Pay off CC#1 by 4/15
First...Thank you for all of the welcome comments 
Am greatly enjoying reading everyone's updates.
So, as noted on my side bar, I am the mom of 3 teenagers and over the last few days, have been talking frankly with them about ways each of us can contribute to improving our finanical position. You know little things that we can each do to help -- like turn lights off when you leave a room, don't dry clothes for 2 days, don't eat 2 entire bags of chips in one sitting (my son is a human garbage disposal!). Anyway, am realizing that "change", for all of is not going to happen overnight, but is rather a gradual process which will hopefully lead up to each of us doing our part to help. While reading Thrifty Ray's Blog a few days ago, saw the Thoreau quote = "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it". This gave me the idea of quantifying our finances in terms of hours of work rather than in dollars in an effort to give my kiddos a different perspective on things. Here is is an exampe of what I printed up for them and hung on our fridge:
***Dollar values where XX's are.
Anyone else ever look at their expenses in terms of hours of work it requires?
What do ya think?
Getting Teens to Buy In
February 4th, 2009 at 01:33 am
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February 4th, 2009 at 02:42 am 1233715324
things like magazines get me the most! if i pay $9.90 for a magazine, that's half an hour of my life i worked for that. then i spend about 3 hours reading it, so that's 3.5 hours. most of what i read, i find, i either know anyway (magazines are sometimes repeating their stories) or have advertising for more things i could think about buying... which leads to MORE hours of working to buy the things... argh!
February 4th, 2009 at 03:17 am 1233717454
Yep - time is money.
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