December 2025
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Our first Christmas with both kids home as guests
Emily is driving down from Columbus, Josh is coming up from Cincinnati, and for the first time they'll both leave again on the 26th. A different kind of holiday.
Bumping Greg's 401(k) with catch-up contributions
After 50 you can put more in. How much we added, what it did to his paycheck and why we waited until the kid bills slowed down.
Dropping collision on a 2014 truck
Greg's F-150 is worth about $13,000. The simple math we used to decide whether collision coverage was still worth $38 a month.