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I’m finding myself a bit stressed about my finances lately, and I think that’s why I’ve not had anything to write about.

It’s nothing bad – I’m not at risk of missing bills or anything.  And I’m still happily employed.  But I just find myself overspending lately.  Some of it is bad planning, some of it [...]

The credit cards are on FIRE!

I think my credit cards are smoking right now. There has been a lot of spending over the past week. Planned spending, but still. Those credit card rewards are going to look awesome this month!

Seriously though, I did some re-thinking about my spending.  And maybe I chose the “fun” route over the [...]

Furnishings

I have mentioned before that I’m slowly furnishing my house.  Moving from an apartment to a three bedroom house means that I have a lot more space.  (I have to admit, since I’m not using the attic due to lack of safe access, I could really use more storage space in the house, but that’s [...]

Oh yes, that budget thing

I have been a very bad budgeter as of late.

I blame the house.

But really, it’s my own fault.

I’m not in any sort of dire straits or anything.  In fact, I’m doing quite well, financially speaking.  But my spending feels a bit out of control.  I’m blowing budget categories left and right.

A lot of it does [...]

Little money, little effort, big changes

This weekend, my parents came to see my house for the first time. This was a big deal to me. I did the home purchasing process by myself (with tons of Realtor help, of course).  Thankfully, they liked what they saw.  I was really worried because their opinion matters.  But they agreed that [...]