One Caveman’s Financial Journey

The following is a guest post written by my wife, The Cavewife. She regularly writes here about what’s on her heart as a frugal stay-at-home mom.
I’ve been spending a lot of time going through things for our church’s Spring rummage sale. We usually donate quite a bit and end up finding some useful things for [...]

My employer’s fiscal year starts in July, so every June we make our benefits elections. This past June we were starting to realize our looming financial trouble: The life we were living before the baby could no longer be sustained given that we now only had one income.
Insurance costs were becoming one of the [...]

I’m still recovering from a nasty bout with the flu and a few opportunistic follow-on ailments, but new content should start flowing by tomorrow. It’s been a while since I’ve been this drained by an illness. It really took me by surprise how quickly it laid me out and how long it has [...]

It seems sometime this past weekend, I picked up a nasty case of the flu. Apparently the flu shot did nothing for me this year. Oh well…
Time to get back to fighting my 101+ degree fever. Keep me and my family in your prayers that I can recover soon and not pass [...]