Rainbow Retainer
It's amazing what a trip home spent balancing your mom's checkbook will do to your ambition. Allow me to explain. Somehow in helping my mom use Quicken to track her expenses and income for both her personal checking and her business I realized all the stupid things that I do that make my life harder. I'm sure the things that I do are quite typical of the average person but they're kind of hypocritical. I try to give people advice or talk about how it will be in the future as far as my finances go, but then I go and buy something stupid. Or put so much money toward my credit card bill that I can't pay my other bills. I just flat out don't keep track of my money very well at all. And I have a lot of trouble living within my means. Well, not so much anymore, it's gotten a lot better. But it's still not great. Now, back to the beginning of this post. I'm feeling a whole lot better about things, I'm more enlightened. I saw how my mom lives...