Welcome Back! Hopefully you're following along with 31 Days of Finances & Fitness! If so, you're doing Day 10 today - can you believe we're 1/3 of the way through??In the fitness arena, I feel like I won a major award, just by completing the first cycle of P90X! How about you? Feeling … [Read more...]
15 Healthy Habits for 2015
The New Year brings sets of resolutions for everyone. Maybe you call them something different, like goals, but in reality, the New Year gives everyone an opportunity to reflect, see what they did right and wrong in the previous year, and make changes - especially in less than desirable eating … [Read more...]
Money Talk – How Should You Celebrate Debt Payoff: Your Answers
Goals aren’t worth achieving if the journey is not a struggle. <--Tweet this! Over the past 17 months, we’ve struggled every single day to put Just. One. More. Dollar. towards our personal loan. While the struggle has been very real, so has the payoff as I look back at the numbers: in just the … [Read more...]
Money Talk – Does Money Control You? Your Answers
Every day, it seems, my life revolves around money. At work, I tell money where to go, determine what the money did, and decide where the money is going.Then I get home and look at what money came in, where we need to spend money, and find ways to save more of it.Focusing on money isn’t a … [Read more...]
31 Days of Finances & Fitness: Days 3,4,5
Happy Saturday! I'm feeling pretty lucky right now, as my daughter is still sleeping and I'm able to get some work done! Anyone else know that feeling?So I'm taking just a bit of time to wrap up days 3,4 & 5 of 31 Days of Finances & Fitness, to see how you're all doing, how much money … [Read more...]
8 Affordable Gifts For Women – Spa Edition
Have a stressed-out woman in your life? Calm her mind and win her heart with one of these affordable gifts for women this Valentine's Day! All of these gifts are under $30, and most are already packaged to give, sparing you the gift wrapping that I know my husband struggles with! … [Read more...]
8 Affordable Gifts For Men
Get your guy a gift he really wants (and will use) this Valentine's Day! Get him a gift that will stick around for more than an hour. A gift that is more of a "score" than a gift. But on a budget.Check out the gallery of affordable gift for men that he'll actually like: … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Make Money Online – While You’re At Work!
Do you love your job? I actually really like my job, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have it's boring moments.Or that I don't get frustrated sometimes and I need a break.Or that I don't get fed up occasionally.Maybe your job is perfect, but I'm not betting on it. For me, the … [Read more...]
I Started 31 Days of Finances & Fitness with a Bang!
Good Morning everyone! I cannot tell you how grateful I am that you all have stopped by here today! That means you successfully completed Day 1 of 31 Days of Finances & Fitness and you're here to talk about your experience. Yesterday morning, we officially had more than 1,300 people signed up … [Read more...]
Our Balance Sheet – Then & Now
I wanted to provide a little update from when we started (August 2013) to now (December 2014/January 2015) We've come a long way, but we've also made some mistakes. What we've found to be 100% true, though, is that frugality is hard for materialistic people like us, and that sticking to the budget … [Read more...]
