It’s the spring and the weather is slowly getting warmer. I’m kind of the atypical guy when it comes to being clean. Generally, I like to keep the house clean, and I am a minimalist when it comes to stuff in the house. I don’t like hoarding things. So, my wife [...]

I’m not a big fan of playing the lottery. I watch too many people come into convenience stores that should probably be saving the $10 to $20 they spend every 3 days on the lottery. My in-laws always give us about $25 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets which result in about $5 to [...]

The tax deadline is 11 days away. It’s probably one of the worst times of the year for those of you that have complicated taxes. I’ve had mine done for the past month, because my wife doesn’t work and we don’t have a ton of complicated investment income at this point. So, [...]

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Recently, I started playing around with the virtual stock application at The Updown.com. I’ve never been a single stock buyer, so I rarely keep up with what individual stocks are doing in the market. So, I thought this would be a great way for me to start researching individual companies and test out [...]

Lately, I’ve been hearing tips from friends about how they save money, reading articles about saving money, and trying to come up with ways to save some money around the house. So, I decided to put together a comprehensive list of ways that we save money around the house and in our daily lives. [...]