Change in Strategy

I am changing the theme of my blog to having an "ordinary life" in today's world. Gives me more room to discuss life in your 50's and what that means. I can then talk about our debt reduction plans, travel and just simply living in the world today. Of course my focus is a home without kids and how different your life is from those that have children around.

Kiva

On GMA this morning, I heard a story about Kiva, a small company that links people with organizations that loan money. The borrowers are small business owners all over the world that are too small or cannot get conventional credit. You can loan as little as $25 and it will pool into a fund that will loan the amount of money needed. I just loaned $50 to Luisa who is a pet supply business owner with her family in San Jose, Ca. She is asking for $5500 to buy the aquarium supply inventory of another business that went bankrupt.

I was impressed with this company because on Kiva, you can see exactly who you are helping and while I should get paid back, I don't care if I do because I hope this helps someone who is just trying to make it in this tough economy. I picked Luisa because she is from my hometown area and I have actually purchased from her business in the past.

It is another advantage of not having kids; you have plenty of money to help others in meaningful ways.