Archive for June, 2011
Total Room Makeover for $35
TweetIf you’re new here you may want to sign up for my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting!I’ve spent the last 5 days working in my daughter’s room and wanted to share the results. She picked out a surfer girl theme. You can see our inspiration here. Before we begin you have to see the before pictures. I [...]
Saved Does Not Equal Saved
TweetYou know what irks me? That people can say “I saved $7 on this” but that doesn’t mean they put $7 in their savings account. Well, if you didn’t put the money in savings then you didn’t save anything! I’m totally guilty of using this phrase myself, but it’s the way our language is set up. [...]
I’m going to the Financial Bloggers Conference!
TweetI’m going to the financial bloggers conference in October! I’m so excited. I get to meet all my fellow bloggers in person! When they first announced the conference I had just barely started my blog. I wanted to go, I knew it would be fun, but I didn’t have relationships with anyone else in the [...]
A Kid’s Lesson in Frugality
TweetMy nine year old daughter had a chance at a money lesson this weekend. She went on a Girl Scout trip to California and was in charge of her own spending money. She had $45 to buy 3 meals. She had a little purse and I told her where to put her receipts, change, and [...]
Link Love: The Redecorating Edition
TweetHey guys! Is this summer flying by at lightning speed or is that just me? I haven’t seen my 9 year old daughter in weeks because she has been out visiting and having a blast. She is currently in California with her Girl Scout troop. She will be in charge of her own money this [...]
Enjoy Your Money
TweetThe inspriation I needed to start eating healthier came from an unlikely source. I wasn’t expecting it at all, maybe that’s why it worked. I was surprised. I started my healthy eating habits while watching The Colbert Report. Told you it was an unlikely source!! I’ve tried to find the exact episode but no luck. [...]
New Sunscreen Rules
TweetSummer is officially upon us and sunscreen is a necessary accessory this time of year. Wearing sunscreen can help prevent sunburns, skin cancer, and premature aging. All things you want to avoid. But did you know that the market is generally unregulated and that sunscreen manufactures can basically say anything they want on the bottles? [...]
Positive Thinking Can Affect Your Life
TweetPositive thinking and daily affirmations are for dorks right? Who needs that stuff! It’s all hooey. (Now there’s a word I don’t get to use often enough. Hooey!) You are already talking to yourself so why not be nice? Why tell yourself you are fat, or broke, or dumb when you could tell yourself you [...]
Smoothies and Shakes
TweetCrazy day yesterday. I had two extra kids in the house from 7 am til about 3 in the afternoon. I kept them hoppin’ so there wasn’t much time for them to get on my nerves. That said I didn’t have time to fool around on the Internet. So for some quick and easy posting today I [...]
5 Things Worth the Splurge
TweetI have another USAA special for you today. There was too much good stuff in their quarterly newsletter to let it go with just one post. Last week I featured their 12 ways to get extra money. Today I’m going to share their 5 things worth the splurge. It’s their list but my commentary. Interior Paint: [...]
