Family Time – Lemons To Lemonade
Family Time is worth more than money! So in this Lemons to Lemonade series, I’m going to cover how to maximize your Family Time with the kids. In particular, I’m going to describe how we turned the...
View ArticleEarly Thanksgiving Dinner, A New Family Tradition
Every since I’ve been married, our Thanksgiving Dinner would consist of driving to both of our parent’s houses and stuffing ourselves twice. While Thanksgiving dinner was always good when I was...
View ArticleTime To Sell Year End Capital Losses?
It’s the end of the year and time to consider if it’s wise to sell capital losses from investments or not! I had some stinkers from “The Great Recession” still lingering, so I do have some losses to...
View Article5 Ways To Lessen The Duration Of Undesirable Events
Undesirable Events: As a child, I would dwell on undesirable events such as major tests in college, dentist visits, certain family functions, and so forth. I use to dread the events the very moment I...
View ArticleEverything Goes Trash Night is Like Bizarro Christmas
Today is almost like a holiday for me! It’s the only day of the year that I do a bizarro twist in my trash routine and actually look forward to taking the trash out! You see, in my city, once a year...
View ArticleUsing Wasted Time To Your Advantage
Lately, I’ve learned to take greater advantage of dead or wasted time periods! Such “time periods” are when you are driving to work, waiting in a fast food line (or really any line), walking out to...
View ArticleLosing Weight the Frugal Way
To lose weight the frugal way is to simple eat less and consume food that are cheaper but still hold nutritional value. I’m tired of yo-yo diets, and intense workouts that I eventually get tired of and...
View ArticleFrugally Surviving The 2012 Apocalypse
This article is motivated by the various television shows that I have been watching these past few days. Let me first say that I don’t really think 2012 is magically going to be the year that the world...
View ArticleEverything Goes Trash Night – Bizarro Christmas Year 2
Our community has a special trash night were we are allowed to get rid of everything except mattresses. I blogged out it last year as “Everything Goes Trash Night is Like Bizarro Christmas” where this...
View ArticleMaking a Temporary Illness Work To Your Advantage
I’m still sick, but I’m optimistic about my blogging content once I get better… Sometimes getting sick works to your advantage because it breaks an repeating routine and the downtime enables you to...
View ArticleEverything Goes Trash Night – Bizarro Christmas Year 3
Once a year, our community has a special trash night were we are allowed to get rid of everything except mattresses. Last year, I wrote about my community’s trash night in an article called...
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