Frugal Freedom

The week I have been both looking forward to and dreading is finally over. It has been the end goal ever since my nephew came back to live ...

3-2-1 Contact was one of the few educational kid's shows I was allowed to watch when I was young.  I don't remember much about it ex...

I made some money goals for my houses and 401k while I am paying off my mortgage.  The house values are from Zillow.com so they aren't e...

Today the first $540 were sucked out of my bank account to pay for this new house. That's a whole lot less painful than the $860 that u...

Ok...goals. Hmm... 1. Buy that house I want. That is in the hands of the bank at the moment but I will do everything I can to get that hou...

I checked my bank account today not expecting to see any change but then I looked where my mortgage balance should be and it was gone. I wa...

Back to Chase bank I went today even though yesterday was disappointing. I was greeted at the door and I told the woman what I wanted. I g...

May is long gone but I might as well update my mortgage progress anyway. I didn't contribute any extra to the mortgage so only the regu...

Some days I think I earn my pay more than others. Today was a steady stream of urgent issues. Luckily I think I handled most of them with ...

As you know, the last email that I got from the property management company said that my partial rent payment would be paid to me with my ne...

When I got to work this morning I checked my email and there was one from the property management company. It said that I had $600 in rent c...

I called my bank today and asked them about the methods for paying off a mortgage. My mortgage holder and my bank are the same so you would ...

I wanted to be sure I would have enough money to pay off the rental house mortgage this month so I went ahead and requested a payoff quote. ...

I have one more year to be financially independent by the time I am forty. Not that it is a goal set in stone or anything, it's just a c...

Yes it is that time again. I haven't made any extra payments for a while but I decided to go ahead and add $502 to the mortgage. Why $50...

Another 100 gallons. Each load is making me feel a little bit more secure about the months ahead. I forgot how much my dogs drink in the Sum...

I was sitting at work today thinking about how lucky I am that I have a job and can pay someone else to tile. Just doing little things aroun...

You know when I am this late at posting it is probably one of 3 things...computer broke, out partying, or got a new dog. Ok, I don't use...

Of course I had to start out the year with a new dog. They were going to put her to sleep because they said she got kennel cough, then got w...

When I wake up tomorrow I expect it to be raining. That would be wonderful. Work was ok today. Our state minimum wage is going up to $7.3...