This is the handout I made for Ange's & my couponing class the other night. I've tweaked it so it's not Florida-specific, and added our process since that was just spoken the other night. If you're wondering why you should bother trying this - well, I've saved us hundreds of dollars this year by doing what I've written here. I was keeping track of ( Read more... )

Dear friends and family,

This has been a great year! So great, in fact, that I did not have time to get any Christmas cards out. I’m disappointed about that, though I must admit I don’t mind saving money by not buying stamps. J As it is, I’m typing this e-newsletter at 10:43pm on Christmas. Better late than never!

2008 began crazily for ( Read more... )

+ SCORE! I just won 10 Swagbucks as Isaac (I registered him on my office computer), which means he gets them and so do I! This is the first time I've won any of the MegaBucks. This puts me up to 83, and Isaac up to 19! (Yeah, I don't use this computer nearly as much as mine at home. Hehe.) I decided to save mine for a while, and they're piling up ( Read more... )

"'Worst Economic Crisis Since The Great Depression'How many times are they going to tell us this? Over and over and over. It is like a mantra from the “Office of the President-Elect”. Since the economy is a beast that is easily frightened, Obama isn’t helping by repeating this over and over. He is creating a self-fulfilling economic outlook ( Read more... )

+ I just got back from the mechanic shop. Isaac said his car's brakes were acting up, so he took my car to work and I took his in this afternoon. I could tell there was something wrong just in the 1½-mile drive there. Turns out it's his master brake cylinder, and he also has a bad CV axle. Those are both quite dangerous, especially considering that ( Read more... )

Boredom is bad for me; it gives me time to think, and thus time to worry. Isaac worrying is really bad for me, because then I worry a lot. What are we worried about? Money; what else? We had the first of many roof replacement estimates yesterday. I'm hoping we started out at the high end, because this one was $5350. Also, Isaac found out that his ( Read more... )