One Caveman’s Financial Journey

Since I had Friday off as a sick day to finish recovering from my procedure, we took the opportunity to get some errands run around town. In between trips to Lowe’s for yet more supplies for the basement and a stock-up trip to the grocery store, we stopped by our credit union to take [...]

Out of curiosity, I peeked through our recent transactions in Quicken and compared them to my paychecks for the same period.  I came to a startling (but unsurprising) conclusion: If we weren’t carrying all this debt, we could live more than comfortably on my income alone and would be able to save plenty for retirement, [...]

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After “suffering” through a couple of hours of Olympic gymnastics with my wife, we finally got down to the good stuff: Swimming.  After a night of close races and upsets, it looked like the favored French 4×100 freestyle relay team would take the gold in world record-crushing fashion.  With the third leg [...]

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Man, snowflakes can really pile up fast if you’re not paying attention! When I started squirreling money away from surveys, “found money”, and side income, I didn’t think it would ever amount to much - and that’s why snowflaking is so successful. Little by little, your snowflakes grow into a [...]