If you’re looking to get organized, today’s post is for you, and we’re going to start the series with today’s post about Organization Basics. Sometimes when one is looking to get organized, it’s difficult to know where to start. I think the best place to start is defining your organization roadblocks. An unorganized home, office or life could be attributed to one or more of a few different problems, such as: Read more
Today I’m going to share with you yet another great personal finance book find. The title: Rich As A King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing
When I was asked to review this book, I was a little hesitant at first. I’ve never played chess, Read more
Are you too busy lately? Do you feel like you need to simplify your life? We all have those weeks, months, and sometimes years when there is simply too much to do. We work to balance our careers, our homes, our relationships and our hobbies, but somehow, there never seems to be enough hours in the day.
Between the demands of work, family and trying to carve out some time to enjoy doing things that enhance the quality of our lives – like spending time with friends, taking in local events, exploring hobbies and such, life gets full very fast. It’s easy for that fullness to cross over into feeling overwhelmed, burned out and stressed.
This is where simplifying our lives comes in. We’ve probably all heard about this concept at least once before, but what I want to discuss in this post is how to actually go about simplifying our lives.
Read the rest of this post over at Frugal Rules.
If you’re planning to sell your home, there are several things you can do to streamline the process and help your home to sell more quickly. When we sold our last home, we had an accepted offer within a week. The home, although it had many great features, was nothing spectacular in terms of upgrades or special features. In fact, it was quite plain on the decorating front.
So why did our home sell so quickly? There were many factors:
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I spent 15 of my working years working in a bank on some level. I started out as a teller, then moved up to teller supervisor, then over to personal banker. Then I began work as a personal loan officer, and spent my last five years in banking as a sales assistant to a mortgage branch manager. You would think that with all of that financial training I would’ve learned earlier to stay out of debt, but denial can be a comfy place to live. 
Today I’m using the wisdom I gleaned from my years in banking, and looking back, I see three crucial lessons I learned from working at a bank.
You can find the rest of this post here, at Frugal Rules
I’d like to talk today about how to deal with rejection. Grayson talked in a post last week about how he saved $60 a month by simply making one phone call. Part of the post centered on the fact that we often miss out on money savings simply because we don’t ask. Often times we don’t ask for discounts because we aren’t aware that we can, and often we just simply don’t take the time to make the call. But more often, I’d wager to bet that we don’t ask for discounts because we are afraid of having to deal with rejection.
Can you believe it? Less than a week til the end of October. The weather this week has been pretty mild: up into the mid to high 60’s in the day time, which means we’ve been able to keep heating bills pretty low. Thank you, Jesus, for small favors. 🙂 My October challenge has met with mixed results: food wise I’m still doing really well: Had sugar once (fell prey to a DQ chocolate covered cone this week. 🙂 ) and flour three times this month. Total weight lost? I’ll tell you in a week. 🙂 Money wise Read more
So, I was perusing through James’ Retirement Savvy blog a couple of weeks ago, and found out that he had just published a book called Cream City Hustle
So, the garden is cleared out, ready to be tilled again for next spring’s planting. Although we didn’t do as well as we’d liked garden-wise, (our goal is to provide our family’s veggies for the entire year) we did have some great successes and gained much knowledge for next year’s garden. Read more
One of the things we’re starting to feel like we’re really getting the hang of as far as gardening goes is garden carrots. Carrots are super easy to grow and maintain, and as such, we’ve always gotten a pretty good yield from our garden carrots. We do eat them fresh, but mostly we peel, blanch and freeze them in a variety of sizes for later use. Here are some of the things you might want to know about growing garden carrots and how to preserve them for later use. Read more
