Minding My Own Business

Have you ever wanted to start your own business? It is something I have been thinking about for a long time. There is always something that holds me back though – mainly the need to support my family. Quitting a stable, well paying job to become self employed is a risk I won’t put my [...]

A $100 Hour – Cleaning Out Your Space

Do you have a hobby? If so, chances are that you have accumulated lots of stuff related to your hobby over the years. How much stuff do you have? If you’re like me, maybe quite a lot. How much of it do you think you don’t need? If you’re like me, maybe you think you [...]

A $100 Hour – Cleaning up on REO Properties

I was driving around this weekend looking for a house, and I was surprised by the number of bank owned (REO) properties I was seeing. Well, I live in Nevada, and we currently have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation, but what surprised me was that it was an older neighborhood, one where you’d [...]

Paying attention pays off

Last month, I made 3 simple changes to our checking account:

Exchanged our ATM card for a Visa debit card
Signed up for E-Statements
Used the debit card for 12 transactions that we normally would have used cash for

I’m not really a big fan of using debit cards for purchases, because like credit cards, they make it kind [...]