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 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 [...]
Unfortunately, I try to keep this blog safe for work; which means that I can’t use the words and terms that I would like to in reference to Innovis. In short, Innovis Health is one of the worst medical facilities that I’ve ever had to deal with. And that’s not an exaggeration. Innovis Stinks. And [...]
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 [...]
I’ll spare you the pre-story except to say that my wife and I both did a lot of things wrong financially in our college years. Lots of college loans, credit card debt, and little to no savings to speak of. We got married, and still we continued on our merry way. We bought a house [...]
