Easy DIY – Get Rid of Fluorescent Lighting

When we recently wrote about Our Love/Hate Relationship With Our Older Home, one of the things that came up in the comments section (thanks to commenters Karen and DC from Young Adult Money) was dealing with one of the unfortunate side effects of buying an older home. In particular, figuring out what to do with [...]

The Joneses? Never met ‘em…

You know that family down the street that we’re all theoretically aspiring to keep up with – the Joneses? We’ve never met ‘em.

This is how Kitty PoP sits in the front window. You’d swear he had no shame. No. Shame. At. All.

Actually, despite the fact that we’ve lived here for more than [...]

The Tree

If you read through the details on our August Income Statement and Balance Sheet, you might have noticed that we set a bit of money aside from last month’s bounty for some maintenance on our tree. And by “a bit of money”, I mean $1,200. It’s a non-trivial sum in my mind.

What’s the Deal [...]

How Do We Choose Properties?

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about how the Real Estate market is starting to heat up again, and that now is a great time to buy. That may or may not be the case where you live because Real Estate is so local (good time to buy in Miami? Maybe. Detroit? HA!), but I [...]

Outsource Or In-Source?

What separates us from lots of other couples we know? Mostly I think its our ability to step outside of our middle-class existence to save money in ways that our peers simply do not. Example-the AVERAGE cable bill in America is about $90, and you can bet high income earners can spend considerably more. Cleaning [...]

What’s a “Cookie Problem”?

One of my favorite books as a kid was If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. It tells the story of a little mouse wearing overalls who is given a cookie. In enjoying his cookie, he spills a few crumbs and that starts a chain reaction of his little mouse-OCD tendencies whereby [...]