(Thanks to BlogHer Pic App for this crazy pic.) I talked at length this week with my friend Marlin, a first generation millionaire by-way-of his small business. (If you haven’t met him yet, please click here to meet him, here for part two– why some people don’t have money, and here to learn about savings.) He [...]

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sandhillsis on November 11th, 2009

Some of the best money spending advice I’ve ever got was from a former boss, the dad to the children I was a nanny for. He was a frugal sort of guy. (I wrote a little about them here in the context of a great waffle recipe). Anyway. They seemed to be great money managers [...]

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sandhillsis on November 6th, 2009

Until I married Ben, I was a dog person. I mean straight up, honest to God, dog person. I grew up hunting dogs, working cattle beside them and sharing meals with them in the evening. My life with Ben has been a blur of various dog problems, habits of going on tour, and renting from one [...]

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sandhillsis on November 2nd, 2009

(Thanks to BlogHer pic app for the cool photo!) “After you get your bucket patched you start to fill it up. Drip. Drip. Drip,” Marlin said. (If you missed the first installment of Confessions of a Millionaire click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2.) This statement made me wonder… Does faucet size [...]

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