Blogging Away Debt

Yay! My Garden Produced Something After All

I really wanted a garden this year, but I didn’t get it planted until the beginning of July. I dug up my garden with just a shovel and it was a pretty tough job due to the rocks and roots I uncovered. Not to mention the ant hill (although it really wasn’t a hill per se) I discovered.

The only thing I planted were pickling cucumbers (I call them pickles). They are a must-have summer favorite for me and the love for them dates back to when I was a child. Nothing was better than going out to the garden and picking a fresh pickle and eating it right then and there.

I’ve watched the plants grow the past few months, and I started losing hope of getting a single pickle out of the group for all I saw were the flowers. I even told my son a few days ago that we wouldn’t have any pickles from our garden this year. He loves pickles as much as I do and he was bummed.

Then, low and behold yesterday I spotted one. Then another. I was able to pick two small pickles to bring inside. After my son got home from school, I prepared them for us to eat and we had a little feast. Having a pickle in September was awesome. It almost makes me wonder if there is some way to have a winter garden inside and I may have to look into that.

If anyone has any ideas on an indoor garden, feel free to share. I’d love to try it if there is some advice out there on how to make it work.

Friday Blog Highlight!

by Tricia

This week’s highlight blog is another personal finance blog, and the blogger has a very different financial situation than I. While my net worth is still a big negative, his net worth is creeping up on $600,000.

Here are a few reasons I visit his blog:

1.)Â He is very thorough with explaining and analyzing things. A good example is his look at a possible move to Chicago.Â I like seeing that detail, and it motivates me to really think before making decisions that will affect our finances.

2.)Â He posts net worth increases like this one. Having an increase of over $25K in a month is awesome! You may wonder if I am jealous about that. Of course, it would be niceÂ to have net worth increases like that, but I’m not really jealous. Instead, I am very thankful he is blogging about his finances because maybe I can learn valuable information!

3.)Â He’s a Quicken Nut like I am. I say Quicken Nut in a good way though 🙂

4.) Â He discusses asset allocation. That’s still a pretty new thing to me, but I am learning. Once our debt is gone – we will be in the saving and investing arena (that still sounds very weird to say).

Makingourway, thank you for blogging.Â For this family in debt, you provide an inspiration to where we would like to be financially some years down the road.Â Keep blogging – I’ll keep reading and learning 😉