We are playing a game of Can You Find the Leak at our house these last couple weeks. There is a leak in our back balcony sliding glass door. When it rains too hard, the track the door slides on fills up with water and over flows into the house. The water [...]
I have done a few projects around the house recently that saved us quite a few dollars that it would have cost to hire somebody to do them.
Installed swing set - Amount saved $200
With our new fence already installed (and at least $1000 saved in labor by doing it myself with family help), we decided [...]
We built a fence in the back yard the other day. The kids are old enough now that we want them to be able to run around outside without us constantly monitoring them but they are not old enough to let run around the neighborhood yet.
The fence ended up costing us about $950 to [...]
My biggest hobby expenses are eating out, going to the movies, season ticket for Iowa Hawkeye football, and blogging.
I’m working on the eating out and going to the movies a little bit less. The season ticket prices cannot really be cut and I am not willing to give up the tickets. But, what [...]
I do a fair amount of projects around the house. A couple recent ones involved replacing a toilet and a sump pump. Fortunately, they were two unrelated incidents.
I am good enough to do these projects, but I don’t always know exactly what I am doing. I often end up at Menards and [...]
I spend more money than I should buying snacks, breakfast, and lunch at work. All of that money comes out of my fun money and, therefore, out of the money I have available to save for my 2007 personal savings goal.
Today, I brought my own cereal and a bowl and packed my own lunch [...]
One of the best ways to have more money in your bank account is to avoid spending money. I am very bad with impulse purchases of items under $40. For some reason above that magic number, I can normally put off the purchase indefinitely. Under, and I am taking it home with [...]
One of the places I love to spend money is at the book store. I buy paperbacks but only end up reading about a third of the books that I buy. I currently have quite a handful of books that I bought both as new and used sitting around waiting to be read. [...]
