Happy New Year From Your Friendly Caveman

As 2007 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on everything that happened in the last year. Overall, it’s been a good year for us. We’ve weathered 10 months of single income and we’re still afloat. Now that we have nearly a year’s worth of data, we can analyze what we [...]

Long Weekend Coming Up

I’m looking forward to this upcoming long weekend… No, I’m not taking Monday off, so I’m only getting the weekend off, but this is the weekend I finally sit down and finish my business plan and fill out all the forms to start my new business. It’s going to be a loooong weekend.
Starting [...]

How I Added $1 To My Savings Account Today

Today a very welcome e-mail arrived in my inbox. It said “$1.00 price drop!” Those three words (four if you count pronouncing the dollar amount) made me very happy.
You see, about three days after purchasing some of my Christmas gifts on Amazon.com this year, I heard about a service called Price Protectr. [...]

Christmas Gifts As a View Into the Giver’s Financial Health

The last 2 years have provided my life with a lot of change with moving, the birth of my daughter, and the associated changes in a lot of family holiday traditions. And all of these have brought into perspective my changes in finances.
This is the first Christmas since I became “financially and future-aware,” so [...]