I am curious to see what kind of vehicles my readers drive and why they drive the vehicles that they do. Purchasing a vehicle is usually a pretty major decision/expense and depending upon what kind vehicle you buy, how you pay for it (cash, credit), and how you maintain your vehicle can really affect your overall financial picture.
Well I just talked about how I’m going to have to start paying off my student loans come next summer, well I’ve got another expense I need to start planning for……our 2nd kid. My wife and I are expecting next July, which means I won’t be able to whack diapers out of the monthly expenses anytime soon 🙂
How do you ever become content with with the amount you are saving for retirement?
Sorry if this is just a ramble and I know this isn’t the worst problem in the world to have, but I’ve found saving to be too damn addictive. To me it’s the same as salary, you’ll never be content. You always think to yourself, you know if I was making $10,000 more a year I’d be so content and wouldn’t ever need to make more money than that, I would have all I would ever need. Then all of a sudden you get that $10,000 boost in salary, your lifestyle/expectations adjust and all of a sudden you just need a little bit more to make you content.
Well I’ve always been wanting to write a entry or two on my pimp ride as I think it is one of the main reasons why I have been able to save as much money as I have so far, but I guess I’ll start with a story on how my car or more accurately my driving habits ended up costing me a good chunk of money.
Well this is my first time hosting a festival/carnival so please excuse me if I mess something up. Anyway we had 28 submissions to this week’s festival. Enjoy!
Well I recently had a coworker send me an article on the evils of shaving cream and after reading the article I quit using shaving cream cold-turkey and I couldn’t be happier. Not only can I shave quicker and safer, but think of all the money I willl be saving by not every having to buy shaving cream or after-shave for the rest of my life. Well ok it’s not that much at less than $2 per can that probably lasts 3-4 months, but still if I can spend less money on something and get better results I’m a happy guy. Besides building lasting wealth is more about small boring montonous things like this rather than the get rich quick using some glamorous method that you saw on an infomercial or MSNBC.
Well after my go around with the chemlawn guy I think his salespitch actually started working, although not necessarily in his favor. Basically what he got me doing was thinking about my lawn and well my pride as a past golf course worker started to get the best of me. Certainly I was still not delerious enough to actually pay the guy loads of money to spray some crap on my lawn so that it would look good for a week or two until I’d have to have him come back and spray again. It did however make me delerious enough to actually care about my lawn.