Like many things in life, there are a whole bunch of reasons you might choose to do this. There are also a whole bunch of reasons not to. These are just the factors that led us in to this adventure a little over three years ago.
My husband and I once spent a week driving across the country to see Glacier National Park. Despite having been to many of the amazing National Parks in the West, we’d never made it to Montana. We had planned this trip for months
Two of the things I have found most helpful in my professional life are: 1. Setting well-defined, detailed goals based on the things that I want for my life. 2. Literally mapping out my plans for how to get to my goals. Neither of these should be novel concepts to any of us, but let’s …
Putting Our Cards on the Table In an effort to keep myself accountable to the idea that doctors do not have to spend a totally ridiculous amount of money to live well and love life, I’ve decided to share our spending for last month
In a world where online fundraising is an accepted way to raise money for a small child’s dream birthday event, I’m sure plenty of people think that we are pretty stingy parents. After all, you can find examples of over-the-top children’s parties everywhere you look.
What is Travel-Hacking and Should You Try It? Travel-hacking means strategically collecting frequent flier miles and points in order to travel for free or cheap.
What Does Getting Ready for a Baby Really Cost? According to one popular baby website, you can currently expect to spend about $2,000 on everything you “need” for your nursery furnishings. The most reasonable article I could find featuring photographic proof that their nursery wasn’t totally depressing came in around $400 for nursery furnishings (this …
The Why First, let me say we are not anti-debt. We have a mortgage and a construction loan and a business loan, which we are paying down with variable degrees of aggressiveness. So why are our student loans different?
Let’s go through this in the ever-popular Q & A format, and base it on questions and comments I actually get from people.
As many strange ideas do, this blog name came from a random conversation I had with my brother. He was writing/editing several articles for a magazine at the time, and I was working on writing a piece about how to raise rich kids who aren’t entitled jerks.