Frugal Babe

I just finished our taxes.  It’s the culmination of probably 40 hours of work over the last several weeks, and it feels pretty darn good.  I spent $125 to get one hour of consultation from our accountant, but other than that I did it all on my own.  I finished the state and federal corporate [...]

It’s after midnight, and I’ve been working on our taxes since about 11 am, so I’m a bit cross-eyed at the moment.  But I’m nearly finished.  I have a meeting with our accountant on Monday to go over our corporate return, which I need to finalize in order to complete our personal returns.  But it [...]

All is takes is a quick glance around the internet to see that the financial outlook these days is not as rosy as it has been for most of this decade.  The doom and gloom crowd is predicting a full blown recession, while the more optimistic folks say that there will just be a bit [...]

I have a buy and hold strategy when it comes to investing.  Not because I’m highly educated in matters of the stock market and believe this to be the best method.  Instead, I know that we need to be investing our money, I know that we’re investing for the long term, and I’m woefully uneducated [...]