Are we prepared to settle down in one area for at least 4 years? First, why 4 years? Basic rule of thumb in real estate is that you will not get your money back out of a house unless you live there for AT LEAST 4 years before selling. This could be more or less depending on what region the … [Read more...]
Favorite Post Roundup!
Happy Monday!Who else had a crazy week last week? I did, that's for sure! Check out the posts that helped me make it through :-)Cat, at Budget Blonde wrote Five Things I Learned From Getting My First Car. My favorite: Don't Trade it in it if was free!Making Sense of Cents posted an Ask the … [Read more...]
How to Save Money on TV with Amazon Prime
Get to know me, and you will know that there are two thing that I cannot live without: My shows, and Amazon! is anyone else as addicted to Amazon as I am?At any rate, when I was a sophmore in college, Amazon offered it's Amazon Student Membership for free! With it, you got FREE 2-day … [Read more...]
We Bought a House Young (at 22)! – Part 3
How much should we spend on our house?Just last week I released our "balance sheet" and budget. (You can see that here.) If you haven't sat down and looked at your finances that way, you should.....like yesterday! One of the biggest things we had decide before we even started looking at homes … [Read more...]
Favorite Posts Roundup!
Sometimes it seems like other bloggers are on the same page as I am! Love this!I don't know if you noticed, but on our balance sheet, we have a personal loan that is a loan from a family member. This post seemed especially relevant right now: Ask the Readers: Do you every lend money to … [Read more...]
We Bought a House Young (at 22)! – Part 2
Are we financially prepared to buy a home? Ha. Part of the whole "We Bought a House Young" things is that you have to kind of dive head-first into things, not being wholly prepared, but knowing that and keeping your eyes wide open.I think buying a home is somewhat similar to having a … [Read more...]
We Bought a House (at 22)!!
Ok, maybe not this house.....But still, we bought a house and we're only 22!Not that it was easy...Here is how it went down:The area that I live in was hit really hard by "the recession".....what this meant for us is that foreclosed houses were (and still are) abundant! I'm talking houses that sold … [Read more...]
Current Situation….
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 … [Read more...]
Why Start a Blog?
Right about now, I am asking myself this over and over again. Oops! Maybe I should have thought about that before I started typing away!I suppose the right way to start off would be to tell you a bit about myself ;-) I am a twenty-something female living in the Midwest (how boring is … [Read more...]
