Archive for the 'Spending Money' Category

Finding Good Deals

I admit it - I have very little online store loyalty. Instead of shopping at one particular place online, I go searching for coupons and promotion codes. I like to find a percentage off or free shipping. There are a lot of places now that give free shipping with a certain dollar amount order. Most [...]

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Starting off the year right

Two days in (okay does this morning really count?) and we are on the right financial track.
Because of the holiday we got paid late last week. I paid all of our bills and got cash out of the ATM. Me having cash is a RARE thing - I just don’t do it. I find that [...]

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

A Flood of Spending

It’s amazing how once we get in this situation - credit card paid off, a little extra money, extra credit card payments going in - a flood of “needing” to spend comes along.
We ordered books yesterday for DH’s class and I ordered $21 of business supplies (only one order so far but November will be [...]

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Paycheck (mostly) spent

We got paid a mere four days ago and the paycheck is spent. Blah.
We realized that we have it good really - we make good money, we have a house, two cars, lots of food in the house.
So why can’t we get away from what little debt we have!
We are going to - again - [...]

Monday, October 16th, 2006

Today - Yikes!

We made a point to leave the house in order to get to the library sale when it opened. We ended up being about 5 minutes late. I was so excited! Hopeful that the books we put back would somehow still be there. We bought a box and went on our way - each taking [...]

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Books

If I have one addiction, it’s books.
Okay it’s also craft supplies.
But back to the books. Via my homeschool group, I found out that this weekend is the book sale at the local library. How fun! So we went yesterday to browse and see what we could find. The hubs found a lot - in the [...]

Saturday, October 14th, 2006