August was an eventful month. Mr. Stapler changing jobs sent me into a flurry of financial planning activity, from evaluating health insurance options, determining our retirement needs, sorting throu Read more [...]

Whether you're clearing out your child's toy box or buying baby gear, the end of summer is the time to get ready for fall consignment sales. If you're a parent and haven't already shopped a consignmen Read more [...]

Help me out here: Do I keep my new laptop or should I put the money towards our next student loan? In the past year, we have only made one extra payment on our student loans. Although it was signific Read more [...]

There are retirement investment options available for those of us who work for companies without retirement plans. Just because your employer doesn't have a plan doesn't mean you can't. The day after Read more [...]

Tomorrow is Stapler Confessions' first birthday. No, I'm not going to do a cake smash pic. Instead, I'm giving presents to two lucky readers. A lot has happened in this past year -- most of it unexpe Read more [...]

Baby is coming. Before I know it, the scent of fall will be in the air, the leaves will have dropped from the trees, and we will be welcoming home the second little human being we created. It's thrill Read more [...]

Have you ever tried to score below average on a school activity? How about this activity: Back to School Shopping. The average American family spends over $250 a year to get their kids ready for sc Read more [...]

It's probably the last thing on your mind, and definitely the last thing you want to think about, but disability insurance is important coverage to have -- in my book, it's more important than life i Read more [...]

Remember when I was down in the dumps about our slow debt payoff progress? Remember when I set some money-making and money-saving goals for myself? I do. And I acted on some of them -- to varying degr Read more [...]

In the past three years, our family has had four different health insurance plans -- some good, some bad. I feel a bit traumatized from the switch-overs and the surprises we got each time. Yet, here w Read more [...]