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Category Archives: Goals
Unemployment negotiations
On Tuesday night, my wife and I discussed my unemployment. Don’t worry, I’m still happily employed. The problem is: I don’t want to be!
My goal for a long time has been to make enough money from my own business to be able to quite my day job and work from home full time. My wife is [...]
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Updated Cost of Food Page
I’ve updated my Cost of Food page to allow you to define who is in your family. So, for example, you can say that your family has one male age 19–50, one female age 19–50, and one child age 2–3. My cost of food calculator will use USDA data to determine the average national monthly [...]
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Cost of Food for a Family of Two
Recently my wife, Becca, and I were trying to come up with numbers for our monthly food budget, but weren’t sure how much to put in. During this process, Becca found a cool page from the USDA that provides monthly estimates for how much food should cost each month based on different budgets. For example, [...]
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Quality of Life Purchases
My wife and I are tightwads frugal. We’ve managed to save a good chunk of money by cutting a lot of the “extras” out of our lives, such as frequent trips to the movies and eating out on a regular basis. Occasionally we have friends or family imply (or sometimes outright say) that we aren’t [...]
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Traffic Goals
Building websites is fun, but what is the point if nobody goes to them? I’d love to increase my traffic but it is hard to get motivated or track progress without a goal.
So to give myself a goal and to help encourage myself to promote my sites better, I’ve set up a little feature on this [...]
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Zend Certified Engineer
Today I took the Zend PHP 5 certification exam, and passed! As of writing this post, I am not in the Zend Yellow Pages yet, so if you click the icon it will make me look like a liar, but trust me, I passed. I’m in the Zend Yellow Pages, and you can click the [...]
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Financial Goals
As part of my quest to rid myself of my day job, I’ve decided to write down my financial goals.
6 month goal: $1,000/month in passive income (January 31, 2009)
1 year goal: $1,000/week in passive income (July 31, 2009)
I wanted goals that were achievable but would require me to grow. I also wanted my goals to reflect that I [...]
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I made it!