Category Archives: Deep Thoughts

Save Money: Avoid Risky Behavior

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 18, 2010
After putting in over three hours of stren­u­ous phys­i­cal labor on my front-yard land­scap­ing project, I packed up my tools and plopped down on the couch to catch the last half an hour of Oprah.  Today’s show was about the dan­gers of dis­tracted dri­ving; dri­ving while talk­ing on the cell phone or texting. While I’ve always [...]
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Updated Allowances

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 12, 2009
Just about the only major change to our fam­ily finan­cial poli­cies made dur­ing my blog­ging sab­bat­i­cal was in regard to the children’s allowances. To recap the old policies: The Daughter’s allowance was $6 per week.  In addi­tion to her weekly allowance she was also “given” a hypo­thet­i­cal $100 per month with which she was expected to buy [...]
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Counting My Blessings: #9

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 1, 2008
Just in case you’ve missed any of them, here are my ear­lier posts in this thread: Bless­ing #1 — Con­nec­tion to Nature and Uni­ver­sal Truths Bless­ing #2 — The Husband Bless­ing #3 — My Health Bless­ings #4 and 5 — My Children Bless­ing #6 — My Circumstances Bless­ing #7 — The Husband’s Health Bless­ing #8 — My Mom Today’s bless­ing — The Husband’s four [...]
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Counting My Blessings: #8

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 30, 2008
If you’ve missed any of the first six posts (seven bless­ings) in this theme, you can check them out here: Bless­ing #1 — Con­nec­tion to Nature and Uni­ver­sal Truths Bless­ing #2 — The Husband Bless­ing #3 — My Health Bless­ings #4 and 5 — My Children Bless­ing #6 — My Circumstances Bless­ing #7 — The Husband’s Health Today’s bless­ing is my mom.  My [...]
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Counting My Blessings: #7

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 29, 2008
I didn’t post a “Count­ing My Bless­ings” post yes­ter­day — I guess because Thanks­giv­ing was over and every­one else had moved on to Black Fri­day and the big build-up to Christ­mas.  But it isn’t sit­ting well with me — leav­ing off with­out count­ing all of my bless­ings.  So, please bear with me as I con­tinue [...]
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