Quick Yakezie Challenge Update: My Alexa ranking is below 1 million. Yay! The guest post I wrote for Daily Money Shot was about making choices, about understanding the trade-offs between what you want, whant you can afford, and what you’re willing to give up. For a very long time, we have had HD cable with an HD DVR. Even when the husband was laid off and we were in our crash budget phase, we kept theread more…
I was challenged by Frugal Students to participate in the 7 Links Project. While I am happy to comply, it’s a little hard with this particular blog, as this will be post #44. That’s not a whole lot to draw from. Since I have two other regular blogs (and a micro-fiction site) I’ll be drawing some of my entries from those. I’ve listed the name of the blog right after each link, so if you onlyread more…
This weekend, the husband was out of town working a convention with a friend of ours. However, in his place, I had my cousin (who has been with us for the whole summer), her best friend, and one of her friends from college. I could make the kids pay for themselves, but that goes against my nature. I remember being in college and the niceness of home cooked meals. So, I took responsibility for feeding allread more…
I have a guest post up over at Daily Money Shot about making choices. Thank you to Jana for inviting me to write one for her!
We have a not so firm plan to adopt a child. It’s been the plan for a while, but adoption is expensive and other things have kept coming up. Right now, the not so firm plan is to wait for the husband to finish school (in one to two years) and then save up the money for adoption fees. There’s a local agency that does a sliding scale fee, so we’re looking at around $14,000 forread more…
About two weeks ago now, I dropped my cell phone in a puddle. Water damage, they tell me, is irreparable. Naturally, I had had that phone less than one year. My husband, on the other hand, has had his phone for almost two years. If this accident had happened two months from now, we could have gotten a new phone on a new contract and been done with it. Sure the website says he’d get aread more…
As part of the Yakezie challenge, I’m being introduced to some great new blogs and I wanted to share some of my favorite posts with my readers, so here’s the first Baking the Budget roundup. Beating Broke wrote about treating the US Government like a regular Joe when it comes to budget issues Brave New Life talks about why to stop worrying about investing and just start saving Daily Money Shot writes about the importance ofread more…
Friday: Spending: $0 Dinner: Frozen raviolis ($? – these have been in our freezer for a long time) Activities: Dog park, Rock Band, A-Team (Netflix) Saturday: Spending: ~$187 CostCo $69.99 $28 of that was no new jeans for my husband. This will come out of his allowance. Otherwise: $14.08 (-$4 coupon) 2 boxes of cereal $1.39 bananas $4.91 2 gallons milk $9.99 2 containers dishwasher detergent $10.99 dog biscuits Gas: underread more…
Okay, after just one week, my Alexa rank is down to under 3.25 million. Cut in half already. Now I just need to do that again another 4 times
I hate saying No to my friends and family. I really hate swaying No to myself. But sometimes, that’s what has to happen. Every summer, my husband and I go to the local Renaissance Faire. It runs three weekends in August, and we try to go twice. For just the two of us, its not that expensive. This year, we have my 19y/o cousin for the summer. During August, her best friend will be visiting asread more…
