There are lots of ways to save money around the house. Here are a bunch that you can add to your collection of money-saving tips … Learn how to do your own repairs YouTube is your friend. There are so many tutorials on YouTube for pretty much any kind of repair you want to do … Read more
These two Chromium-based web browsers pay you for using them. No tasks, no clicking, nothing … The major web browsers Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. are all free, and they all do perfectly well at loading up your favorite web pages. They don’t pay you just to use them, though. That would be asking … Read more
Regain control of your financial transactions! Export all of them to a common spreadsheet with Tiller … Some of the biggest financial software companies do whatever they can to lock you in to using their products. I tried for a long time to get used to Quicken. I started and restarted several times at the … Read more
Here’s step by step how to budget almost entirely with pen and paper. We’ve stuck with it for years now … (This post was originally published on December 31, 2017, and was updated August 29, 2020). In the fall of 2017, my wife and I took Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University through our church. The … Read more
(This post was originally posted on June 21, 2016, and has been updated.) Eating at home instead of eating out is beneficial in a number of ways … Our rural-ish county is slowly catching up to the 21st century. It was only a few years ago that we got a Walmart, and this year we got a … Read more
You can get a good return on investment if you replace or upgrade things that annoy the tar out of you. Container craziness I’ve mentioned before that I come from a long line of pack rats. I’ve gotten better over the years, but old habits die hard! In between eating more at home because of … Read more
Being fat is no picnic, but the fact that fatness costs extra money adds insult to injury … Being fat isn’t the end of the world, but it isn’t a picnic, either. I’ve struggled with weight for the majority of my life, so the costs — physical, emotional, and financial — aren’t new to me. … Read more
Car loans are something that I hope never cross our household again. We had one briefly a few years ago at a teaser rate and paid it off fast. It was a sad day for our credit union when we paid it off, but a very happy day for us. It was $200 per paycheck … Read more