The meme is The Budget Busters Challenge, wherein I need to list five things that cause me to break the budget. I for the LIFE of me can’t remember where I originally got ‘tagged’ for this, but it was too good a post to pass up anyway. If the person tagging me speaks up, I’ll [...]

Lynnae over at BeingFrugal.net hit me up for the "Life Gave Me Lemons" meme, so here goes.
 My lemonade moment was the first time I was fired.
I was working for a big-chain office supply store in 1992 as a ‘business machine salesman’ (that’s a computer sales geek, but this was before the Geek Squad, [...]