To me a money leak is money that is leaving your account and you aren’t even really aware of it because it’s considered small, which they are but once you do enough of them frequently enough it’s a lot of money over time. Like buying coffee everyday, buying lunch everyday, eating out a lot on week nights or weekends,…

I have so much spare change to take into coin star and get changed. Except that it’s back in CA and I probably won’t see it anytime soon. But once I figure out the budget that I’ve not been tending to I’ll look into saving the change for this trip over to GA and when my stuff comes back I'll turn it into a gift card…

For me that's hard because that point keeps rising every time I indulge in it. I just have to put arbitrary caps on everything until I can reset all my contentment levels and even then I can't trust myself to know when enough really is enough.

Thanks! Yea I was thinking it would never happen and here it is! The hardest parts were not enough time, we couldn’t be there for the movers and that logistical nightmare that’s been, and of course driving cross country with cats who are totally pissed about this. I’m writing this at 230 am because we lost time…

Same here. Never tasted the bitter before in them.

I haven’t done this lately but I created a year in advance budget with set aside amounts for needed things (including a significant amount of savings) and super important fun things I wanted to do. It allowed me to keep what was important but then cut out the not important like eating out (which as we are leaving and…

I totally didn’t do this but.....

Since high school I’ve had diet soda which while it doesn’t have calories definitely caused me to eat more. I never was a huge juice drinker once I got into the double digits. My thing is snacking and carbs.

From what I’ve heard that’s typical of owning a Mercedes. I’m sure they are fun but I don’t find them pretty or fun so even in my “if I win the lotto” dreams they never make the cut” let alone my in 5 years or when I get a real job dreams.

When we move I’m most worried about the gym not having the type of equipment I want or it not being in good enough condition. Some of the old equipment at one point got “fancy” (instead of being simple weights change when you change the peg now you have switches) and now it didn’t age as well as those that were basic…

We’ve been practicing this for awhile now. Hub’s job would love it if he worked 6 am to 5pm or even later and weekends all the time. It’s fine if once in awhile he works a weekend or works late or works early. But because they will never be satisfied he has had to learn how to say no when they push him to basically…

You only work 9 to 5. I say that because for many it is closer to 6 to 5 (if not later) if their boss had their way. My hub tries to keep it 730 to 4 or 430.

I found therapy helped in creating a solid foundation for change and for dealing with change, be it planned/unplanned, good/bad. That then allowed me to get our finances into a good place which helped indirectly with making the food we ate better (no eating out, severely limiting bad food, eating way more veggies and…

I’m slowly adopting the 250 minutes a week of cardio (not including weight training and the like). Right now I’m at 200 (comic con walking around wasn’t counted but I’m pretty sure it was more than 200 minutes) with low intensity (will work my way up to 250 and moderate to high intranets) and we’re moving cross…

I think the best one was the sharpening of knives. That's one less thing to have to own that rarely gets used.

Do you have any advice in what to look for in an agent and even home inspector? Possibly going to buy my first home ever shortly in a new town across the country.

I guess interview their family and ge the real scoop instead? Another option is to put them in a high stress situation and make it look like you're not there and then see how they treat others. If they still don't break then at least they're solid jerks who can hold it together even when really stressed out and that's…

This was before cash rewards. Having cash on me didn’t help. If spend it all I’d just get more and when I’d spend cash I’d often times have no what I spent it on. At least with a card you have a paper trail. (And I’d lose receipts super easily). Not to mention losing actual cash was a large possibility.

I guess I’m the exception. I’m more absent minded of spending cash than I am with plastic. I have to make sure I haven’t gone over my limit and I can pay the balance in full when it’s due but with cash I know I have it because it’s right there and then I immediately forget the entire process. I’ve “lost” more money…

Mine sucked. He didn't even do that.