Published in November 7th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Lynnae’s post over at Being Frugal about how to make ends meet when you can’t find a good job got me thinking. When I started this blog, I had been out of work for almost 4 months. This was the [...]
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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 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 September 25th, 2008
While we were in Las Vegas on vacation earlier this month, we went out to dinner at Margaritaville, which was right next door to our hotel. We hadn’t planned on it, but our last night there there wasn’t much else to do since we didn’t want to buy tickets to see another show (had already [...]
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Published in August 12th, 2008
I’m in Chicago for the week with my husband while he does some work out this way. Since I wasn’t sure how much time I would have to keep up on posts, I’ve requested three of my favorite bloggers to write guest posts for me this week. Today is the first guest post.
Kacie blogs at [...]
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Published in August 4th, 2008
Ok, here’s the deal. I have a secret.
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I don’t really have a budget.
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I say “really” because I guess I kind of do of sorts, but not to the extent that I have categories and allotted spending amounts and this and that. I keep track of all my incoming and outgoing money in MicroSoft Money (which [...]
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Published in July 28th, 2008
I went into Wal-Mart the other day (which I don’t normally do anymore) to pick up a few things and ran into some old co-workers of mine. Awkward. That’s why I usually try to go at night when I know I won’t have to talk to people I know. (And this wasn’t even the Wal-Mart [...]
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Published in July 19th, 2008
From the time I was a little girl, I was taught the difference between needs and wants. Mainly because my mother was always telling me, “You don’t need that!” in response to my whining that I just “had to have” the newest this-or-that. And she was right. I didn’t need it. [...]
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Published in July 14th, 2008
I need new glasses. And contacts. The first thing that came to mind when this dawned on me was “$$$!” That stuff is expensive! But the longer that I put it off, the worse my eyes will get. I learned that lesson once. Don’t continue to wear contacts if [...]
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Published in July 8th, 2008
I should have known that it would be a slow process to which we could switch over from using the credit cards occasionally to not using them all. Which is why I shouldn’t be discouraged when things come up and the only option is to charge it.
I keep reminding myself that slow and steady [...]
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