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Family Finances

The office is a bit slow today, so my coworkers got into a big conversation about marriage (I think it may have started with Tiger Woods).  That morphed into a conversation about family finances, and it was very eye opening.

One coworker thinks that when a couple gets married, each person should put a percentage of [...]

Smooth Sailing

I was trying to come up with an idea for today’s posts, so I tried to think of some stupid financial thing that I did recently.

And I couldn’t come up with anything.

Of course, that’s good.  But it makes for some boring blogging.  Clearly, I need to go out on some sort of a spending binge. [...]

Falling interest rates

Last week managed to get away from me.  Work got kind of crazy when people finally caught up after all the snow.  While it was kind of fun to have a few snow days, we’re definitely paying for it now.  I’m hoping this week isn’t quite as bad.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve gotten a [...]

Doing Good for Lent

Hope everyone enjoyed Fat Tuesday yesterday.  I celebrated by running sprints at the gym.  I don’t do anything the normal way, it seems.

Anyway, the end of Fat Tuesday means that today is officially the beginning of Lent.  I was raised Catholic, so for me, the idea of giving something up (or doing something to better [...]

Snow plans.

Back to work today.  Looks like things are slowly getting back to normal, though the roads are still a mess with giant piles of snow.  I’m hoping the sun will help melt some of it over the week so I can get outside to run this weekend.  I’ve got a ten mile run scheduled in [...]