1. Learn to play violin. I have always loved the violin but my parents did not encourage us to be musical, so it was a faraway love. I’d love to be able to rock a violin like Sharon Corr or the girls of Bond or Lindsey Stirling. 2. Be out of debt! This is something …
How Do You Do Cheap Travel Overseas?
I have mentioned before that I am treading water in a sea of debt and that is no joke. Most of my debt is due to an addiction. Travel. I love to travel! I just can’t help myself when I see a good travel deal. I try to justify it in my brain with the …
Staying Fit On A Budget
The older that I have gotten, the more that I have noticed how important that it is to stay fit and healthy. And since I work from home, I end up spending far too much time sitting on my rear in front of a computer. To make matters worse, it seems like every time that …
Should You Use Square Cash To Send Money Online?
Did You Know That You Can Send Money Via Email With Square Cash? I don’t know about you, but for me the only site that I have ever used to send money to someone online is PayPal. I have a love hate relationship with them because I love that you can send cash over to …
The Cost of An Emergency Appendectomy Without Insurance
About a month and a half ago, I ended up in the E.R. with some excruciating pain in my lower right abdomen and back. I’d had the pain for a day and a half before going to the local hospital. You see, I had convinced myself that it was just food poisoning, especially since the …
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Your Health Is Not A Place For Frugality
Normally, I’d have read a bunch of really awesome blog posts and compiled my favorites in a Friday Finds post for today yesterday. But sometimes things don’t quite go as you plan, do they? You see, I had an unexpected visit to the emergency room this week that resulted in surgery for appendicitis and a …
What To Do With Money From Your Side Hustles?
I am a big advocate of doing side hustles for extra income, whether you want to break free of your boring day job and need income replacement or you just want to make a little extra cash. The thing with side hustles though is that you never really know if you’ll actually earn any monies …
Will Gratitude Help Your Finances?
I read an interesting article today on the Inc. Magazine website. While the article is on emotions and success, it got me to thinking about personal finance and money management. According to the article, a recent study came to the conclusion that people who feel gratitude are more likely than those who do not to …
Side Hustle Sunday: Selling On Etsy
If you are crafty at all, then Etsy offers a great side hustle opportunity for you. And you can be crafty in pretty much any way that you can think of – from sewing to painting to building stuff to photography. One of my favorite shops on Etsy is the Chicks in Hats shop. Simple …
Spending To Save Is Still Spending
Tell me if this scenario doesn’t sound familiar to you: someone excitedly tells you how they got two of the same item for only $2.00 (or some other amount) more than the cost of the original item, so they saved X amount of dollars on the that second item. I know, we’ve all fallen victim …