Don’t Give In to Self-Destruction

Two nights ago I was a bit tired and it was getting late. I hadn’t done my workout yet and I heard myself saying, “It’s just one workout. It won’t hurt to skip it.” Then I remembered I said this last week and ended up missing 3 workouts as a result. For someone like me [...]

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An Old Concept: The Outdoor Clothesline

When I was a young boy, I can remember helping my mom hanging up the wet clothes on clotheslines we had in our backyard. Truth be told, in Hawaii “helping” should probably be called “playing outside while mom hung up the clothes” but when we moved to SC, and I was older, I did start [...]

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Review: The Total Money Makeover

After reading Dave Ramsey‘s book Financial Peace Revisited, I wanted to read a bit more by him. His The Total Money Makeover was relatively recent so I picked that up and dug into it. The lessons of the book are basically the same as the first one: Build a budget each month. Stick to the [...]

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Inexpensive Costumes

The last few years we’ve bought outfits for the kids and we’ve seen the costs rise to where it’s just mind boggling. Spending $30-40 for outfits they are going to wear once or twice just doesn’t make much sense. I decided that we would make our own costumes. My overall goals were: Reduce the overall [...]

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Review: Financial Peace Revisited

With a fourth child on the way, finances are a natural concern for me. What spurred me on to really thinking about doing a better job, though, is my third child. She’s an absolute angel. But she’s had expensive dental and medical bills each of the four years of her life. And that has an [...]

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