On to lighter topics! I’ve been browsing all of my favorite stores clearance and sale sections and their outlet stores (the ones that are online anyway) searching for more clothes for my kids. I continue to be amazed at how much they grow in a short amount of time and could compare them to plants [...]
Gifts are always so hard to buy. I’ve known what I wanted to get my Mom for Mother’s Day for about a month or so, but still haven’t bought it. She would like an iPod, she goes on daily walks and once in a while hits the gym. I’ve been holding off because I was [...]
Last week at gymnastics, a friend of ours told us about the local $2 theater - somehow in living here for 16 months we never knew about it! We took the kids to the theater earlier this evening to see “Meet The Robinsons.” It was such a good movie! I usually really like the kids [...]
A quick reminder to have an antivirus program on your computer! Here is a place for free Norton AntiVirus downloads. Setting up all of my antivirus/antispyware programs was the first thing I did on the laptop. It’s best to have a couple of different pieces of software on your computer as they each protect against [...]
When we moved into this house we made the decision to go with VOIP service. We got a wireless router with two phone ports and had service right away, much faster then the phone company could get us a line and also much faster then the cable company could get us their version of VOIP.
We [...]
As someone who loves to save money and look for great deals, I think this contest site is a great idea. You can enter contests for free over at whogets.com. The contests range from $10 to $600 value and there will be hundreds of contests you can pick to enter. There are two rounds to [...]
Have you heard of IDrive? It is a free online backup service - free up to 2GB of storage. There is a paid version available ($49.50/year) and that comes with unlimited storage. I hope you have some sort of backup system. I have an external hard drive which has the same amount of memory as [...]
I’m so excited! The part for the dishwasher arrived this afternoon and we replaced it tonight. It was the pump, under warranty, thus saving us $70. We replaced it ourselves saving $70 on a service call and probably at least another $100 on labor. We are going to put that much on top of our [...]
We have one paid off credit card and another with a balance. Since the plumbing issues - at both houses - came up, we are trying really hard not to use either of the cards. I am still working on finding a handyman and figuring what is easier to fix - ie maybe a professional [...]
After browsing through the most recent Carnival of Debt Reduction I found a few great articles.
The one I am paying most attention to is How to Improve Your Credit Score. I haven’t looked at mine or my husbands credit reports in over a year. It’s time to order them. I don’t have any excuses since [...]