Tiny House Living For the past few years I have been FASCINATED with the tiny house movement. I devour new episodes of ALL Tiny House shows on HGTV…or at least I did when we had cable 🙂 These days, I’m content with reading blogs about it like Two Cup House and Mini Motives. Hint: Go […]
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Hump Day Headlines: How We Spend $300/Month on Groceries
This week I was talking with a colleague at work and realized that they spend $800 EVERY month on groceries. WHAT?!? They’re a family of 4, but 2 of them are small children, and 1 child is breast feeding. So, that’s basically a family of 3. And let’s face it, little kids just don’t eat […]
When Buying Stocks Is More Exciting Than Buying Shoes…
Last week I hit a BIG milestone. I’ve been creeping towards this milestone for a couple of years now. But last week, I HIT IT. I am now contributing the maximum contribution to my 401k plan. That’s right. $18,000/year is going into my retirement account (before the company match)! A few weeks prior to bumping […]
Kids & Cash: Grasshopper Teachings
As I was scouring the internet this week reading other financial blogs, I was excited to come across This One by our friends at How To Stuff Your Pig. It’s all about financial gift giving for children. I was amazed that the very first suggestion is the EXACT one we will be doing for Mini […]
Frugal Fail: A Fast Food Confession
Now that the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is over and we’re heading back to work today, WE HAVE A CONFESSION. As you all know, Mr. MMM and I have dedicated ourselves to analyzing every. single. purchase. BUT, (that’s the eraser word. it erases everything you said before it. try it) we are not perfect, and we […]
Hump Day Headlines: Thanksgiving Day Prep
I’ve noticed that many of our frugal blogger friends have taken the second half of this week off to spend time with their family and friends. Here at Mad Money Monster, we are still working our day jobs today (ugh) AND we still have something to say. Although, you can maybe expect this post to […]