Blog Title: One Money Dummy Getting Smarter

When saving up is a bad idea . . .

I’d been meaning to buy a backup drive for a long time, but it hadn’t made it to the top of the spending priority list. There were other things, like doctor bills and gas and, you know, savings and stuff, and I told myself that instead of taking the money out of the savings account, read more..

A Hideous Room

When we bought this house, we simply found a great deal on a set of good-looking used furniture and moved it into our front room. I think the flaw behind this plan is obvious in this photo. Those of you who have an inherent sense of aesthetics are probably cringing right now. I’ve resisted painting read more..

Pain, and hopefully some gain.

Pain, pain, and, oh yes, more pain. Our front lawn was a disaster when we bought this house. I’m not sure what the previous owner thought he was doing, but apparently it involved gutting a lovely old apple tree from the front lawn, digging up the front edge of the lawn and filling it with river read more..

And they ate cake!

I was actually pretty pleased with how the cake attempt turned out. I had to use two 9*13 cakes in order to have enough room for the truck. I just laid them side by side and covered them both with a thick layer of frosting.  It looked a lot cuter in person than it read more..

The Great Cake Attempt

For BabyMoney’s birthday, I have great and ambitious plans to hybridize this cake and this cake with the toys we’ve already got at home. I’ve already made two test cakes to practice the flat-cake method and the crumb-coat method, both of which are very well demonstrated by this cake-decorating series on Monkey See videos. I realize read more..