Next week, I’m going away to church camp as a counselor. Yesterday, I went shopping for camp supplies with my wife and my daughter. While they were looking for shorts in JC Penny, I walked to the other end of the mall, looking for a new printer for our home. My old printer, which has served me faithfully for almost…
Category: Budget
Getting Rid Of The Old Blue Chair – A Look Back At How I Used To Manage My Finances
Nine years ago, I bought a blue chair-and-a-half. Yesterday, I hauled it away. As I was driving down the road, returning from the ‘dump-trash’ (that’s what my daughter calls the local collection facility) – I started thinking about the old blue chair. My wife and I purchased it on a whim. We lived in a small, two bedroom apartment, and…
Paying Bills Vs. Money Management – The Difference Between Surviving And Thriving
I’ve been working for almost twenty years. For most of my adult life, I dreaded ‘paying bills’. For three weeks, bills would pile up on the counter top – waiting to be paid. At the end of the month, paycheck deposited, I’d sit down to sort through the pile. After checks had been written and placed into payment envelopes, I…