Owning, renting and nannying

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

I have shared on a number of occasions that as long as we own a home in Wisconsin and rent in Colorado, we will incur a monthly deficit of over $500 per month. On top of that, we are sending our oldest daughter to private school kindergarten which brings our ...

The Friday Stack: free money, stimulus, blessing

Friday, June 13th, 2008

After all of the money we made through cc bonuses and bank bonuses last year, I feel like I should be giving cash to the Hustler. The fact is, he has come a long way. There was a time when he was pushing the ethical boundaries of Sprint's dropped call ...

How do you deal with a budget deficit?

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Earlier this week I shared that I use Excel for our family budget. In the spreadsheet I have set the formula in one particular cell to show our average monthly surplus or deficit as we move through the year. Since we are currently making a fairly large rent payment in ...