For those of you who have been following along, I’m building a playhouse for my little girl. It is 8ft by 12ft with 8ft standard walls. (I had no concept, when I started this thing, that an 8 by 12 building was so BIG!) I spent the better part of the afternoon framing the roof rafters. (Technically, framing a roof…
Author: NCN
Evolution Of My Emergency Fund
When I first started getting out of debt, I created a bare-bones budget and a bare-bones emergency fund. I kept $1000 in my ING Savings account, and I only budgeted for “necessities”. After getting out of debt, I stuck with the “bare-bones” budget, but I increased my emergency fund to $20,000. Now that I have my fully-funded emergency fund, my…
Posts I’m Reading
If you are trying to reduce your electric bill, you might find this article at Blunt Money very interesting. Canadian Capitalist has a breakdown of Vanguard’s Total Market ETF. Since I’m just now learning about ETFs, I love finding articles like this one. Debt Hater with thoughts about personal finance blogging. (Side note: Debt Hater = coolest hair in pf…