Category Archives: True Confessions

Cast The Beam Out of My Own Eye

30 Day Abundance Project, True Confessions
Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. The day after I wrote this post about my mom's $6480 washing machine, I read this post from Jesse at The Penny Saved: PMI, the nasty little blood sucking leech that's hard to get rid of. I cringed as I read Jesse's post, and felt just like a hypocrite as… Read the rest

How’s Your Energy Level? Adrenal Fatigue Explored

plan of action, Tech Stuff, True Confessions
This post is about my experience with adrenal fatigue and some thoughts on how to combat the tiredness. My energy level is terribly low. My entire life I've never been very energetic and in the past year to my dismay I've been slowing down even more. I had to see my primary care physician last Friday and she agreed to do a full panel thyroid test (the typical test comes back normal more often than not but the full panel… Read the rest

I’m Going to Start eBaying Again

Money, True Confessions
A couple of weeks ago I thought I'd give eBay another try. After all I have all this stuff laying around that “might be worth something on eBay”. I researched a broadband router that I'd bought from my old boss about four years ago. It looked like several had been bid on and sold recently for around $10. I paid $40 for the thing but I figured I may as well try and recoup some of the money I'd put… Read the rest

Depressed Beyond Words

True Confessions
Today's post feels embarrassing and humiliating. I want to be successful and make great strides in our debt reduction. I don't want to keep going further into debt. But maintaining my positive outlook, I have to remind myself that the choices we made last year were for a reason. Something happened that had to happen, we incurred debt, and didn't pay enough income taxes. All year long I knew it was going to be a problem, but I didn't take… Read the rest