Why You Should Balance Your Checkbook
Why should you balance your checkbook? It’s so important, I’ve got several reasons. Nearly as important as why you should balance your checkbook is how you balance your checkbook. By using your hand with a pencil on paper, and calculator, you will better understand your statement. I know it seems old fashioned, passe, or even {Read more about Why You Should Balance Your Checkbook}
Speak Up, Please!
Since the launch of my professional site, I’ve been busy scheduling speaking engagements, being interviewed, and trying to learn how Google calendar works. Google calendar has proven to be the most challenging for this old-fashioned gal! After realizing I had created several calendars all called the same thing with duplicate dates sprinkled about, I’ve got {Read more about Speak Up, Please!}
Dinner Group Gathering
Our dinner group met earlier this month and as usual it was delicious. I think what I love the most about being part of a dinner group, aside from getting together with friends regularly in a lovely setting, is being forced to try new recipes. I don’t usually cook with recipes and I am usually {Read more about Dinner Group Gathering}
Just Get Started Today
Sunday: Goals and Taking Action Now that we’ve had the whole series of topics from Women’s Money Week and I’ve shared with you my ideas, thoughts, and experiences, what will you do to just get started today? Do you have short-term and long-term financial goals? Have you tracked your household spending? Have you set-up a {Read more about Just Get Started Today}
Debt: You Decide
Saturday: Debt Debt is not necessarily bad. Buying a house with a mortgage means you have debt. Home ownership is not a bad thing. Buying a house for more than you can honestly afford (making you “house poor”) is a bad thing. The trick is you need to decide the level of debt you’re comfortable {Read more about Debt: You Decide}
Meet Your New Friends
Friday: Money in Your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and Retirement I’d like to introduce you to your new friends: Early, Often, and Compounding Interest. Early and Often are twins who go hand-in-hand because they enjoy spending time together. The sooner you meet these two and make them your friends, the better off you’ll be. Save {Read more about Meet Your New Friends}
What Does It Mean to Budget?
Thursday: Budgeting What does it mean to “budget?” Everyone has a different idea of what a budget is and how it should be used. For some people, it’s allotting an arbitrary amount of money to be spent for a time period. For others, it’s deciding what to spend money on and what not to spend {Read more about What Does It Mean to Budget?}
Frugal Living is the Key to Saving
Wednesday: Saving and Investing When talk turns to investing money, there’s only one way to make it possible: by saving money. You have to have saved money to be able to invest it. The only way to save money to have it for investing is by spending less than you earn. Living frugally is the {Read more about Frugal Living is the Key to Saving}
Money and Your Honey
Tuesday: Relationships and Money Relationships and money can cause an uneasy alliance. It can create contentious situations. When you and your honey have differing goals, conflicting ideas or don’t know each other’s financial history, you are setting yourselves up for a losing situation. Poor interaction regarding finances in your relationship can keep you from reaching {Read more about Money and Your Honey}
Just Get Started
Monday: Entrepreneurship When it comes to clever marketing campaigns, Nike’s tag line is usually at the top. They certainly get credit for the phrase “Just Do It” which is a good one. But I think the more difficult part is to “Just Get Started.” My marketing campaign is “Just Get Started” because often times, that’s {Read more about Just Get Started}
Women’s Money Week
This week I’m participating in Women’s Money Week, organized by Elizabeth Sanberg (writer for Wise Bread and co-founder of GoGreenTravelGreen) and Jackie Beck of MoneyCrush.com. The idea behind Women’s Money Week is for bloggers to focus on issues related to women and money. This week long focus coincides with International Women’s Day. Our goal is {Read more about Women’s Money Week}
Love the Library
The library is a love of mine because it’s our major source of entertainment. I love everything about it! I love the reserve system. I love that I can save my searches and then go back to them later. I love how I can sign up for e-mail alerts for items I’ve searched for in {Read more about Love the Library}
Dinner Group in December
When our dinner group met last month at our home, it was just prior to the bathroom re-do project. We didn’t want to subject our friends to toothbrushes next to the kitchen sink and lotions/hair gel in the dining room. In their defense, since our dinner group is made up of neighbors, everyone lives in {Read more about Dinner Group in December}
Professional Site Launch
When I said yes to having a blog back in 2009 with my sister Mary, she was the one who came up with the idea. Mary was moving to Alaska and thought it would be fun for us to keep in touch about our crafty projects through a blog. She set us up on Blogger {Read more about Professional Site Launch}
Chicken Diva
Photo credit: Benjamin Brink, The Oregonian In case you don’t live in Portland, Oregon and aren’t a daily reader of The Oregonian or you’re not a fan of Go Gingham on Facebook, you may have missed this. Our backyard chicken, Caddie Woodlawn, was in the newspaper earlier this month. She’s rather shy and demure and {Read more about Chicken Diva}
