Daily Archives: November 2, 2007

Day 62

I’d hoped that today could be a “no spend” day but The Tank’s tank was empty and, as we all know, cars don’t tend to run very well when they’re out of gas. I sup­pose I could have waited until tomor­row but that would have been quite incon­ve­nient as The Daugh­ter has to be way [...]
Posted in Daily $$'s | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Behind The 8 Ball but It’s Not So Bad

I’ve just been tagged! It’s my first time and call me naive but I’m excited I was tagged by SAH­Mmy from SAH­Mmy Says for the Crazy 8’s meme. I’ve had fun fol­low­ing tag links back and read­ing everyone’s lists. So here we go with my Crazy 8’s: 8 Things I’m Pas­sion­ate About: Life My Fam­ily My Val­ues My Faith My Home My Friends Learn­ing [...]
Posted in Just For Fun | 3 Comments

Wants vs Needs

I was plan­ning another install­ment in my series about kids’ allowances [the first being Allowance — Yes? No? and Why?] but I’ve decided I need to back­track a bit and cover some back­ground philo­soph­i­cal ideas first. I believe that the foun­da­tion of a healthy rela­tion­ship to money (and healthy inter­per­sonal rela­tion­ships, also) is a solid under­stand­ing and [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, Kids and Money | Leave a comment