indulging · travel

Summer Travel and Guest Posts

With our family traveling to Spain for our 8th home exchange, I’ve got posts lined up to keep the momentum going here at Go Gingham!  We’ll be staying in small family run hotels (called a hostal in Spain), hostels, home swapping, and camping while in Spain.  I haven’t figured out how I’m going to bring… Continue reading Summer Travel and Guest Posts

budgeting

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… Continue reading Why You Should Balance Your Checkbook

lifestyle

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… Continue reading Speak Up, Please!

home + garden

DIY Project We Did Not Do Ourselves

We’re having the roof on our house replaced this week.  You might be wondering why we’ve hired a contractor – even our daughter asked why we weren’t replacing the roof ourselves – since we generally do all of our home improvement projects ourselves because it saves lots of money.  The truth is, we replaced the… Continue reading DIY Project We Did Not Do Ourselves