Last week I shared a goal for reducing our grocery budget by 1/4. I am back to report success. I started a few days into the 2 week period, but I tightened things up enough to actually end the week with money in my pocket. Granted, no one needed clothes and we didn’t need cleaning [...]
Reducing the Grocery Budget:
How I’m Doing It
January 22nd, 2009 · 10 Comments
Tags: Finance
Funding Special Education
November 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Sarah Palin in the last week before the election, gave a speech about fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provisions, for the first time since its inception. She also spoke of providing federal and state dollars to follow kids if parents choose to enroll them in private schools versus public schools, in [...]
Tags: Education · Finance · society
Babysitting: What do you pay?
June 19th, 2008 · 17 Comments
I had an interesting experience this week. A freshman at a local college responded to an ad I’d posted for occasional care for the Punks. She sounded energized and excited about working with our family. I was thrilled, too.
Then pay came up. She was charging $5-6 per hour for sitting services. [...]
