One question I’ve been asked over and over when talking about quitting my job is how I overcame the fear of not being able to find a new job, or not being able to pay my bills.  Obviously, both of those questions played a part in the decision.  My answer might surprise some.  I didn’t.  [...]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  By now, you’ve likely got the turkey out defrosting, and are getting the rest of the ingredients for you Thanksgiving Day feast all in order and ready to go.  Tonight, or tomorrow, you’ll start traveling wherever it is that you’re planning on going (or your guests will start arriving) and you’ll be [...]

When I finally put in that two-weeks notice, I was floating on this nice little cloud, high above the world, happy with my decision and feeling like I could do no wrong.  Like Andrea of So Over Debt put it, it was the first good nights sleep I’d gotten in quite a while.  And, of [...]

I did something a couple of weeks ago. I’m sure that, based on the title of this article, you can guess what that something is.  In fact, today is my last day.  Starting at 5, I’m a free agent! Why I Quit my Job. Over the last several months and weeks, several things had happened [...]

I was reading a story somewhere where a person was being interviewed about their debt.  In the interview, the person was speaking about how they had this credit card debt and how they just couldn’t get out from under it because of all the interest, fees, and other ways that the credit card company throws [...]

Unfortunately, losing an engine in the one car wasn’t the end of our car trouble.  It was, by far, the worst of our car trouble, but, certainly not the end. Because the engine in the other car was gone, we are down to just the one car.  We’re carpooling.  For people with office jobs, carpooling [...]

Sometimes, when it rains it pours.  And January really was one of those months for our cars.  In mid January, one of our cars wouldn’t start in the morning.  Now, we live in North Dakota.  A car not starting in the morning isn’t unheard of, and borders on common.  Especially when the overnight low nears [...]

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 [...]

Inevitably, you’re going to screw up.  You’re going to make a mistake and it’s gonna cost you.  If you’re lucky, it’s only going to cost you a few dollars or a bit of bruised pride.  If you’re not so lucky, it could cost you much more than that. Let me tell you a little secret.  [...]

I dislike getting a refund from the government. I don’t like having to look up the my tax refund status.  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 [...]