Labor Day Home Improvement Project

It’s Labor Day weekend and I’ve been laboring! Fortunately, not in the about-to-have-a-baby sense! PHEW! No, I have been working hard on staining our deck. Our deck has been in baaaaad shape for a few years now. It has been so bad that I never want to be...

Build Your Retirement

As many of you know, this blog began when my husband and I began Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. Before we took FPU, we thought we were totally money savvy, but our debt proved otherwise. In March 2011, only 18 months after starting our debt reduction,...

5 Tips to Save on Gas this Summer

Gas prices continue to spiral upwards and are spiking as they do every approaching summer. In these tough economic times, fewer fill-ups at the pump will help you and your family save significant amounts of money better spent or saved elsewhere. Short of investing in...

Craigslist to Save Money

If you haven’t heard about Craigslist you may have been visiting another planet. I have heard many, MANY people tell me how awesome Craigslist is and how they save a TON of money. I have a good friend who is a Craigslist Queen! Her husband is very handy around...