UNBELIEVABLE: 4 - Caught on Camera

Phew…a day of Rest!

The wedding was beautiful. The night went long with clean up.

Blogging Away Debt · Oct 12, 2025

Everyone Arrives Today

The wedding is this weekend!! My boys all fly in today along with my youngest brother and his girlfriend. (With my mom’s health, no one else from Texas felt comfortable making the trip. It’s sad, but we all understand.) We’ve got set up and the rehearsal dinner tomorrow afternoon. The…

Blogging Away Debt · Oct 9, 2025

Truck Stop Bathroom

Ever spent $17 for a shower? Yeah, me neither. At least until this past week.

Blogging Away Debt · Oct 7, 2025

Financial Education Failure

I’m sure it’s not news to the BAD community that the American public education system (maybe private too) is failing our next generations by not teaching financial literacy in our schools. While I believe the original mindset was that it would be taught at home, it’s definitely not, and it’s…

Blogging Away Debt · Sep 12, 2025

Debt Detox by Room, Part 3: Living Areas & Paper Zone

The living room and dining room table is where clutter turns into shame. Paper work, stacks of mail “to sort later,” and sentimental piles that slowly swallow the sofa, the dining table, the tv stands, and so on and so forth.

Blogging Away Debt · Sep 9, 2025

Pre-Planning for Black Friday Purchases

My husband and I sometimes joke that I missed my calling – with as much as I love crunching numbers, I would’ve been a great accountant or financial planner! 

Blogging Away Debt · Sep 8, 2025

Debt Detox by Room, Part 2: Laundry, Utility, & Garage

If the kitchen collects plastic containers, the laundry room and garage breed plastic bags, boxes, cords, and “mystery hardware.” These spaces are trip-hazard central for both my dad and me.

Blogging Away Debt · Sep 6, 2025

Debt Detox by Room, Part 1: Kitchen & Pantry – The Takeout Container Wars

Note: This is what is happening, but I did also write this kind of tongue in cheek, ie reference to the apocalypse. While my dad would definitely qualify as a “prepper” – we as a family laugh and have a good time around the things he saves…in abundance. It’s just…

Blogging Away Debt · Sep 3, 2025

September Goals

This is the month I will hit $10,000 in my emergency fund! The work was completed last month. I’m just waiting for payment to come in.

Blogging Away Debt · Sep 1, 2025

Savings Allocations & Vehicles

I received a lot of great feedback on my longer term savings plan a month or so ago. Specifically about how having all my “buckets” on my Ally account may make me more susceptible to dipping into these funds. And that made complete sense to me.

Blogging Away Debt · Aug 29, 2025