Dave Ramsey live? You bet we are in! You know that for over 3 years now we have been on the Dave Ramsey plan for money management. We’ve shared the Financial Peace journey with you and have been quite transparent about how this plan changed our lives. Hooray to being on baby step #6! We […]
Bank Day For New Monthly Budget – How We Do It
Today is bank day for new monthly budget for July. Since taking Financial Peace University over a year ago we have stuck with the monthly budgeting system Dave Ramsey teaches in the class. It was a little odd to get used to at first, because we never (ever) used cash. Sixteen months after finishing the […]
One Year Since We Graduated Financial Peace University – Here Is Our Update
The other day I glanced on the fridge (where we proudly have our completion certificate) and realized it has been one year since we have graduated from Financial Peace University. One year already. When we first started our journey on Financial Peace and decided to learn all about Dave Ramsey’s method for handling money we […]
The First Time We’ve Ever Felt This Way About a Tax Bill
For many of you we know that twice a year you get a tax bill in the mail for your property taxes if you own a home. In Michigan our property tax bills are split into a Summer and a Winter tax bill. A few weeks ago our Summer property tax bill arrived in the […]
We Did It – Graduated Financial Peace University FPU
Thanks for following along with us on our journey through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University, FPU as it is commonly called. After 9 weeks of class, we have finished the program. What a life changing experience it has been for both of us as you can probably tell from our other FPU weekly posts. Week […]
FPU Week 5 – What We Learned
We had a brilliant week 5 class of Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University last weekend. Lesson 5 was called Buyer Beware and it focused on how companies use marketing to convince us that we need their products. Companies aggressively compete for our business. We think we need them, so we use credit to buy them […]
Our FPU Journey – Week One Thoughts
Week one is in the books of our Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University class and we are looking forward to the second class in our FPU journey this weekend. Since we shared with you the fact that we were taking FPU, we thought that it may be helpful for you to hear our take away points from […]
We Did It – Signed Up For FPU (Financial Peace University)
We wanted to share with you guys something that has us pretty excited, because we know many of you are looking for ways to save more money and to use the money you make more wisely. Have you heard of Dave Ramsey? Have you ever listened to his daily radio show (I love to listen […]