by Libby Balke | Miscellaneous
My husband and I are what pop culture refers to as “millennials”: born in the early 80s, we’re too old to be Gen X’ers (much to my chagrin), so we’ve been tagged Gen Y. We’re the generation that came of age with AOL Instant...
by Libby Balke | Miscellaneous
I’ve been a loyal Amazon Prime member for years – in fact, I enrolled in the program within a week of purchasing my very first Kindle (one of the black and white ones that didn’t even have a touch screen). Since Amazon Prime’s inception in...
by Libby Balke | Miscellaneous
I am a child of the 90s; I grew up on grunge, and spent most of my teenage years wearing my dad’s old flannel shirts and combat boots, despite the fact that both overpowered my frame. So it should come as no surprise that one of my favorite songs of all time...
by Libby Balke | Miscellaneous
After the early morning garage sale shoppers were long gone, after the good-quality items had been put up for sale on Craigslist, after the rest of our stuff had been taken to Goodwill for one massive donation, it was still there like my very own stalker. It was our...
by Libby Balke | Miscellaneous
It’s a phrase I’ve been reading a lot lately around the personal finance blogosphere: lifestyle inflation. To me, it’s another way of saying that someone is working on keeping up with the Joneses. It’s also a concept that completely goes...
by Andi B. | I Am So Cheap, Miscellaneous, Money Relationships, Personal
by A.B. Sometimes I think people have learned nothing from the distressing economy. I’ve been looking for a dining room table in our local craigslist. We’ve decided not to run up credit cards on everything we want, but it’s getting a little difficult...