Within a week of moving into our current home, I decided, while perfect for us, our beautiful house desperately needed a path from the street to the front door. While warm, dry days are fine for a stroll through the lawn, during rainy or snowy days, there really is no way to get to the mailbox without getting muddy. Also, it just feels more inviting to have a path to the front door. While my husband jokes that the invitation mainly falls at the stoop of the mail carrier and mostly unwanted door-to-door salesmen, we also have friends and family who, I’m sure, appreciate the red carpet treatment we’ve paved for them.
Now two years into living in this home, I decided it was time. Of course, my husband was out of town when this decision struck me like a bolt of naivity and manic gusto. I called my dad in for backup. Being the best dad that ever existed, he rushed over with his tools and elbow grease to help me remove the grass and dirt where the path would soon reside. ..
At the end of last month, we started to look at money in a completely different way. Here’s some small things that we did to save money here and there. Since I’m still in debt myself, I don’t feel I’m in much of a place to tell people how to save money just yet, so maybe some of my new friends from the world of personal finance can leave some additional tips or add to mine.
1.) Make a budget. We use mint.com to keep track of all our expenses. Since you are reading this and you’re probably in debt, you shouldn’t have too many of those, right? 😉 Before tracking our spending, we couldn’t figure out for the life of us where our money was going! Having a budget puts it all out there and encourages conversation about finances. Just knowing that my husband will be seeing all of the charges makes me think extra hard about every single purchase! Even trying to spin it in my head why I need that $40 nightly recharging lotion makes me squirm. Yea, there’s no way he’d think that a “necessity.” Having a budget makes me think big about the little things. ..
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It was the winter of 2001 when the rash first appeared. I know that because it started on my left hand and I’d recently become engaged. It was as if the ring and all its sweet intentions were boring itself into my being, changing my skin so even if I removed it, everyone would know I was his and he was mine. If it were just the appearance, I wouldn’t have minded, but the pain and itch would keep me awake at night, rubbing and clawing at it. My hand would swell up and burn with throbbing heat and disfiguring lumps of hardened skin. I joked that I must be allergic to marriage, or at least the ring, since it started shortly after getting engaged. Obviously, I didn’t believe that could actually be the case as I never removed my ring until my hand became too swollen to wear it. ..
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