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Who Can Afford College Anymore?

Who can afford college? Maybe nobody, or at least not the common folk like you and I. Maybe the types of people that can bribe the Coach or the Admissions peeps into letting their child in without contest. I just went to my daughter’s college to get the payments set-up. First things first. Am I … Read more

Blog 101: You can’t turn your head for a minute

Blog open again

You can’t turn your head for a minute. There I was, minding my own business, doing my Blog Training like I said I would. I began noticing that I wasn’t getting any traffic hits on my page. Weird But, sadly not the first time. Anywho, I went about my business and was pretty caught up … Read more

Heading off to Blog Training

Blog training

I’m going to do some blog training.  I have a course that I bought a year ago and I never finished it.  When I built my blog, I added a bunch of things that I learned from other people and didn’t necessarily follow along with the training.  I think I’m paying for it now. As … Read more

The Uber and Lyft Vomit Scam

The “Vomit Scam” is becoming increasingly popular among Lyft and Uber drivers.  We were the victim of such scam while we were in Florida at Disney World. So, it goes a little something like this… We were at Disney World in Florida for The Summit Cheer Nationals.  My daughter’s last (EVER!) cheer competition.  We had … Read more

Financial Moron Travel Advice #1

I am currently on travel in Disney World, Florida.  I’m here because my daughter has her very last Cheer Competition (EVER!!!) here.  It is a major International event that is run by one of the premier cheer athletic organizations in the country.  That’s promo speak for “you pay through the nose for this”.  The competition … Read more

Trying to Budget as a Parent

Parent trap

Even being a parent and having tracked my expenditures for several months, I could see a definite pattern.  Each and every month that I have been doing so have been financially crazy in their own right.  The constants are still there.  Things like rent, car insurance, cellphone bill, credit card bills, etc.  The variables are … Read more

Tax Day, duh duh dummm

WooooHoooo!! No, not really. Tax day for most can be a scary time. This year things were especially difficult as the President’s new tax laws were causing many more to not have taken enough taxes out during the year to avoid owing. I was hearing stories from friends that they were owing thousands. The people … Read more

Quality Time

shady spot

Wooohooo! Yesterday was a blast! My son and I rode our mountain bikes. He’s turning 15 in a few days. We have been riding mountain bikes near our house for a few months now and it really has been good, quality time. This was different though, as we went with my brother in law (BiL) … Read more

LAX for Australian Motorcycle Suspension

I just made the trip to LAX for the Australian’s motorcycle suspension. From my house, it’s roughly 91 miles. That doesn’t sound too bad, but it’s L.A. My friends came out from Australia to race the AMA Supercross Futures. It’s an amatuer race that runs the day after some of the Pro Supercross races. They … Read more

Traveling for Cheer

a day in the life

We spent the weekend traveling to Phoenix for a Cheer Competition. This is one of those things that you must do as a parent. Cheer is no different than Baseball, or Football, whereas you dedicate time and money so that you child can play a sport and interact with other children the same general age … Read more