Originally uploaded by Dizzy Atmosphere
While we were planning our move to a new, bigger, more comfortable apartment we looked at our budget and now all the costs should play out.  I managed to get us a trailer for free that I could hook up to the back of my Jeep for the larger items and [...]

While I feel like I am making some substantial progress on my short term goals I am trying to also keep up with some long term progress.  After all - eventually long term goals become short term goals right?  Might as well work toward getting some small hurdles out of the way.
As it stands my [...]

My girlfriend and I have been talking about and looking into moving out of our current apartments and into a house that we can share for the past couple of months.  Our current living situation is kind of unique as we have two separate apartments but have them connected.  We came up with this arrangement [...]

Walgreens
Originally uploaded by fxdirect
I have been reading a lot lately about the number of people that use pharmacy shopping to get some really good deals including a number of free after rebate (FAR) items.  My girlfriend loves shopping at Walgreens due to the selection of interesting and fun cosmetic products and the politeness of the [...]

Since moving back home to Vermont I have continued using my bank from Colorado. As I mentioned earlier I believe that having a local bank is an important aspect of building my personal finance team.  My bank in Colorado has so far been very accommodating (reimbursed ATM fees, sent me postage paid envelopes and deposit [...]