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By Eric on March 31, 2011 4

Budget Committee Meetings

Yesterday I had my very first guest post! Mary from Mary Sievers, CPA, asked us to write about our budget committee meetings. Here’s what was posted:

You can read our full debt-free story here. My wife, Kelsey, and I had seen an ad at our church for Financial Peace University. This was intriguing to me. Pay $99 for (what I assumed to be) a pyramid scheme to learn how to get your financial life in order. Soon after we heard about the class, we took a trip to Kansas City and spent lots of money on frivolous things. It wasn’t long after that Kelsey gave me the look and said, “I think we should enroll.” (That look means, “We are enrolling”.) I do love to learn, though, and was OK with the decision after we agreed that we would dive in all the way and get our finances in order together.
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In Money

By Eric on March 28, 2011 5

The $12 Negotiation

The other night, I decided to move another desk into our home office, so Kels and I can work on our blogs side-by-side. This led to me having to unhook and re-hook up our PC, printer, modem and wireless router. They all made the transition…except for the wireless router. For some reason, it decided to self-destruct like an Inspector Gadget note. When I plugged it back in, it had no power.

So, the next evening after work, we went to Best Buy to get a new one. Not a big deal, or so I thought…

In Money

By Eric on March 25, 2011 14

Fairytale, Chapter 1: Boy Meets Girl

We are about to embark on a journey in which only our closest friends have been on (mostly because they lived it with us). This is the story of how Kelsey and I fell in love: from the time we met to the time we knew it would be forever. I (Eric) will be doing most of the writing for this story, simply because I remember more of the details than Kelsey does. (This is completely backward from every other aspect of our relationship, and my only conclusion is that I had to fight so hard to get her to date me, that the memories are forever etched in my brain.) Because of the length and detail, we broke the story into 12 chapters. The story is stored on our Fairytale page. Let the story begin… Continue Reading…

In Love

By Kelsey on March 23, 2011 21

Our Morning Routine

Eric and I started working at the same company two and a half years ago, and the biggest adjustment has undoubtedly been our morning routine. Eric’s old hours were 7-4:30, and my hours were flexible, so Eric would get up first and get ready, and then wake me up on his way out.

Now, we carpool every day and that means I have to get up earlier than him (since I take twice as long to get ready). Our hours are flexible: we can go in to work between 7 and 9 and leave between 4 and 6. This is great, but Eric is a morning person and I am not. Continue Reading…

In Routine

By Kelsey on March 20, 2011 2