By kaleyehret on December 22nd, 2010
So I’m guessing you all have been sitting on the edge of your seats for weeks now wondering if I was going to pull off my $50 Christmas. Right?
Well, you can sit back and and take a deep breath because the moment has finally arrived.
The results are in.
Ladies and Gents, I believe I pulled it [...]
Posted in About Us, Cha-Ching! Christmas Club
By kaleyehret on October 18th, 2010
A couple of years ago, there was this silly little “25 Things About Me” thing going around on Facebook. Well, eventually I succumbed to the pressure and joined in making my list.
I found the list recently, and it hit me that it might be fun to share with you, my readers, to give you a [...]
Posted in About Us, Just for fun
By kaleyehret on August 26th, 2010
Raise your hand if you have moved more than three times in your life. Seriously. I’d love to know.
I know people who haven’t lived in one place for more than two years at a time.
Honestly. I don’t know how they do it. I have moved to a new house twice in my entire life (that [...]
Posted in About Us
By kaleyehret on August 18th, 2010
You can read parts 1-4 of this series here.
Creativity. What pops into your mind when I mention that creativity was the final piece to our lay-off survival preparation?
If you picture me with my sewing machine, making cute little outfits for my boys, you would be…wrong. (My Mom did sign me up for sewing lessons growing [...]
Posted in About Us, Saving money | Tagged Preparing for a Lay-off Series
By kaleyehret on August 10th, 2010
You can read parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series here.
It’s time to share the next letter in our BASIC lay-off survival prep: I is for Investing
B-Budget
A-Apartment
S-Saving
I-Investing
C-
While there are benefits to investing in in the stock market, I’m referring to a different kind of investing.
It’s a kind of investing that frankly, I’m not [...]
Posted in About Us, Saving money | Tagged Preparing for a Lay-off Series
By kaleyehret on July 2nd, 2010
You can read parts 1 and 2 of this series here.
When I was younger, my parents gave me a set of three envelopes and a little notebook. One envelope was for saving, one for spending, and the other for giving. The little notebook was meant to be my method of keeping track of my cash [...]
Posted in About Us, Saving money | Tagged Preparing for a Lay-off Series
By kaleyehret on June 15th, 2010
You can read the first post in this series here.
I shared in my first post in this series, “How We Prepared for a Lay-off” that we survived a year and a half of uncertain income without going into debt. It was the choices that we made prior to the layoff that truly [...]
Posted in About Us, Frugal Tips | Tagged Preparing for a Lay-off Series