Do you tip house cleaners? Do you tip a cleaning lady? How much do you tip? What is the tipping etiquette for house cleaning? It turns out the rule for tipping house cleaners depends on who comes to clean your home. Should You Tip Your House Cleaner? Many years ago I hired a cleaning service. …
New Year’s resolutions focus our goals and intentions on the upcoming year. Creating a list of goals is a worthwhile ritual, but why do we spend so much time looking forward and so little time looking back? Why don’t we focus more energy on year end reflection? You know, reflecting on all of the thoughts …
For two and a half years I suffered in silence with infertility. As a very private person I didn’t want to share any information about my desire to have a child or my failed attempts to do so. When friends asked about having kids I’d say, “We’ll see what life has in store for us.” …
Money Win: I haven’t purchased a brand new book in over seven years! I don’t love the location of our house but I do love it’s proximity to the library. When the weather is nice and time is on my side I’ll walk there with my son. If I’m in a hurry I can drive …
My oldest son has always been a builder. He’s the type of kid that wandered over to the giant wooden blocks in preschool and never walked away. While all of the other children eventually left to play dress up or craft colorful art projects my son stayed firmly planted on the rainbow carpet which muffled …
I stopped reading the majority of personal finance blogs in my RSS reader a few years ago. After reading blogs day after day for years I simply couldn’t find any new ideas that I hadn’t read or thought of before. I stopped blogging myself for this very same reason. What could I possibly say that …
I spend a fair amount of time talking to my children about money. I tend to begin the conversations when we are trapped in the car together. I find a captive audience is often an attentive one. Once, on an hour long drive to my parent’s house, I introduced my five-year-old son to the concept …
I’ll be honest. I think a lot about money. In fact, I think about money more than anyone else I know. This isn’t a new phenomenon for me. It’s just the way I’ve always been. Many of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories involve rolling coins, keeping my brother away from my stash of …
I’m an easy going girl with simple tastes. I don’t have an enormous bucket list filled with far-away destinations and extravagant desires. I have friends who want to visit every continent or touch their fingers in every ocean, but I don’t have such dreams. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly places I want to …
Although you will find common themes among those who have reached financial independence you will also find many differences. Millionaires come from all walks of life. You will find men and women both single and married. Some will focus on advancing their education to the highest level while others will drop out of college or …