One Caveman’s Financial Journey

This has been a rough third quarter here with us tapping our savings to pay for finishing our basement and to pay down debt, so our cash flow has been decidedly negative for some time.  Couple that with preparing for the new baby and setting up my daughter’s new bedroom, we’re nearly out of cash [...]

This weekend on our monthly trip to Sam’s Club to stock up our pantry, we went in with our usual shopping list of diapers, cereal, cleaning supplies, frozen foods, and ground meat.  We nonchalantly strolled through our “open while under renovation” club warehouse as we have every month for the last few years - completely [...]

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Everyone has some sort of skill.  Regardless of if you are a doctor, a lawyer, a bricklayer, or if you can just lift boxes, there is someone out there who needs access to your skills. In the corporate world, you trade access to these skills by the hour for a set amount of [...]

Photo credit: Celeste

Last week, as I enjoyed a nice, relaxing at-home vacation, I realized I couldn’t get any writing done with the distractions in my home. Between the TV, my daughter, the construction going on in my basement, and various chores waiting to be done at home, I couldn’t gather my thoughts long enough to [...]