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15 ways to find EXTRA money in your budget??
Last week I talked ALL about SINKING FUNDS and how to plan ahead for upcoming expenses like holidays, back to school etc. BUT what if you DIDN’T plan ahead and now it is nearly October and you do not have cash squirreled away for Christmas?? ORRR what if you still have some debt in the back of your mind that you would like to get a jump on?? Or better yet, what if you just want to add some extra cash to your savings?? Here are a few tips and tricks that will help you squeeze some extra cash out of your already tight budget. ORRR just help you start…
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Budgeting tips: What are sinking funds??
Budgeting. The dirty word that nobody wants to talk about, but EVERYBODY wants to excel at innately or learn through some sort of magical osmosis. But then month after month and then year after year we spend our hard earned money and have no clue where it goes. ORRRR we work really hard on our budget, and rock it’s socks off for a month until a holiday or birthday or field trip or soccer uniform pops up and throws a wrench into our perfectly laid plans. AND THEN we deviate from the budget a little…and then a lot…and then we throw the budget out the window and go back to…
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The Widow Of Pale Harbor–book review
I was given a review copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review, but the opinions expressed are my own. Every year when the nights get cooler and the leaves start to fall, I get the urge to cuddle up with a cozy blanket and a good book. Honestly, I am READY for some good old fashioned winter hibernation right about NOW…See ya’ll in the spring. I lucked out and received my copy of THE WIDOW OF PALE HARBOR by HESTER FOX right before leaving to Roche Harbor…sooooo I got to read ABOUT a pale harbor AT the harbor…tricky tricky!! THE WIDOW OF PALE HARBOR…
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The Historic Davenport Hotel
The year 1914 was a big year in the United States. Baseball was forever changed as Babe Ruth began his record-breaking major league career, US politics was changed forever by the marriage of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, and the world was never to be the same as WWI loomed ahead and threatened to be the war to end ALL wars. But in Upper Left-hand Corner USA, Spokane, Washington was also moving up in the world with the opening of the opulent Davenport Hotel. In its heyday, The Davenport was a masterpiece of architecture, a benchmark of hospitality, and a front-runner for technology. And now over a century later, it is…
