Financial distress is widespread and urgent Laurie’s post earlier this week was a response to the double suicide of a couple from New York City who, according to the notes they left, could not live with their financial reality. I hadn’t heard of the tragedy before reading the post, and when I looked up news […]

Last week, when I wrote about my series of unfortunate events in travel (and related it to serial obstacles in personal finance), I left something out. I wasn’t sure if it would be appropriate or relevant to write about it, but I believe it is. Stuck on the runway Mishap #5 of my trip home […]

Last week, my sister Shirley and I had a great visit with family in Washington DC. For me, it was a fabulous treat to tour the city. It was only the second air-travel trip I’ve taken since our journey out of debt began five years ago. Last Friday, we made our trip home. And EVERYTHING […]

DH = dear husband For the second time since our journey out of debt began in June of 2012, I stepped onto a plane! Yes, I’m traveling! One of my nieces moved to Washington DC with her husband in March of this year for a 9-month posting that he had been offered. As the summer […]

I organized a mini human library at our school this year. Students had the opportunity to “sign out” a staff member, and each staff-book had a “title”. Ari Lesser, our physics teacher had this one: Middle-Class, But Investing Like Warren Buffet. Ari has serious concerns about the need for education in financial literacy in our […]

One of the things Andrew can do now is to walk his son to school. I co ordinate the schedules of volunteers at the high school where I work, and Andrew is one of those volunteers. Please read his story of financial freedom. What messages about money, either spoken or unspoken, would you say you […]

DH = Dear Husband DD3 = Dear Third Daughter  DH and I recently marked 5 years of debt-reduction. I took a little time to wander down memory lane, and I re-read a post I’d written May 26 2012, just a few days before we took the first step of our journey out of debt June 1. […]

At Prudence Debtfree this past weekend, I posted for our 5th anniversary of debt-reduction. $180,000 down – $77,000 to go! One of the points I made concerns a reality that I’m living now. “Nobody pays off debt in a vacuum. Life continues to happen, and it’s not easy to stay focused on a long-term goal […]

DH = Dear Husband DD3 = Dear third daughter As of last Friday, I have 10 boxes full of my children’s book: Ella Builds A Wall. Why did you write this children’s book? I self-published a book for each of my two older daughters way back when they were young – in ’98 and ’02. I thought […]

DH = Dear Husband DD2 = Dear Second Daughter The “big expense” we took on 2 years ago Two years ago over at Prudence Debtfree, I wrote a post explaining the significant new expense that DH and I had decided to take on. We would support our second daughter in moving out of our house so that […]