If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I had a reader post a comment in response to my post about having a hard time coming up with goals for 2009.  Essentially, they encouraged me to try to live within a 1-income budget.  It’s got me thinking.  I [...]

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Well, I went ahead and redeemed my 3,500 points through MyPoints for a $25 Applebee’s gift certificate.  I figured we could use it to counter balance our “dining out” category in the budget, since we never seem to be able to control that aspect of the budget.  And it’s never MEALS out.  It’s always a [...]

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I’m hoping with the new month, it will bring a newfound sense of control over my finances despite the obstacles in our way.  Let’s hope my optimism stays strong throughout the month, huh?
I was able to sell some stuff on ebay for $290.  After giving a portion to a friend (part of the [...]

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Just checked my PayPal account and had another $39.62 in miscellaneous income to snowflake!  Here’s the breakdown:

PayPerPost - $10.00
ExpoTV - $15.07
Associated Content - $11.48
Back to School Aerie.com rebate for using paypal - $3.07 (20% of my purchase from last week, which really means the bra I bought only cost me $12.30 when the original price [...]

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I was just able to add $221.04 into my snowflake account (which I’m saving up as spending money for our September vacation to Myrtle Beach).  Here’s the breakdown:

$15.25 - sold a PS3 game on Ebay
$129.92 - sold our old Sony digital camera on Ebay (8 megapixel w/touchscreen)
$67.87 - sold a TI-89 graphing calculator on Ebay
$3.00 [...]

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First of all I’d like to thank the bloggers over at ExpoTV for mentioning me in their blog today in regards to my entry I wrote earlier (see: here’s your time to shine).  That’s so awesome and I’m glad to be a part of the ExpoTV community!  Have you joined yet?  If not, you should!  [...]

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Like most people, I can be opinionated.  So when I checked my email and received an offer from ExpoTV allowing me to vote for my favorite consumer products  (one video each for shampoo, conditioner, hair product, laundry detergent, fabric softener, deodorant, cell phone, and laptop) and express my opinion in a short 1 minute video [...]

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Yesterday Dave and I went to Walgreen’s to take advantage of a few free after rebate items that I had printed the rebate forms off the internet for. I was running low on my Clear Care contact lens solution and would need to buy some soon anyway, and I found a rebate form from [...]

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I listed some stuff on Ebay last week and the auctions ended.  I was able to rake in about $17 off of scrapbook supplies….and $250 from selling my old laptop!  The touchpad doesn’t work and the CD/DVD-ROM drive is broken…so I was happy with the amount it sold for!  That’s a nice bit of money [...]

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