Life, Family, and Health
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
May 5, 2008 :: Life, Family, and Health :: 8 Comments
Mother's Day 2008 is Sunday, May 11th. Do you have something picked out for your mom yet? When it comes to buying gift, I am pretty lousy. I always feel overwhelmed and usually scramble at the last minute. This Mother's Day, I would like to do something ...
The Cost of Road Rage and Aggressive Driving
April 30, 2008 :: Life, Family, and Health :: 39 Comments
I missed work yesterday because I was a victim of road rage (ironically, after I wrote about safe driving last week). Someone felt it was acceptable to block two lanes of a three lanes highway, get out of his car, open my door and start beating me. As the ...
The Best Wedding Tips and Stories Giveaway
April 29, 2008 :: Life, Family, and Health :: 30 Comments
The wedding season is upon us. In a few weeks, we will be seeing weddings and happy faces all around us. As a way of rewarding my readers and bloggers who regularly read Moolanomy, I am going to start another giveaway. The Best Wedding Tips and Stories Giveaway The Prize The ...
25 Ways To Save Money On Health Care
April 24, 2008 :: Life, Family, and Health :: 28 Comments
I came home from work last night and my wife handed me the May issue of Parents magazine. She pointed out an articled called "25 Ways to Save Money on Health Care" by Teri Cettina. She thought I might like it, and she was right! I am going to ...
10 Ways New Parents Overspend On Their Newborns
April 23, 2008 :: Frugal Living, Life, Family, and Health :: 32 Comments
My wife and I have been new parents for nearly five months now. Lucky for us, we got some good advices early on, including those from a guest post by Paidtwice: 10 “Preparing For Baby†Tips For the Frugal-Minded. However, I understand how easy it is to overspend on ...
Touching Peoples’ Lives
April 14, 2008 :: Insurance, Life, Family, and Health :: 13 Comments
When I started blogging, I'd never thought that my writing could possibly impact anyone. Above all else, it was a way for me to learn more about money management. It was more about me than it was about others. This all changed last Friday, when I read a ...
Health Insurance, Medical Expenses, and Unscrupulous Doctors
February 14, 2008 :: Life, Family, and Health :: 13 Comments
The other day, David at My Two Dollars lamented how he's falling further into debt due to his medical bills. The gauntlet of procedures he's going through just reminded me of my own situation. In fact, we just received my wife's first hospital bill -- $1,510 for her epidural! ...
The Big Rocks of Life
February 1, 2008 :: Life, Family, and Health, Money :: 15 Comments
Sometimes, it's easy to focus too much on money and forget why money is important. To me, the most important reason to have money is so that my family and I can survive -- e.g., to pay for food, shelter, clothes, medicine, health care, etc. -- the basic living ...
How To Protect Your Greatest Asset, 6 Ideas
January 17, 2008 :: Job and Career, Life, Family, and Health, Money :: 27 Comments
Recently, my friend Patrick from Cash Money Life wrote, "Your Greatest Asset is the Ability to Create Income." In it, he said: "What is your greatest asset? Most people think it is their house. They are wrong. Bank account? Wrong again. For the vast majority of people, the greatest asset ...
Public Declaration
November 23, 2007 :: Life, Family, and Health :: 7 Comments
A while ago Brip Blap started a Public Declaration Meme, and challenged a few friends to declare something publicly -- great for accountability by the way! In this post, I commit publicly to... ...hug my parents every day... Photo of Pinyo and nephew taken by his wife When we were young, ...
Why Do You Work So Hard?
October 20, 2007 :: Job and Career, Life, Family, and Health, Money :: 20 Comments
Occasionally, I like to share some of the stories that floating around the Net and email systems with my blog readers. This is a great story that my wife sent me (may be it's a hint). Photo from BigFoto The story is about a boy and his dad. "Daddy, may I ask ...
Little things you can do to save money and our planet
October 15, 2007 :: Frugal Living, Home and Real Estate, Life, Family, and Health :: 19 Comments
Well today is Blog Action Day and a lot of bloggers are blogging about our environment today. Being a personal finance blogger, I am going to make this one related to money...again. A lot of people think that being Green is expensive -- e.g., you have to buy Energy Star ...
The Three Stonecutters
September 15, 2007 :: Job and Career, Life, Family, and Health :: 5 Comments
In my post "What if I became an emergency medicine doctor?," Jonathan of My Money Blog said, "The main thing is that if you go into medicine for the money, you’ll be much less likely to succeed and the money won’t be worth it." I fully agree with his ...
Save our environment by giving and getting stuff for free
September 13, 2007 :: Frugal Living, Life, Family, and Health :: 8 Comments
Some of you may already know about The Freecycle Networkâ„¢. Over the weekend, my wife and I visited our friends in New Jersey. We discussed how companies make so many products for babies and parents now that it is very easy to overspend. During the conversation, ...
The Americans Super-size Problem
August 27, 2007 :: Business, Life, Family, and Health :: 12 Comments
On our vacation this past weekend, my wife and I ate out a lot. This was probably the most expensive part of our trip. Being from Thailand, eating out is an entirely different experience. Over there, portions are much smaller and less expensive. Whereas here in ...
