Archive for the ‘family’ Category
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
I am dependent on the federal government. Yes, the hard right fiscal conservative who wants the central government out of education, finance, transportation, religion, speech and just about everything except for defense . . . is on the government dole. Every year I claim that entitlement known as our household ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
In my last post, I shared that even though things are financially tight for us, we still send our five-year old to a private school. I figured this might raise some eyebrows and Mike from Four Pillars was the first to point it out. Why are we incurring such a ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I have never played poker for money. I have played a half-dozen hands of Texas Hold 'Em just for chips with no money backing them, but nothing more serious than that. I won a couple and lost a couple and pretty much enjoyed the experience. On the other hand (no ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Mrs. Rocket and I have separate checking accounts.
We are a single income family, but 17% of my check is directly deposited into a Chase checking account in my wife's name. For most of our marriage we had a joint checking account, but after incurring a couple of overdrafts, we decided that ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
On Tuesday, I participated in the 107th Festival of Frugality at Cash Money Life. Patrick was kind enough to accept my late entry. I deserved to be the very last entry on the page. . . and that's the spot I got. Here are some of the highlights:
One of my favorite blogs, ...
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