December 2008

money management

A New Year, A New Book: Your Money Or Your Life

by Tsh

Photo by Ryan Holloway Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely evening last night.  I’ve got a set of questions to help you set some realistic, life-affirming, and encouraging goals for 2009 – but they’re coming tomorrow. Today, I’m over at the brand new Simple Mom forums, for the first day of the [...]

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inspiration

20 Questions for a New Year’s Eve Reflection

by Tsh

Photo by Philipp Klinger A new year is a great time to reset your internal clocks, re-calibrate your settings, and re-chart your course. There’s something encouraging and natural about using a fresh calendar page to make new goals in your life, which is why new year’s resolutions are so popular. But made in haste, resolutions [...]

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inspiration

Q&A Tuesday: What Do You Think Of New Year’s Resolutions?

by Tsh

There’s two more days of 2008. The long-standing traditions of New Year’s Eve include champagne, parties, dancing, games, holding your eyelids open until midnight… and making resolutions. You can probably guess today’s Q&A: Do you make new year’s resolutions? Why or why not? And by golly, why do you think they’re so hard to keep? [...]

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money management

The Pointless Pursuit of More: When is Enough Enough?

by Tsh

Photo by Andrea I hope you had a great holiday this past week, and that they were as restful as they were fun; as reflective as they were festive. And I hope you weren’t inundated with too much new clutter to add to your home. Sometimes it’s hard to not go overboard during the holidays [...]

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money management

10 Surprising Side Effects to Money Management

by Tsh

This post was first published on June 5, 2008. I love reading your blogs full of excitement about looking into Dave Ramsey’s concept of financial freedom. The idea of a “total money makeover” truly has been eye-opening and freeing for our little family. We never relied heavily on debt, but we still never thought we [...]

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taking care of yourself

Your Morning Routine: Start Your Day Off Right

by Tsh

This post was first published on May 20, 2008. Photo by Terry Johnston Moms, particularly stay-at-home moms, are in short supply of a regular routine. Don’t get me wrong, we constantly do methodical things over and over – laundry, dishes, chauffering to ballet class. But in the midst of that, we’re putting out fires left [...]

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green & frugal living

Handmade at Home: Keeping the Skills Alive

by Tsh

This post was first published on June 23, 2008. Photo by Kajsa Wikman There are times when getting something done involves doing it as quickly as possible. And there are times when it involves clearing off the table, and doing it from scratch. The task might take more time, and even sometimes (but not often), [...]

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