Can You Tell the Difference With Milk?
OK, so were on our way home and we needed milk, but we wanted to get home quick, the question was whether we should go to the store or go to the gas station. I was good with just going … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Savings Tips
New Years Goals: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good
2014 was a good year! Now it is time to talk about 2015. There has been a trend for people lately to dis New Years resolutions. I guess if you have no plan on keeping any of your goals that … Continue reading →
Student Loan Paid in Full
Got this in the mail today, it is a beautiful thing… Just wanted to keep it for posterity:
Continue reading →Financial Outlook for 2014
Today we finalized our budget for 2013 (Click here to see PDF) and created the new 2014 Generic Monthly Budget that will hopefully guide us for the new year. Overall 2013 was a good year for us. Following a strict budget we … Continue reading →
Hello Again Stock Market
If you follow our blog you might remember a blog entitled “How to Lose $50” that I wrote back in December of 2011. It basically chronicalled my really bad attempts to beat the stock market. I had taken $200 dollars … Continue reading →
How to Lose $500 Chasing a Squirrel aka. Visiting a Minor League Baseball Team.
It is summer and thanks to the RPOA (Riverside Police Officers Association), we were able to get discounted baseball tickets to the Lake Elsinore Storm baseball game. Many reading this post will have never heard about the Lake Elsinore Storm. … Continue reading →
How to lose $50 bucks in 6 Months
The stocks markets for 2012 closed out today. Overall the markets were ok I guess. We are not as bad as 2007, but the DOW is still not back to it’s previous high of 13k. Unfortunately, my stock picks were not that … Continue reading →
Looking at the Little Houses
Lately I have had this dream of owning a home. Not to own a mortgage, to own a home. I think if I were to truly analyze my dream it would be to totally debt free. I am not sure … Continue reading →
“Not Vegas” Mesquite, Nevada
Traveling in the far west USA can sometimes be a moral dilemma for me. I love traveling through Arizona and Utah, but I can’t stand Nevada. It isn’t that Nevada doesn’t have interesting things to do, but the major industry … Continue reading →
The 2011 Riverside County Fair, Indio, CA
If you’re reading this blog post because you think I can help your waist line survive the fair, I will make this post really short: you can’t. If you are reading this post because you want to have some fun, … Continue reading →