Next week I'll be featuring five days of saving money tips - from organizing your kids' rooms to saving money on your grocery bill. If you have any tips to be featured during my week of "Making Cents for You," send them to me at youngmommychronicles@gmail.com. Like President Obama said last week, "This is not a game." The economy is probably going to get worse before it gets better. Let's keep … [Continue reading...]

So...after falling in love with a house that seemed to be perfect for our family, we had to back out of the contract after the horrendous home inspection.  Here's the old house:  Cute, right? Man, I loved everything about this house. It just felt so...right. But we kept looking and I've fallen in love with another house. Even more than the first one. I'm beginning to feel like a house slut. We … [Continue reading...]

If you want to read the previous entries: Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 We viewed five houses Saturday during our open house with the Realtor. In short: House #1 = Had a bad case of the Stuck-in-1955-and-don't-know-how-to-get-up. Nice elderly couple lived there (maybe since it was built?) and everything was just incredibly dated. ("Dated," I'm learning, is the polite way to say, … [Continue reading...]