HAPPY FRIDAY, everyone! I don’t know about you, but it’s been a WEEK (and a half, maybe three years) for me. After a small explosion/electrical fire in our A/C unit on Wednesday night, and visit from the Wichita Falls Fire Department to make sure our house was not on fire, we’ve been without A/C for…
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I’ve been conducting my own little social experiment. For the past six weeks or so, I have kept every single credit card application or offer I received in the mail. The results? How insane is that??? I knew it was a lot before I started doing this, but seeing it all laid out really gave…
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At work, we’re starting to register people for our Fall 2017 session of Financial Peace University. It’s a BIG part of our mission at Texoma Community Credit Union, and I’d like to take a minute to tell you about my experience and why I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you and your significant other to take the class if…
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I’ll admit it. I’m the kind of person that feels like they need to buy something from a salesperson simply because they have spent time “helping” you. I think this is called being a people pleaser. My husband calls it shopoholic. Regardless, it’s hard for me to say no. But this week, I found the…
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This past weekend, I sent seven 13-gallon trash bags of clothing to Goodwill. It. Felt. Glorious. Not necessarily for the altruistic reasons, but I felt like the weight of those bags came directly off my shoulders. (Because I am a woman, my closet still looks full, but at least I have a handy new collection…
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Grab a friend, hit the road, and enjoy some BOGO on my favorite drug. (MmmmmCaffeine….) Because this afternoon, the corner of Kemp and Kell is the Place. To. BE: As a footnote to this post, I feel like I need to say that in the world of budgeting, “fancy” coffee drinks and “froo-froo shmappachinos” as…
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Remember how I said Laura Bush reminded everyone at Heart of a Woman that as women we sometimes take care of everyone else and forget to take care of ourselves too? Well, this week it occurred to me that I spend WAY more each year on my two dogs’ hair cuts than on my own. Me…
Read MoreAnother round of our free Financial Peace University classes is starting back up again at work (March 7 – May 2, and spots are still available!) and because the class had such a HUGE impact on me and my husband, I figured I’d share some of my experience. This is something I wrote back in the…
Read MoreEven before we took the Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University class at work this past Fall (which I will have to tell you more about later!) we knew our family was expanding and were looking for ways to trim our budget. So we said goodbye to DirecTV and our $100 a month bill. Two years later,…
Read MoreSo the hubs and I decided to take the 52-Week Savings Challenge Tiffany blogged about here. I really like the idea of having some extra money around the holidays this year, since December 2016 felt like such a budget blowout. So far, I have to report it has been extremely easy, since we’ve only had…
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