Thanks for visiting Ultimate Money Blog! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Teen Mom is a show on MTV that airs on Tuesday nights at 10PM. It’s a reality show that follows four ‘teen moms’: Catelynn, Maci, Amber, and Farrah.  The young women were originally part of “16 and Pregnant”, another reality show that is exactly what it sounds like: pregnant 16 year old young women.  Both Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant are like train wrecks: you can’t help but watch because it’s so messed up.  I know I’m addicted, and the majority of my friends are also.  There are some good lessons to be learned from the show (don’t get pregnant until you can completely be responsible for a baby), and I’ve decided to highlight what I’ve observed about money and Teen Mom. Farrah Abraham Farrah’s worst money experience is when Farrah gets scammed on Craigslist.  On Episode 5, Farrah decides she’s going to sell her Dodge Neon on Craigslist.  She lists it, and lo and behold, someone buys it the [...]

Here’s my money mishaps for this week: -While having my friend stay the weekend, she made me want the following new things: a flat screen tv (our tv is small), a laptop (she bought one Sunday and could sit on my couch and surf the internet!), and a new TV stand for our office (the one in here is just UGLY). -On Tuesday (Mr. Money’s day off) we had planned on getting a $5.55 Little Caesar’s pizza for dinner.  Instead we went to our favorite Mediterranean restaurant and spent $21.  Ugh! -While above mentioned friend was here, we ate out two times totaling around $20. -Instead of trying to sell this old entertainment center we have on craigslist, I decided I would try to make it into a new one by sawing off the top part.  I now have a ghettofied tv stand in my office.  Let’s just say it’s not that pretty. That’s pretty much it for me.  What do you have to confess? Make your own post on your blog and then link it here for all to [...]

One day I was talking to my aunt about my job and she asked me why I don’t go back to school to be a CPA because they make good money and with my background in banking it should be a good fitting career. I explained to her that I’m happy for the time being in my career. What I didn’t tell her was that I’m looking forward to being a stay at home mom and that I’m not interested in switching careers because I don’t plan on working full time forever. I want to raise my kids and spend a few years doing that. That’s important to me. I hate when I feel like I have to justify my financial decisions to people. Mr. Money and I don’t go out and buy new clothes, we don’t go on fancy dates, and we don’t go on extravagant vacations. We choose to save our money and spend it on things we really value. If we want to spend money on a new tv, we shouldn’t feel guilty about it as long [...]