I’m a big fan of Andrew Peterson’s songwriting and music, so when I heard he’d written a novel I had high expectations.  On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness delivered.  It’s not great literature, it’s not going to displace Narnia or Lord of the Rings in the canon of fantasy literature, it’s not […]

This is simple: if people depend on you for your income, you need 10x your yearly income in either a savings account or in life insurance. Period.

If you’re single with no dependents, you don’t need life insurance
If you’re married with no kids and your spouse’s income is enough for him/her to live on as […]

As far as I know there’s no truth to the rumor that the damage was caused by Elon QB Scott Riddle throwing footballs at the goal posts.

Prior to this baseball season Elon renovated Latham Park, adding stadium-style chairback seating, new fencing to enclose most of the park, and a policy change to charge admission to baseball games for the first time. The seating area looks great.

I’m not so sure about the fence enclosing the park and charging for admission. […]

With four kids, we buy a lot of groceries. We’ve switched to the cash envelope system for groceries (we fill up the envelope with cash at the start of the month, and when the envelope is empty we’re done buying for the month - it’s been a great system for us). We buy […]

I can say with a pretty high degree of confidence that the following things are true:

You’re paying too much for your phone service.
You don’t need a traditional landline home phone.
The cable company “Bundle & Save” packages should be renamed “Bundle & Spend.”

Phone service is radically different than it was only a few years ago. […]

This is the last day of the three day ramp-up for Financial Action Month, where I’ll write about a personal finance topic every day in March. Tomorrow and throughout the rest of this week I’ll start covering individual topics like phone service, groceries, life insurance, and more.
Why is this called Financial Action Month? Because even […]