How much is your child’s education worth?

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 ...

Does a windfall cause you to overspend?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Do you lose track of "un-budgeted" income? Sometimes our plans for extra money don't add up. When we anticipate a tax refund or a stimulus rebate or a job bonus or other side income, we start to spend it before it actually arrives - and many times the math does ...

Mrs. Rocket on groceries

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Mrs. Rocket has posted here before and I am trying to convince her to guest post on Rocket Finance at least once a week. I think it would be great for this blog if we heard from her regularly. (Yes, it has taken me almost a year to figure this ...

More frugal relativism courtesy of Wendys

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

One of the reasons that I took a new job that moved us several states to the west was that the job change allowed for more family time. And so far, I have had more time to spend with the family. Actually, might be home too much now and I ...