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From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 4:50 pm ET
I read somewhere that couples most frequently argue about money, sex, and children. Well, I know from personal experience, and I’m sure some will agree, that money definitely can be a point of contention in ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 4:20 pm ET
I went yesterday and again today to 2 different stores.
Yesterday I didn't do as well, but here is what I got:
Revlon brush $5
Revlon hairclip (my DD has been begging me for this pretty butterfly clip) ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 2:50 pm ET
Yesterday we did try for the THIRD time to go to our fave (albeit upscale) restaurant.
We fed the kids first. Dh called to see when lunch was and no one answered, so he fed ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 12:50 pm ET
The good news -- thanks to you kind people, I got $25 for my contest entry!
The bad news -- I spent $10 for a deposit on WorldWinner (receiving a $10 match). I am now ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 11:50 am ET
As I wrote the title to this post, the old garbage bag commercial was going through my head. {Wimpy, Wimpy, Wimpy!} However, this post is not about garbage. Rather, it's about Savings.
I will disclose that ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 11:20 am ET
US$130 to principal. So that's $931 down, $519 to go on our July goal.
Due to our recent budget changes, we may struggle to meet this goal. It would be the first goal we didn't meet, ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 11:20 am ET
I've started writing lists for my grocery shopping and I've realized how much more efficient I am at spending our resources by doing this.
On June 28th, I went grocery shopping and bought enough ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 10:20 am ET
For some reason GMC is building lego titanic this week and estimating the weight. He took a calculator formed some theory on how much each person would weigh, multiplied by number of people, and ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 10:20 am ET
I'm having a garage sale next weekend with several friends, so my focus this week is to purge as much as possible. I went to several decluttering websites, and on one it said to ask ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 10:20 am ET
We went to a great fourth of July party last night. It consisted of all the people that we have met over a local forum. None of us knew each other a few ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 9:21 am ET
All I can say is that life and computer issues get in the way sometimes.
A little update - I've updated all of my girls ages, the latest birthday just this past week. ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 8:20 am ET
We will be leaving on Monday on our 12 day vacation to Puerto Rico. I've been planning this vacation for quite sometime and I'm happy to say that all of our expenses are accounted ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 8:20 am ET
Friday was a no spender.
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Well, I really enjoyed my day off from work yesterday. I slept in, then putzed around on my computer for awhile before getting busy with some projects.
One major project was ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 5, 2008 at 7:20 am ET
I love to have FUN! But how do you do that with a family of three without going broke?
Well, if you are me, you think of ways to have fun that are either "cheap" or ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 11:49 pm ET
not such a bad thing...
just as long as they are deposting and not debiting!
No idea where this came from - but hey, I am putting that into my Savings account!! ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 10:20 pm ET
I brought some books with me on the trip to Vancouver: that's right, I spent the Fourth of July applying for a Canadian passport. One book was Doris Janzen Longacre's Living More with Less. I ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 8:50 pm ET
he said there's no indication of anything neurological wrong with me (yay!)...but, he said my blood pressure is high...he prescribed some blood tests to check for the usual (cholesterol, tryglicerids, etc)...gave me some gynko biloba ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 6:20 pm ET
I don't know why, but i dragged out my financial paperwork today. It's a murky, damp and humid day, so it's just the kind of thing I like to play around with.
You see, I've ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 5:50 pm ET
Two years ago, during the summer I had no income coming in, I signed up for a couple of market research panels (e.g., Pinecone), after researching which ones seemed reliable and didn't ask you to ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 5:50 pm ET
Hello. I did pretty well at my sale. It rained literally the entire time I was open for business. It was not so fun.
I did make around $200.00 which was pretty good I thought for ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 5:20 pm ET
-SPENDING-
Gas for BF's Car: $20
Gas for My Truck: $20.03
2.77 Lbs of Pork Ribs: $4.13
2 Ears of Sweet Corn: $1.00
Since our checking account was on the blitz yesterday, BF & I decided that we'd better not ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 2:50 pm ET
As I was saying, seeing all those numbers made my head swim, and it was actually kind of scary... so I went into Excel and tried to "map" it...here's what I came up with:
YEAR 1
This ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 2:50 pm ET
I'm picking up momentum in this debt thing and have surpassed $10,000.00 in debt paid off this year. My next bench mark is $20k and hope to have that in another few months.
My Chase ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 2:20 pm ET
I have to start being very frugal again starting this month until I get the credit cards paid off.
DH and I purchased a home in Florida and the start up cost is quite expensive. ... ( more)
From Finabguide's Personal Finance Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogJuly 4, 2008 at 1:51 pm ET
I had purchased an HP computer from Bestbuy and about 27 days after my purchase I was unable to connect to the Internet (via express card or wi-fi). So I had taken my computer in ... ( more)
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