Published in October 31st, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So after taking a month-long hiatus from drug store shopping, I made a list yesterday and headed to Walgreens and Rite Aid…and neither of them had what I wanted in stock! Well, they had a few items, but most of [...]
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Published in October 31st, 2008
I did an entire series on credit cards and the benefits and downfalls of them in the past (you can see it by starting here), but I’ve had some friends and family ask me lately on how to go about finding the right credit card for them. That’s a really good question, too!
There are many [...]
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Published in October 29th, 2008
Oh my goodness. I’ve been so preoccupied with work and school and other household-type stuff that I’m finding it hard to write as often as I would like. However, here are some financial highlights as of late:
I’ve started a “fun money” fund where I can stash some cash here and there so that when I’m [...]
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Published in October 28th, 2008
I got shrimp on sale a while back at the grocery store in hopes that I could come up with a tasty, frugal recipe. Of course, using the crockpot was just a bonus (I love my crockpot).
All I did was throw in the shrimp with a stick of butter, 1/4 cup of Worcestershire sauce, some [...]
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Published in October 24th, 2008
First of all, I’ve totally been slacking on the Friday Roundup front…seems like the week flies by and I have a list of great links and then Friday comes and goes and I forget to post ‘em. I’m so bad…but I HAVE been good at commenting on the sites I read, so that’s something at [...]
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Published in October 23rd, 2008
It dawned on me that not everyone who reads here may be in the same financial situation as me. We all have our own struggles and downfalls and differences when it comes to finances. Even if you have bad credit, it’s still possible to get approved for credit cards and other lines of [...]
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Published in October 23rd, 2008
This article on temptation over at My Daily Dollars inspired me to think about how I’ve changed when it comes to my shopping habits. I’m not talking grocery shopping or buying the things we need, but instead the shopping that comes from being a self proclaimed shopaholic.
Her article went on to explain that whenever she [...]
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Published in October 22nd, 2008
October hasn’t been the best in the way of reducing our debt. First, I switched our focus from debt reduction to savings again earlier this month. Then we bought some things that we plan to sell on Ebay next month because we know we can make a decent profit on them since they are hard [...]
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Published in October 21st, 2008
Catherine over at Reflections of a Contemplative Mother wrote up a step-by-step on how to get 18 Omaha Steak burgers for under $2. Sound too good to be true? It isn’t! I followed her handy instructions and just placed my order and paid just $1.98! That’s 5.5 pounds of steak burger for $.36 per pound! [...]
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Published in October 20th, 2008
The other night we had company over and we decided we wanted to watch some old school horror flicks. We didn’t actually own anything we wanted to see, so we decided to go to Family Video and rent some DVDs. We picked out Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and Hellraiser, opened a new account, and [...]
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