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 ...

Friday Stack: holy traffic, Batman!

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Rocket Finance is finishing up one of its highest traffic weeks ever. There seemed to be a high level of interest in the Our Story series about how my wife and I made up a $5,000 deficit in our annual budget without getting another job or playing the lottery. Pinyo, at ...

I thought I had a 3/4″ wood bit

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I have shared on numerous occasions that we put our family at financial risk with bad money decisions early in our marriage. As we start to pack for our upcoming cross-country move, I was reminded of another habit of mine that has cost us a lot of money over the ...