On our last trip to the Great White North, we had the pleasure of staying at the home of a nice older couple, via Airbnb. They gave us a warm Canadian greeting and showed us to our cozy basement quarters equipped with all that we needed for our brief stay. They were very accommodating and …
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to try-out food delivery service, DoorDash. I want to share my experience with you and am also interested to know about your thoughts on the service if you’ve given it a go. DoorDash trial I’ve recently written about convenience – and how far I (we) go to pay …
If you are a family that is choosing to have your wife stay at home in order to care for your house and/or your children, often it feels like you may have made the wrong decision. Shouldn’t “the lady of the house” be working and bringing in income as well? After all, that’s what many …
Last week, I walked out of the grocery store to my car with a bag of groceries in one hand and my phone, wallet and a pack of gum in the other. As soon as I saw the gum, I thought, “shoot, I didn’t pay for this!” I was immediately struck with guilt and knew …
The smell of fall is in the air and that means that fall yard work is just around the corner. The fall is the best time to work on your lawn and prep it for having a nice looking lawn next year. For many years, my neighbors and I went in together on renting either …
With all the ways you can get others to do simple and everyday tasks for you – from washing your car to fast-food delivery – I’ve wondered how far we’ll go to pay for convenience. Thought it would be a fun question to pose at Reddit. Here’s some of the responses. “Pizza is the only …
During a stroll through Twitter one day, I happened upon an interesting tweet that was liked by Chewy.com (the online pet store where we purchase a lot of food for our pet bunny). I was struck by it and thought, “what a great way to land a job!”: If you’re a customer of Chewy, you …
One of the pleasures of managing a personal finance site is learning about new products / services that help people save money – and then getting to share them with you! So when we heard about Gen Mobile – we knew we’d like to learn more about them and give them a test run. Their …
When it comes to online courses on personal finances out there, they certainly run the gamut. Many of them stress different methods and angles of managing your money – but very few (I’ve found) teach specifically about investing. This is why we were excited to review the Multiply course offered by Sound Mind Investing (SMI). …
The following is a review provided to us by TTG reader, Doug, who uses Twigby Mobile. Since we have never written about them before at the site, I asked Doug if he’d chime in about his experience. Thanks Doug! If you ever have a product that you’d like to review at the site (and we …
