wedding to buy our first house. Just like any young, newly married couple, we did not have a lot of money saved (we had not participated in the easiest saving challenge ever). We also were not extremely experienced at fixing things around the…

  • Goals: Not Just for the First Two Weeks of January

    We’ve all made goals that we didn’t keep. We usually call them New-Year’s resolutions and they are often forgotten by January 15th. Well, maybe you haven’t forgotten your goals, but I know that I have forgotten many of mine. One of my goals from a couple of years ago was to be more positive. However, it was real tough to be positive when I was driving through 4 inches of snow on my way to work on January 15th. I also wanted to be nicer to my kids. Again, this…can…be…difficult…sometimes.