A couple of weekends ago my computer got infected with a virus and my son the computer technician battled with it for awhile but finally told me it would be more thorough and effective to simply replace my hard drive. Cost effective to his way of thinking, since he was volunteering his free time [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
Every year, our son AJ likes to remind us of the year we raised our own turkeys. Before I tell you the story, let me remind you to make turkey soup from your leftover Thanksgiving turkey carcass.
Over the years in addition to turkeys we’ve raised steer, geese, pigs, lambs, ducks and guinea fowl. [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
Are you starting to feel the Christmas spirit yet?
Of course the stores are all decked out, and certain radio stations are beginning to play Christmas songs on the radio. But before Christmas comes the biggest shopping day of the year: Black Friday. The day the retailers expect to break even, go “into [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
For those of us in the personal finance realm, the answer to that question is pretty simple. Just say no to the title loan. Several times a week I hear this commercial on the radio and it goes something like this:
I know, I know, after all the kicking and screaming and defensive posts on why I don’t need a smart phone and here I find myself owning one and really, really liking it despite myself. Right up to the moment I purchased the phone, and agreed to the data plan I was having misgivings [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
For most of my life I’ve just muddled along, not really giving much care to my health, because I’ve always considered myself to be healthy. By that I mean I’m not sick often, and rarely have to take sick time off from work. I don’t have a huge laundry list of complaints… sure I [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
Dave Ramsey says “…your credit score is not an indicator of winning financially. All it tells you is whether you are good at borrowing money and paying it back. That’s it.” He says you can still get a mortgage without a FICO score by jumping through a few hoops, but guess what? [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
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