What is it about the grocery store that lures me to buy 10 of the same item? Why did I just come home with 10 cans of tuna, 10 boxes of pasta-roni, 10 boxes of brownies, and 6 bags of French Fries, when I only went in to purchase veggies and lunch meat? I don’t […]
Should I pay off my mortgage?
Here is a list of questions to ask yourself when considering to pay off your mortgage early. (They have been gathered from a number of websites discussing this topic.) Do you have other debts? – Obviously you should pay off all credit card debts before attempting to pay off your mortgage. Do you have an […]
Beach House… A worthy investment?
In July of 2005 my husband and I purchased a very cute, little, yellow, beach house in NC for $620,000. We bought the house because we love it. And if all goes well we’ll spend a good deal of our retirement there (we’re only in our 20s so that’s a long way off). If you […]
Want to see inside someone’s wallet? Take a peek at their car.
Isn’t it funny, how we stereotype people by the cars they drive. As a college student I drove my father’s rusty, old, Toyota camry station wagon to campus. I’d park it alongside the shiny BMWs and SUVs of fellow students. I used to hate driving that old bomb to campus. Thinking back I relish the […]
Easy Frugal Tips — Not quite a tightwad
So I’ve been flipping through the pages of the Tightwad Gazette in the hopes of finding easy ways to save a little extra money each month. I have been known to do some pretty frugal things in my day. When I first got out of college I was often broke. (Not because I blew all […]