Happenstance Havoc

Like most rational people, I love saving money. Do you want to get cash back and gift cards for buying the things you’d buy anyway? Do you love to thrift shop? If so, have you heard about Ibotta?  Couponing Didn’t Work For Me  I started couponing after watching TLC’s Extreme Couponers coming away with stockpiles of households for next to nothing. It was an endeavor that I never managed to save more than $100-$120 a month doing.  While couponing sounds like a good payoff, I had to spend hours upon hours searching for, collecting, clipping, and organizing these coupons. And, that’s not counting the hours it would take going through the stores with said coupons matching sales to coupons and ensuring the terms were met for redemption. Eventually, I just couldn’t devote the energy to it.  Ibotta  Works  Then I found Ibotta. It’s a cash rebate app, and it will change the way you thrift shop forever. The app features a plethora of retail n...

Self-help books often issue an edict that life is what you make it. If you want it, then just go out and get it. While that may work for some, most of us live in a world happening around us, to us, and either moving against us or with us. We can’t control life’s tides no more than we can control the ocean’s tide. Being at the right place, time, circumstance, etc has a lot to do with it. Now, that’s not to say that you’re not a special snowflake if you just jump on a boat and set sail without a map, food, water, and other supplies. Life is about planning, thinking ahead, and making moves to be in that right time and place. For some, however, no amount of diligence and prep work alters the course life’s tides takes you.  I thought my course was set. I worked hard to finish nursing school. I made moves in my first nursing job as a medication nurse that led me to becoming charge nurse within months and ADON (assistant director of nursing) after a year. I treated starting a family i...