2008 February | Out of Debt Again

My Free Roll of Paper Towels

By Mrs. Accountability on February 15th, 2008

Years ago, when I was a stay at home mother, with lots of time on my hands, but little money, I used coupons. I also shopped several different stores, every week, to buy all the sale items.

Truth be told, I got burned out on doing that after about five years. And then there [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Life Insurance

By Mrs. Accountability on February 14th, 2008

This relates to money in a way, since if I die, someone’s going to get some money since I pay life insurance.

I say “someone” because at the moment my beneficiary is my mother. I am trying to get the beneficiary changed to my husband, but I’m not sure where my policy is at. [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Credit Card Report January 2008

By Mrs. Accountability on February 12th, 2008

Next month I hope to see much less interest on this report as I hope to have the balances transferred to the lower interest rate card within 30 days.

In my December 2007 report, I mentioned that the second card is a bit confusing as my sister’s cell phone is billed to my credit [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Paid Twice's 0% Interest Credit Card Saga

By Mrs. Accountability on February 11th, 2008

I found a great series by Paid Twice documenting what happened when she moved one of her and her husband’s cards to a 0% interest card. It took some digging around to find the whole story, but I think I found all the related posts. Makes me feel a little better to know what [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Monthly Report January 2008

By Mrs. Accountability on February 10th, 2008

Okay, here’s how January looked.

Payment for credit card #2 comes out of my account automatically, unless I’ve made a payment earlier in the month. Since I made the payment manually on December 31st, the auto-payment didn’t come out on the scheduled date. I didn’t catch that during the month and so technically no [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I Finally Did It! -- 0% Interest

By Mrs. Accountability on February 9th, 2008

Zachary Spencer of This Can Change made a comment over at Mr. Debtbeater’s and following his link to his blog I found a post where he mentions the Citi Professional Cash Card which offers 0% interest on your balance transfers, with no fee to transfer, and no annual fee. This is the best deal [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Watch Your Deductions

By Mrs. Accountability on February 6th, 2008

Whoops! My apologies. I promised to post this yesterday, but we had a little crisis going on last night. One of our neighbor’s children was left home alone and we brought him home for the evening until Grandma finally got home around 8pm. I have been doing double duty at work, shadowing my boss [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Past Due Child Support

By Mrs. Accountability on February 4th, 2008

Mr. A and I have a very unusual child support situation. He owes me child support. However, since we are remarried, any support he pays comes right back to the two of us.

For a few years during our divorce, having sole custody of our children, I was on welfare. Our oldest child has [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]