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Colorado is amazing this time of year.

The National Association of Personal Financial Advisor’s Consumer Education Foundation, Kiplinger’s and TD Ameritrade are kicking off the Your Money Bus Tour on October 1st to promote financial literacy across America. According to the tour website: The national savings rate in the United States is currently at an all-time low, which means millions of American … Read more

In July a television in our rental home was damaged by a nearby bolt of lightening. According to renters the TV smelled burnt the morning after a heavy lightening storm and wouldn’t power on. The TV is a Sanyo LCD 42 inch TV that we paid a little over $1000 for a year ago. We … Read more

So it looks like our 1994 Oldsmobile Regency Elite may need to be repaired again. We originally purchased the car in March of 2006 for $900, but since that time we’ve spent over $4000 on a series of repairs that range in price from $500 to nearly $1200. While I hate the idea of laying … Read more

With tropical storm Hanna making it’s way up the east coast we decided to head home from vacation one day earlier than expected. We packed up our belongings just before midnight, woke to the sounds of the storm just before dawn, and began the drive home to Maryland first thing this morning. I usually hate … Read more

Here are a couple of links I thoroughly enjoyed reading pool side: If you aren’t already familiar with the Cheap Healthy Good blog, I definitely suggest finding your way over there. I carve out a little extra time each week to catch up on Monday Megalinks. One of the most interesting links this week: Our … Read more

By nature I am extremely shy. At age six, at a children’s party at McDonald’s, I burst into tears when my father asked me to order french fries from the teenage cashier behind the counter. When I was seven he forced me to order my own meals whenever we went out to eat. I absolutely … Read more

I had every intention of writing a post tonight, but it is now 11 o’clock and I’m choosing sleep over blogging tonight. I’m about to turn down the air conditioner, turn up the ceiling fan, and settle in to bed with a two week old episode of Deadliest Catch.

On Sunday I submitted my first post, in quite awhile, to the Carnival of Personal Finance.   My absolute favorite post from the carnival was the The Psychology of Money: The Power of Suggestion Can Cost You by Lisa of Greener Pastures. Lisa points to a number of different studies in which the cost of … Read more

A few weeks ago my husband and I purchased a new refrigerator for our beach house in North Carolina. On the Outer Banks appliance shopping is limited to two stores: Home Depot & Sears. So we jumped in the car and headed out to look around. Ultimately we decided to purchase a bottom freezer refrigerator … Read more