Mrs. Nespy's World

Photo credit: forwardcom We are tithing people at our house. In other words, we give the first 10% of our paycheck to God via our churc...

Photo source: ColinBroug I have never hidden the fact that we are Bible-reading, devoted Christ followers in our home. We tithe.  What i...

Photo credit: penywise In the last 2-1/2 years, we've reduced our debt by $21,000. As much as that feels good to say, that fact reac...

We recently bought our son new bedroom furniture.  He had outgrown the nursery stuff and even though it was the convertible furniture that g...

Publix has been offering a certain selection of free prescriptions for a few years now, but in case you never got the news, didn't live...

Photo source: Sophia's Style We live in an area where all schools, public and private, wear uniforms. Although some of the private s...

Photo credit: ngould Have you ever thought about what extremes you would go to for money?  I mean, is there a particular sum of money th...

If you've been here a while, you've been walking through this process of getting out of a monumental amount of consumer debt with me...

Photo credit: bodgie Two weeks ago Chip was out of town for two days on orders from the National Guard.  So I had to drive Patrick to ...

Source: Maggies Notebook Today is going to be a political post. Wait, wait, wait!  Before you click away... I'm not going to be su...

Photo credit: LeoSynapse Yep - it's that time of year. Some people are itching to do their taxes, wanting the refund they deserve. O...

Featured in this weeks Carnival of Personal Finance ! In September we made a leap and took out a Lending Club loan to replace our timesha...

Is your bank one of the ones about to start charging you for using your debit card? Mine's not. Find a bank today that will let ...

If you've been following along with me, you know that every 4 months I run a credit report to make sure nothing looks crazy or out of wh...

A few days ago at work, some coworkers called to see if I wanted to go to lunch with them. Sometimes I do go just to get out of the office, ...

I received this as an email on Monday. I haven't verified the actual numbers to be correct, but they don't look completely out of li...

Here on the eve of the release of one of the most highly anticipated movies of a series (a 10-year series, might I add), I wanted to examine...

So almost 3 weeks ago Chip left for OCS after re-enlisting in the National Guard. After 4 days of torture, he returned home – the 10th perso...

So what do you do when life just doesn’t turn out the way you expected? I mean, we had a good plan to pay off our debt. By August we had pla...

I think I made a smart decision. Looking back, it seems like it was an obviously smart decision – on paper at least. But it was so hard to s...