Where we stand...and what we're doing
Oh boy am I in a bad situation.Checking Account Balance: -£183.07 ($359.45)Savings Account: £0.00Tax Free Savings: £0.00Credit Card Debt: £0.00As you can see I am currently broke. I am one month behind...
View ArticleSomethings Gotta Give
In order to meet my goal of saving $10,000 in 6 months somethings gotta give.April is our first month of living to a budget and so far we're doing pretty good. This is our experimental month, we're...
View ArticleSmokers save you money
I want to start by thanking all the employees at my job who smoke. These poor suckers smokers take on average 15-20 minutes out of their work day to enjoy a slow suicide. And they get paid for the...
View ArticleCutting the fat on your budget
Is your budget bulging around the waist? It could be time to cut the fat, it sure is for me.I am already living to a tight budget, I need to be to realize my goal of $10,000 in 6 months.Lets break down...
View ArticleSaving money on heating
The Tight Fisted Mister has a post on heating his apartment in April.I moved to England from Miami a few years ago. In Miami, heating is not a big expense, infact it isnt an expense at all. So when I...
View ArticleSaturday Links
Every Saturday I will post some of my favorite articles of the week.Leo over at Zen Habits talks about doubling your productivity Trent at The Simple Dollar talks about saving some money at the grocery...
View ArticleRevamped RSS feed
I've revamped the RSS feed, so if you can please scrap the old feed and use this feed insteadhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/The6MonthProjectthanks
View ArticleThe ultimate in saving
Trent over at The Simple Dollar wrote a great article onthe cost of childcare. It's a hefty article but well worth the read, especially if you have rugrats of your own.But I want to focus on one area...
View ArticleThe 96th Carnival of Personal Finance
AllFinancialMatters is hosting the 96th Carnival of Personal Finance. Go check it out.This was 6monthproject's first carnival, and I'm happy to say we were listed! Here's to JLP for being a great host,...
View ArticleProgress Report Monday
Every Monday at the 6monthproject is Progress Report day.Today was a positive day, for the first time since the blog started the progress bar has moved. We have saved 6% of our goal of $10,000I made...
View ArticleWheres all the good posts gone?
Sorry for the lack of posts this week. I was called away to a conference for work and didn't have enough Internet time to keep up posting on the blog.To make up for lack of posts, i have some great...
View ArticleStarting your day the right way.
We all know the benefits of waking up with the sun. I do it on a regular basis and my days are more productive and less stressed. Leo from Zen Habits has a great article on waking early that I won't...
View ArticleBeating the mid-day slump
Keeping with the theme of eating right for cheap I want to share with you how I beat the dreaded mid-day slump. You all know the time of day. Breakfast is wearing off, your stomach is starting to...
View ArticleNew RSS Feed
Just a quick note to our readers that I have updated the 6 Month Project RSS feed.You may need to add the feed to your reader again. The feed link can be found here If you could, please update your...
View ArticleHow chicken can feed you for a week
Keeping with the theme of eating well on the cheap I want to briefly talk to you about my favourite frugal food. Chicken.Boy do we love chicken in the KR House. Just yesterday I posted a recipe for a...
View ArticleFrugal Travel Part One
In a few days Ms KR and I are going on a 3 day trip to Paris. Ms. KR has never been and recently told me that it would be disappointing if she lived in Europe for a year and never saw Paris.Paris, if...
View ArticleFrugal Travel Part Two
Following up from my previous post how can one survive in Paris for 3 days without breaking the bank. We are specifically speaking about Paris, but these tips apply to all trips.Research Research...
View ArticleMoral Dilemma: donate or make a profit?
On October 2nd Ms. KR and I will be flying from the UK back to Florida. After two years of living in the UK we have decided to move back to the States. Read more about that here. As you can imagine we...
View ArticleWhoa! Link Spam
For some reason all my digged items have been published to my rss feed. I'm really sorry about that, the offending service has been deleted and it won't happen again.Once again sorry about that!
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