Like many people, I can’t always get a meal on the table if it means a lot of cooking. Between work, afternoon activities and projects, my family sometimes can’t make it home before dinner. This meant we benefited from the convenience of fast food all the time. However, the value hamburgers and the seemingly cheap […]
Read More >>5 Ways to Make Money In the Music Industry
I love music. I’m obsessed with it. I love listening to, writing, producing, and performing music. I didn’t actually start playing until I was sixteen and picked up an acoustic guitar, but it didn’t take me too long to know I was going to be pursuing a career in music. As I would imagine is […]
Read More >>Expat 101: How To Move To A Different Country
When my husband and I decided to move to the island of Grenada in the Caribbean, it literally felt like a dream. We were so excited, and we knew that it was going to be absolutely beautiful there. However, moving abroad is not for the faint of heart, and there were so many things that […]
Read More >>Weekly Friday Giveaway Post – 23 Giveaways – Leaving on a Jet Plane Edition
Happy Friday! Time for my favorite post of the week, our Friday giveaway post! This is the perfect way to wrap up our week of giveaways. If you missed them, we had three cash giveaways totaling just under $1,600 cash. $100 Giveaway $999.99 Giveaway $500 Giveaway Tomorrow we leave for a cruise we booked nearly […]
Read More >>$500 Cash Giveaway – Save Money with Coupon Codes
Sick of giveaways yet? I hope not because today I have yet another cash giveaway! This time we have $500 up for grabs. If you haven’t entered the previous giveaways that started this week, enter the $100 cash giveaway here and the $999.99 cash giveaway here. The theme of this giveaway is saving money shopping. […]
Read More >>15 Tips for Planning and Preparing for a Vacation
Photo by Jason Meredith As we are approaching the date of departure for a vacation we have been planning for nearly a year, there are a lot of things on our to-do list that have yet to be accomplished. While planning a vacation, you will definitely get advice from people about how to plan or […]
Read More >>$999.99 Cash Giveaway – Money Problems Edition
You could call this “the week of giveaways.” Yesterday we launched a $100 Cash Giveaway and today we are following it up with another cash giveaway, except this time it’s for $999.99! The theme of this giveaway is money problems. Everyone has money problems, though they vary greatly. Some people are stressed about how they […]
Read More >>$100 Giveaway – Valentine’s Day Gift Edition
Time for another $100 CASH giveaway! As usual, enter via the rafflecopter below. The giveaway will run from February 4th to the 15th. The theme of this giveaway is Valentine’s Day Gift (officially it was a different theme, but my unofficial theme sounds better so I’m going with it). Granted, the giveaway ends the day […]
Read More >>20 Unexpected Expenses
As we go throughout life, there are unexpected expenses that come up. Unfortunately they come up more often than most of us would like. Whether it’s an unexpected medical bill or a leaking roof, there will always be “something” that we have to pay for that we didn’t anticipate beforehand. Today I want to share […]
Read More >>7 Perks of Being a Full-Time Employee with Benefits
In the past I’ve talked about the benefits of being an employee (versus being a contractor or small-business owner). Today I want to share seven specific things that full-time employees might have in their benefits package that contractors, freelance workers, and small business owners may not enjoy themselves. 1) 401k Match Ever since pension funds […]
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