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AmericanFamily — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:08:53 +0000

Someone on facebook asked what you would do if you won the Mega Millions lottery. I know I am not going to win, but a girl can dream.

If I won, the first thing I would do is hire a lawyer to set up a trust to help us stay anonymous. Then we would probably [...]

Debt (less not more)

AmericanFamily — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:53:06 +0000

I just realized I forgot to mention something HUGE that happened.

I have complained about mentioned my school loan debt…not infrequently (here, here, here). Debt drives me absolutely crazy. According to the post above, I had about $15,221 in grad school debt in April of 2010.

By taking a little extra money from here and [...]

Hustlin’

AmericanFamily — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:49:39 +0000

Money money money MONEY. Money!

We have been doing a lot of repairs and renovations on the house. We knew we would need to do this work when we bought it, so it isn’t like it is a surprise, but hot damn, house repairs on an 80 year old house that has not been updated [...]

Nothing is sure in life but…

AmericanFamily — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:02:38 +0000

This isn’t going to be a long drawn out post (because I have ceilings to paint), but I do need to make a brief comment on it.

There is a big bruhaha about a law professor and his wife who earn $455,o00 who blogged that he can’t afford a tax hike. Here is a link [...]

More on Debt

AmericanFamily — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:28:52 +0000

I started to answer some of the school loan comments in the comments section, but it might make more sense to answer them as their own post because several comments had overlapping themes.

On Working while in College:

Both Mr. A and I worked while we were undergrads (we met working at the same restaurant), [...]