It’s 2013. We’ve successfully gotten past the Mayans, and media exposure from the Fiscal Cliff hasn’t claimed any lives that we know of. Go us. January 1st is a time for new year’s resolutions, starting afresh, all that good stuff. Here are a couple of simple suggestions for your finances as we enter the new … Read more
I met Kay Bell a little over a year ago in Chicago. She’s kept Don’t Mess With Taxes as true to topic as any personal finance blogger I know: all taxes, all the time on her blog. (As you’d expect from a tax blog, no?) Recently she’s come through with nine end-of-year tax games with … Read more
We’re doing Christmas gift-opening a couple of times this year because we’re traveling around to see family. Tonight we spent some time opening part of our gifts. Yesterday after work I had only a few last-minute Christmas gifts to get, and it was a fairly fast and painless process, even at the start of the … Read more
Online retailers are kicking it up a level for Cyber Monday. One great way to take advantage of even more savings and make your holiday dollars go a little bit further is with a rebate portal like Mr. Rebates. Taking advantage of the extra savings is easy. Instead of heading to your favorite store directly, … Read more
I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving! For many people this traditionally a time of year for spending time with friends and family, and for being thankful for the blessings in your life. I hope that was how it was for you! Thanksgiving also acts as the de facto start of the holiday shopping … Read more
(Updated 12/3/2017) The holidays are a time of excitement, the smell of turkey in the air, the awaiting of the first snowfall, and — of course — gifts! Beginning mostly with Thanksgiving weekend, millions of Americans will flock to retailers in stores and online. With that much demand, stores will try to outdo each other … Read more
A couple of weeks ago we took an honest-to-goodness family vacation for the first time in what seems like forever. We went to North Carolina’s Outer Banks with three other families for a week. The weather cooperated nicely and we all had a chance to just chill out. (Notwithstanding the severe case of beach brain … Read more
Some of my wife’s Facebook friends posted some pictures the bumper-to-bumper traffic into the local mall / retail area today. It’s definitely not the best time to run in and out of stores for a few things, being a week before Christmas and all that. So we stopped at our local antique mall this afternoon. … Read more