Posts Tagged ‘Financial Peace’

My Secret’s Out

// March 8th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Uncategorized

Most of you loyal readers (that would be three out of the five of you) know how cheap I am. Ouch. I hate buying things at Target that add $30 to my grocery bill that I can’t even eat.

But I’m going to have to cave tomorrow and buy deodorant. All of my Secret samples are gone. It’s been about 3 years since I’ve had to buy that stuff, and I know the price has probably doubled since my last purchase. In the interest of friendships, keeping my job, smelling a mite better than the family dog, and getting closer than five feet to Ron Burgundy, I must buy some. It’s the least I can do to stimulate the economy, and the most I probably will do.

Note to companies of those dreaded products: send out samples and if I like it, I will buy it. Cut out the fancy packaging that probably costs more than the actual product. I am not impressed by scratch-n-sniff labels or newfangled dispensers. I’d even buy Oxy pads in a zip-lock bag. But I’ll still cut them in half.

I just want the stupid product.

And I might even buy into this bail-out thing if Uncle Sam would send me a sample.


Tea tonight: Green with pomegranate

Lookin’ for that free car. Holla.

// June 7th, 2008 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I hate car$. I’m looking for one to le$$en the burden at the pump. My current FSP doesn’t work into my plan.

But I love to listen to Dave Ramsey. He would like my cupboards full of samples and the recent financial restraint that I could never have imagined a year ago, though if I ever went to see him in person, I may have to cave and buy myself something new to wear. I only wish I would have found Dave and his principles 30 years ago…here’s why:

Had I started the free car program 4-5 years ago, this process would be well in place. My question to you is, knowing full well the next 4 years will pass (just like the last 4 years did), where will you be sitting with your car? And where will I decide to go? I want to be a good steward of the resources God has given me, and I’m heaven-bent on doing better this time. I pray and struggle and pray some more that my choice will be wise and right. And as I do, I know the ol’ Honda Wag-O-Van is probably still running somewhere – and paid for.
Tea today: Genmaicha