Travel Tip #4
I got a very pleasant surprise when trying to find a discount for a car rental. It turns out my wife’s employer offers a few different hotel discount and one for Hertz for their employees. When I applied the code to the reservation it saved us $110 per week! That’s $330 saved for our three [...]
Mid-May budget update
There’s two ways to attack a budget: Spend less and/or make more. I based our budget on last year’s spending. I figured if we did happen to get any extra income it would just go towards savings. After doubling the budget in April I thought it might be a good idea to earn some money [...]
Triple coupons
As a guy it’s hard for me to admit this: I’m excited about triple coupons this week at our local grocery store. The sale starts today and runs through Tuesday but you have to get to the store today to get the best deals, sale items sell out really quick especially if the it’s free after coupon. [...]
Car rental
We decided right from the start we would rent a minivan for our trip in July. Both our cars are compacts so they wouldn’t be the most comfortable to drive around in for 3 weeks. Besides the extra room for us there’ll be a lot of extra space for luggage. We plan to bring a [...]
It was worth it
After a few hours of “work” we netted $350 from our garage sale. It was quite a bit more than last year. We had a pretty steady stream of people over the 4 hours, most purchased at least one item, a bunch of people left with boxes and/or bags full of stuff. It’s always funny [...]
Working parents
Happy Friday! It’s been fun (and hard work, I have the bruises and cuts/scrapes to prove it) to work on the shed project, which has gone from a three day project to six days due to plan revisions by the home owner. I’ve realized how lucky we have it now. Since I haven’t worked in [...]
Garage sale season
Time to get rid of a lot of clutter. Mrs. PFM has been putting things we need to sell in boxes for the last year then storing them in the basement. Over the year it really added up, we filled our 2-car garage with all sorts of odds-n-ends. The sale isn’t until Saturday but we’re [...]
Spending on sports
While watching the NFL draft online last month I got to thinking “how much time do I dedicate to watching and/or reading about sports?”. The only two sports I pay attention to are pro football and pro hockey. I grew up a fan and it was just something as a kid that was a regular [...]
Who is richer?
I read a quote yesterday that struck home for me, I’ll paraphrase: Those who are satisfied and enjoy what they have are richer than those who always want more no matter what their economic standings are. So true. We all know people who fit both categories. There’s the hyper-consumer friend who always must have the [...]
Spending on something fun
This doesn’t happen very often, I’ll have $600 to spend on whatever I want. Usually I’ll just put any extra income in our checking account to pay bills and not think twice about it. I even thought maybe I should just put it towards our mortgage principle (it’s the only debt we have). But now [...]
