Yazan: admin | 02 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Finance, Politics
I decided today that I’m a socialist. This doesn’t mean I want our country to become a socialist state, but I believe in the socialist ideals. The socialism that first comes to mind (government setting everybody’s wages, telling people when and where they can get medical treatment) is not what I am talking about, this [...]
Yazan: admin | 15 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Finance
Last year we were going through some financial stress and decided we should attend Financial Peace University to learn how to take care of our problems for good. We’ve learned a lot, and met some wonderful people, and have a whole new outlook on personal (and business) finance.
Yazan: admin | 05 January 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Finance
I’ve seen several books by Suze Orman out there, but have never read one. I’ve read the dust jacket on a couple of them, but I’ve never really been that impressed with what it says. I’ve planned on borrowing one from the library one of these days to see what it is all about. I [...]
Yazan: admin | 01 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Family
Its that time again; time for the traditional “New Year resolutions” we all love to hate. We look at every piece of our lives we want to change and make a resolution to change it. We then bust our rumps to make sure we’re making those changes… for all of about two weeks. One by one [...]
Yazan: admin | 26 December 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: Family
Honestly this has been one of the more enjoyable Christmases I’ve had in a long time. In years past we’ve felt like we were being pulled in many directions. Our typical Christmas would be spending Christmas Eve at Cristi’s Mom’s house, and a rushed Christmas morning at home with the kids since we had to [...]
Yazan: admin | 09 December 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Finance
No, this isn’t some spam post. A while back I signed up to take some online surveys every now and then. I probably average 1-2 a month, and they average about 5 minutes each. Each survey pays some amount if you qualify, some as low as $.50 and some as much as $15. It had [...]