Bad News But Spirits Are Up

For the past few weeks, my wife would come home and say that the tutorial center she works at is loosing students. This is normal for the end of the school year, but the rate is worse than last year. Last week she was told that here hours would be cut down from [...]

Friday Link Love

I read some really good article while clearing our my Google reader queue. Here are a couple of the best.

The Dough Roller offers Multiple Income Streams: 10 Ways to Earn Extra Income: Some really good ideas here to kick start a savings account or cut down existing debt.
Free Money Finance asks When is [...]

Been Away Too Long

I guess I have been on hiatus from this blog. Why? Sick children, hospital visits, IEP meetings and associated paperwork, job stress, these are all things that can muck up even the most well-intentioned plans. I believe things have settled down. and I should be stronger for it. My expenses were [...]

Friday Link Love

That time of the week again.  This week I like to point out articles that pertained to our current economic state and methods of saving money.

 Jonathan at MyMoneyBlog writes Frugal Brown Bag Lunch Ideas + Cost Breakdown: Sandwiches Edition: Just a reminder to brown bag it vs eating out.  My favorite method is Soup cans, [...]

Friday Link Love

Had some pretty good ready this week, so lets get to the particulars.

Free Money Finance wrote about An Example of Turning a Hobby into an Income: As I take my photography hobby more seriously, I am learning of more ways to monetize it.
On that note, Photopreneur provide The Secrets of Successful Stock Photography: Stock photography [...]

My Photoblog is Born

A while back, I pondered whether I should startup a blog for my photography hobby. Well, yesterday I took the plunge and started one. For now I will keep it anonymous from here just for identity sake. I have been really getting into photos on my downtime, and been reading up quite [...]

Friday Link Love

I have not spread the love in quite a while, so I thought I would send it out today.

Jonathan at MyMoneyBlog talks about The Financial Freedom Ratio: A Better Way To Measure Your Net Worth?:  This seems like a simple and more effective way to gauge your net worth.  I will have to give it [...]

When it is Good to Spend a Little

My wife and I just spent a weekend in New York City. It was a wonderful visit, that was planned months in advance. The back story is that we in our 11 years of marriage never had a weekend getaway. Before the house and kids, we saved up as much as possible [...]

Where have I been?

The blog has been pretty quiet this past month. It has nothing to do with lack of material or motivation. We, as a family, have been extremely busy lately. Our little one’s appointment schedule is work than my work schedule. Add to that, our older ones deserves (and demands) more attention. [...]

Posts I Enjoyed Reading This Week: Exhausted Edition

Well, I thought the previous week was crazy.  This past one was even worse.  We had two close deaths to cope with on top of the usual Holy Week craziness.  This has kept me away from the computer for awhile, so no chance of blogging for the past week.  The funeral yesterday was mentally exhausting.  [...]