One Caveman’s Financial Journey

I’ve been using Quicken since I got my first computer back in the old days of DOS. We didn’t have fancy graphics or the like back then; it was all drawn with text and other ASCII characters in 8 colors and we loved it!  Well, maybe we didn’t love it, but we didn’t know [...]

If you know me, you know that I push myself until I drop.  I’m always going and I always neglect to carve out time for sleep, rest, and relaxation.  As an offshoot of my perfectionism, I’m unable to really stop working unless I completely leave everything behind.  But even if I don’t have work in [...]

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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.
As my daughter becomes older, it is becoming harder to come up with meals. Most nights she eats what the whole family eats, but some nights I [...]

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After two years of living in our house, our bare off-white walls are starting to wear on us. With liquid funds in short supply, buying the many gallons of paint it would take to cover our walls would completely tap us out (and then some). But, as we discovered at [...]