GUEST POST from DON – $$ Talk

THE $$ TALK My wife and I often talk about finances. We turn off all electronics and update each other; the budget, the balances, the buoyancy. I tell her what I want to do, she tells me what she dreams doing. Good or bad we must choose well. With our financial resources we only have …
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GUEST POST from Don – Truly Basic

TRULY BASIC No frozen pizza or tater tots.  No boxed mac and cheese.  No steak or chops.  Eating hamburger meals with no wine or alcoholic beverages.  Making cookies instead of buying cookies.  Canceling cable, and movie apps.  No restaurants.  No food delivery services.  Now we are talking BASIC. No clothing or shoe (or purse) purchases, eliminating name brand phone services, no Uber, no …
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GUEST POST from Don – Floating

FLOATING thru RETIREMENT May 9, 2024 article by Lorie Konish was at CNBC and had some interesting facts.  She reported, for example that …4% of retirees say they are “living the nightmare financially.”15% say they are “struggling.”and another 34% are “not great, but not bad.” To summarize, 43% of retirees are under water, treading water, or …
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BUDGET FOOD HAUL! February 17, 2024

Pete and I went to 2 of the places where we used to shop when we lived in Houghton Lake: Pineview (McBain, MI) and Ebel’s (Falmouth, MI). We haven’t been there to either one in a very long time. This is our haul.