We need to get our furnace and air conditioning replaced. That's . . . a lot of money. We also need to get the roof over the back of the house fixed, and get an outside staircase removed or replaced, and a door changed to a window (unless we actually get the staircase replaced instead of removed). That's . . . a lot more money ( Read more... )

. . . and the Air Force needs to have a bake sale to raise money for a new bomber.

AFC School Board Votes to Cut 7 Teachers and four non-faculty positions, too. This is our school district. One of the teachers getting cut, Mr. Taylor, is the art teacher for the junior high and high school. He is both Thing One and Thing Two's favorite teacher ( Read more... )

We are in dire financial straits. Like, about to lose the house and have to live in our minivan type dire. So, we've started an Indiegogo campaign. If you could at least spread the word, we would be incredibly grateful.

"Cry 'Havoc!'" is a campaign to help a family get back on their feet, so their dreams can take off running.

I bought a $20 raffle ticket for a Harley Davidson Dyna Switchback today. Actually, the good spouse gave me the money, but my name is the one on the ticket. And the winner can choose $10K in cash, instead. The girl who sold me the ticket asked which I'd take. I said, "The Harley ( Read more... )

To school fundraising sales, that is.This is something the good spouse and I have been saying for a couple of years now. We would much rather write a check to the PTA and have it all go to the school, than feel obligated to sell crap to our families and friends and make some fundraising company rich ( Read more... )

NACHA, The Electronic Payments Association, has released an alert today about a new phishing scam targeting people and businesses who use direct deposit/ACH transfers.

There's an e-mail being sent out to individuals and businesses claiming to be from NACHA, saying that a transaction failed. According to the NACHA website,

NACHA itself does not ( Read more... )

Pampered Chef has a proper (mostly) cookie press. It's plastic/plexiglass instead of aluminum and copper like a good old Mirro press, but it's not a gun! You turn the top to work the press! It doesn't have all the right disks (meaning the ones that used to come with the good old Mirro press), but maybe the ones from my icky gun-press would fit ( Read more... )

Prices at the grocery store could go up as much as five percent in the next year. That's bad enough, but if you read the article, it uses the example of a person who now spends $300 a week on groceries.

Who the fuck spends that much money on groceries? We are a family of five, plus three cats, and we're trying to cut back on the $150 we spend ( Read more... )

This is one of the reasons I miss watching television. It sounds like it will be a really good program. Of course, the Things are a little old for Sesame Street (although you'd never know it the way they sit and watch old tapes with Little Cat Z), and Z is not really going to understand any of it (except, "Look, Elmo! Look, Ernie! Look, Bert ( Read more... )