If you’d like to catch up on this on-going series, start here, then go here, and here. Then come back here and read on. There, now that you’re caught up, you know that my wife quit her job about a year ago. Sometime around last August, she and two of her friends (and ex-coworkers) decided [...]
I dislike getting a refund from the government. I don’t have any good reason to give them an interest free loan, but any changes I make to my W4 don’t seem to make any difference. I keep getting a refund every year. This year, the numbers were really off, because we added a dependent last [...]
Last update, I told you that the COBRA health insurance plan premium went through the roof and we were deciding whether to continue paying for it, or to switch over to the plan that I get at work. In the end, we decided to remain on the COBRA plan. The difference was about $350 a [...]
It would appear that the saga is far from over. (If you want the full story, you can read part 1 of My Wife Quit Her Job) Just when you think you can’t handle any more of a challenge, a little more gets thrown on top. Obviously, God knows we can handle more. Since my [...]
Before you get all excited, this isn’t a story of financial bliss. Less than 3 months after our second child, a daughter, was born and amid all this turmoil in the economy, my wife quit her job. Why? Suffice to say that she was extremely unhappy at the position and didn’t feel that she could [...]
My brother is currently scheduled to get himself married in the middle part of next month. As a result, I’ve spent an ungodly amount of money on plane tickets, hotel and rental cars for the event. Added to that will be food for a few days for all three of us (Me, My Wife and [...]
