Pecuniarities

Making mistakes is part of the learning process. Just as with horsebackriding, where you must get right back in the saddle after a fall, when you slip and fall off your saving wagon, get back on and learn to avoid the making same mistake again.

Sorry I’ve been MIA these last few days; I took a short holiday after putting together the Carnival of Personal Finance: Jane Austen Edition, but have a bunch of new posts in the works.
Calvin and Hobbes Lemonade Stand Economics
My Spanish professor from college forwarded me this Calvin and Hobbes comic the other day, which I [...]

I know this seems strange considering that I am currently holding a 2009 Financial Resolutions Blog Contest, but I don’t do new year’s resolutions anymore. Sure I still make general decisions/goals/plans/etc. for my life, but I no longer pin them down to specific years.
In years past I have set new years resolutions only to forget [...]

The topic for this month’s PF Bloggers Group Writing Project is our Favorite Christmas Memories. My favorite memory is our first Christmas in our own house, which was 2006. We bought our house in November 2005, but we had to travel out of the country to attend a cousin’s wedding – actually we were bridesmaids [...]

The Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners are no doubt the 2 of the most looked forward to occasions in America. I know they’re my favorites. But over the years, I have to come find that while I very much enjoy the dinners, they are not without consequences – mainly the side effects of overindulgence: an “enhanced” [...]

The Holidays are fun, or they’re supposed to be, but sometimes it gets hard to remember that when you have people coming over and a hundred things to get done on time. A good way to take some pressure off when hosting a large Holiday dinner party is to have a Party-Preparation Party the day [...]