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View Larger Map Happy Summer Greetings  to my billions of Millionaire Educator readers out there!  Most of you are unaware that in mid-January of this year, I took a job teaching Spanish at a high school in a neighboring county.  Naturally, I had to weigh the pros and cons of the opportunity before I could commit 4.5 months of my life to the job.   The job had some deal-breaking aspects:  the school was a "bad" school located 55 minutes / 48 miles from my house, and to make matters worse the school day began at 7:15 for teachers.  In order to cut down on my commuting, I talked to my brother-in-law about crashing at his house once or twice a week, and he said "Sure."   While having a place to stay would greatly reduce my commuting time, it also meant that some nights I would not be home with my beautiful wife and awesome son.  Nevertheless, I bit the bullet and took the job knowing that I could make it worthwhile.      All the cons aside, the teaching assignment had...

  Before we accepted fabulous teaching jobs in Echols County , Georgia, we worked and lived in LaGrange, Georgia for seven years.  Like most people we blindly subscribed to cable television and internet from our local provider, Charter Communications.  Over the years we started feeling a general dissatisfaction with the service; there were frequent internet outages, increasing fees, endless TV commercials, and terrible customer service.  In 2009, our monthly cable and internet bill was $130 a month.  Sometime around 2005 we started using Vonage for our house phone for the seemingly low rate of $33 a month for unlimited U.S calling.  While we were satisfied with Vonage’s service, it further added to our bloated monthly expenses.  Here is a breakdown of what we used to pay:   Old Services Month Year Cable & Internet $130 $1,560 Vonage Phone $33 $396 Total $163 $1,956 For nearly two grand a year we expected to get a lot more satisfaction from our phone, cable and internet services...