by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 27, 2011 | for Money
In the mid-1990s, I was a day trader. By that I mean I used an online brokerage account to buy rolling stocks, covered calls, naked puts, and a few other elementary techniques with my new-fangled internet brokerage account. After a few months I had some fabulous...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 27, 2011 | for Home
In the 1970s, my best friend had a shag carpet in her bedroom. I was beyond jealous. I had dreamed of a shag rug—mixed yellow and spring green, to be exact—for my gorgeous new bedroom. But it wasn't happening. My mother was just way to practical to put one of those...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 26, 2011 | for Home, for Money
As we near the first anniversary of moving into our home, we also approach the expiration of the warranties for most typical home appliances. Before they expire, we'll be looking carefully through all our appliances to see if any of them need any kind of servicing. So...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 24, 2011 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When we were building the house, I had a file full of designs I loved. One of the recurring themes was glass tile. Especially glass subway tile. I'd seen it in about every home design book and magazine I'd read through, and had fallen in love with the look. In our...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 24, 2011 | for Spirit
In his transformational book Believing Christ, Stephen Robinson uses the “Parable of the Bicycle” to represent how the atonement works in our lives. The parable is a touching story about Robinson's young daughter trying, unsuccessful, to save enough money...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 24, 2011 | for Money
Back in the early 1990s, Sam and I took the kids on a trip to Yellowstone. Because of his uber-popularity, the university couldn't fathom a week without talking to him every four minutes. The solution was to send us packing (literally) with a doctor's-satchel-sized...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 20, 2011 | for Home, for Money
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carbonite for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Within a month of our wedding, in 1985, Sam proposed again. This time he was hoping for a personal computer in our new little family. I objected. I'd lived 21...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 19, 2011 | for Money
When I was six-years-old my dad took me to Universal Campus Credit Union—BYU's official financial institution of that day—to deposit the hard earned $21 I had saved from weeding and cleaning cupboards. He matched it by adding his own $21 to the account. I was rich!...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 19, 2011 | for Home
Guest post by Gerard McDaniel A good realtor can make the difference between a wonderful and a terrible home buying experience. When I decided to buy my first place, I was excited and ready, but any new experience can always be a little intimidating. I went into the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 16, 2011 | for Fun, Yea Big
[Watching a rainstorm through the dining room window.] Caleb (7): Mom, I knew it was going to rain. Mom: You did? Caleb: Yes. Do you know how? Mom: How? Caleb: I have senses. … Caleb: I've had them since before I was...
