organizing

5/day challenge update

August 20, 2009

Update on my 5/day challenge: Get rid of 5 things a day to keep the clutter away!

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sell it, give it away, or donate it?

August 4, 2009

If you’re here from the MSN Money Blog, welcome! Please stop by my About Me page, my Media page, and consider subscribing to my RSS feed. You can also follow me on twitter. photo credit: qnr We’re 4 days into my 5/day challenge. Do you have 20 things so far? I guess if I count [...]

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5 a day to keep the clutter away

July 30, 2009

August is my 5/day challenge. See if you can get rid of 5 things a day, to save you money and time, and free yourself from clutter.

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how to: take charge of your finances

March 12, 2009

I’m no expert (and really why would anyone listen to an “expert” these days?) I’m not one of those frugal people who has lived all my life with no debt, and saved tens of thousands dollars. We’ve been focused on raising our family, and when emergencies hit we had no safety net so things got [...]

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paid off debt #1!

January 30, 2009

We got our tax refund this morning, and it’s already spent.  I spent it to pay off our lowest balance credit card. Normally our refund would just get eaten by the checking account. (you know what I mean) I can’t wait to log into Wesabe later and see my total debt balance has dropped. I [...]

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