The summer travel season is just around the corner, and so I’ve decided it’s time for a confession. Let me preface this by saying I have always enjoyed a moderate amount of risk and a high amount of adventure in my life. I’m pretty well-adjusted and emotionally stable. I tend to not dwell too much …
Holy cow it’s mid-May! So it’s well past time to sum up what we spent in April. A quick reminder: these spending reports are 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. And while many …
I am very excited and proud to present the following guest post. Zella Kintsugi is the biological mother of three, the adoptive mother of two, and the foster mother of two. She and her husband have been involved with foster care and adoption since 2014. A Letter from a Foster Mom I do not have it …
I totally get it. You want to ask about our foster/adoptive family, but you’re not sure how. You’re not sure what the appropriate terms are for whatever is going on. Or if you’re allowed to ask if we couldn’t get pregnant and tried a bunch of fertility treatment and this is the fallout of that …
You may recall that our effort to tackle things a little differently than the mainstream includes trying to destroy a huge amount of student debt within 5 years of finishing school. That 5-year mark for us will be at the end of this year. For the sake of comparison, the average student loan repayment time …
This time of year I start hearing: “We’re planning a trip to see the Grand Canyon and (other things near there)! What do you recommend???” This is awesome, because in my opinion everyone on the planet should have the chance to see the Grand Canyon and surrounding region. I’ve been living, adventuring, and raising a …
Our guest post today is from an awesome computer engineer who agreed to share some interesting financial, schooling, work, and investment details from his life so our young people can have a real-life story to consider when contemplating career choices. In case you were concerned that our guest-poster is a boring and out of shape …
We all have the best intentions when friends move far away, don’t we? “Come visit me!” our friends say, and “Of course we will!” we say back. And we mean to, but we don’t. And then years go by and we have friends that fade into acquaintances all over the place… and we sort of …
Fun fact: we Americans each spend an average of 293 hours in our vehicles every year. That’s 12+ solid days out of 365. I don’t care how good the music is or how fancy the upholstery is, that’s just way more time than I want to spend sitting in a car during my waking hours. …
Related Links I’ll cut to the chase: We spent $5,894.51 in March for our family of four. You can scroll down to the see the breakdown of categories in our fancy Numbers chart. This total is only slightly higher than our spending in January or February, and March included our family trip to Maui (some of our most-effective-ever …