If you work for the federal government or depend on work as a government contractor, then you probably breathed a sigh of relief when Congress managed to pass a 45-day budget just hours before the government was preparing to shut down. We managed to avoid a government shutdown on October 1st, but we might be […]
The simple 3-step calculation that will save your gas budget
Unless you own a gas company or an oil well, you’re probably not a big fan of the gas prices lately. I paid $5.67 per gallon yesterday and that was at the cheapest station in town! It’s easy to throw our hands up in the air and decide there’s nothing we can do about the […]
Here’s a detailed look into everything our family 8 spent and earned in August
Welcome to another Family Budget Update where we share our real numbers with you! Why do we share all the details? Budgeting is such an important skill for everyone, but very few people are taught how to do it! It isn’t taught in most schools (except, eventually, in the School of Hard Knocks!) If you were […]
Our family of 8 spent $3,048 on a 3-week cross country road trip. Here’s the cost breakdown
Memory-making family adventures don’t need to be expensive to be unforgettable, but sometimes it can be tricky to figure out how to keep the costs down. After sharing our cost breakdown for our 10-day Washington DC trip for our family of 8, I’ve had a lot of requests to share the numbers for other recent […]
7 “Normal” Things We Don’t Spend Money On
The great thing about personal finance is that it’s personal. Some people take “personal” to mean that it’s private. I think of the “personal” in personal finance as meaning that it’s about your individual choice. No one can tell you what you should do with your money. The choice is yours! It’s personal. The way […]
Family Budget Update- July 2023
I am back on track with budget updates! If you missed our May 2023 budget update and June 2023 budget update, that will catch you up on what has been going on. Also, last week I published a post explaining the details of how we are working the finances for the Ukrainian family that we’re […]
Handling Finances For Sponsoring a Refugee Family
Since our new Ukrainian friends arrived three months ago we’ve had a lot of questions about our experience sponsoring a refugee family. Some questions are cultural. Others are about the more personal experience. Many questions are also financial. Most people know that we believe talking about money is helpful, not taboo. Every family has to […]
Family Budget Update- June 2023
I am back on track with budget updates! If you missed our May 2023 budget update, that will get you up to speed on what we have going on. For those who have been waiting for the post explaining the details of how we are working the finances for the Ukrainian family that we’re sponsoring, […]
Family Budget Update – May 2023
It has been about eight months since I’ve shared a family budget update. That’s a long time, considering I published monthly budget updates for NINE years without missing a month. As you probably know, there have been some major changes since our last budget update in September. The most notable is that we took in […]
THANK YOU (… and They’re Here!)
I am long overdue in offering a heartfelt THANK YOU to those of you who so generously supported us in welcoming our Ukrainian refugee family. It has been two and a half months since I shared that our family was “adopting” a Ukrainian family. We gave up renting out our Airbnb apartment so that they […]
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