2008 March | Out of Debt Again

How to Set up a Custom Domain with Blogger

By Mrs. Accountability on March 30th, 2008

Hopefully the changes I made were flawless and if you’re reading me through a reader it’s still feeding properly.

I sprung for a domain registration for the site. The new URL is now www.outofdebtagain.com where formerly it was outofdebtagain.blogspot.com. You can get to Out of Debt Again using either address.

If you would like to do the same, there are a couple options to getting started. First, do you … click here to continue reading How to Set up a Custom Domain with Blogger

To The Taxman We Wenteth

By Mrs. Accountability on March 29th, 2008

Or something like that.

I was stressing about our taxes. I’d started them in TurboTax Online, but then I lost my nerve. I blame it on being sick. I’ve never lost my nerve doing taxes before. Then again, I’ve never owed taxes in my life! This bit about having to pay $2000 was freaking me out to no end. Especially with Mr. A just having started up his business full-time. … click here to continue reading To The Taxman We Wenteth

The Weekly Finance Checkup – My Procedure

By Mrs. Accountability on March 28th, 2008

Every weekend I spend several hours working with our finances. When I do it every single weekend, it’s a lot easier. When I miss a weekend, there’s twice as much data entry. Although it’s difficult to make myself sit down every single weekend, it definitely is less time consuming to do it every weekend.

Here’s how a typical session goes:

Open Quicken.
Open my Excel billing spreadsheet.
Log on to all accounts and print … click here to continue reading The Weekly Finance Checkup – My Procedure

Will Everyone Get a Stimulus Check?

By Mrs. Accountability on March 27th, 2008

My mom called me a couple of days ago, wanting to fill me in on all the details about the Economic Stimulus Payment. She told me even if you didn’t make any money last year, you can still fill out a Form 1040A and get a check. She told me to be sure to fill one out for my oldest son (he is disabled) as he was eligible as … click here to continue reading Will Everyone Get a Stimulus Check?

Getting Your Credit Report, The Old-Fashioned Way

By Mrs. Accountability on March 21st, 2008

I’m sure everyone knows by now that we are entitled to our free credit reports (not the score) through AnnualCreditReport.com.

But what if you don’t have a computer and can’t go online? My mom doesn’t have a computer and asked if I could check her report today. We went through the steps, but come to find out they don’t have her on record. I looked through the site for … click here to continue reading Getting Your Credit Report, The Old-Fashioned Way

My Debt is Bigger Than Yours

By Mrs. Accountability on March 19th, 2008

I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon when talking to people in real life about debt. Generally they have more debt than we do, and the comments always similar, “That’s nothing. I wish I only had $10,000 in debt. Try having $35,000 in debt.”

The implication seems to be that I’m fussing about nothing. As if we have no right to work at paying down my debt, since it’s … click here to continue reading My Debt is Bigger Than Yours

Help With the Finances

By Mrs. Accountability on March 18th, 2008

Mr. A and I used to carpool to work when he had a “regular” job but now that he has his own business I’ve been driving myself. Occasionally it still works out for us to carpool so we did that today.

When we were close to my job, he mentioned he’d watched Dave Ramsey the other night and the show was about a lady who was fully in charge of … click here to continue reading Help With the Finances

Viruses and Trojans and Spyware, Oh My!

By Mrs. Accountability on March 15th, 2008

In addition to being sick, my online time has been seriously limited since March 3rd, as we have once again been invaded by some alien software which is hogging our bandwidth.

We live out in the country and the only high speed internet is satellite. The least expensive option through our ISP is $49.95 a month. We’re limited to 7500MB worth of downloads. That’s roughly 250MB per day. My son … click here to continue reading Viruses and Trojans and Spyware, Oh My!

Good-bye Chase!

By Mrs. Accountability on March 14th, 2008

The payment from Citicards finally arrived at Chase, and we now have a -$0- balance there. Nice.

Our cancellation refund check arrived from Geico Direct in the amount of $269.46.

Mr. A’s last “day job” paycheck hit our checking account this morning to the tune of $999.00. He’s been busy with his new business, so far, so good. We’ll be needing to gear up to drum up more business once this client … click here to continue reading Good-bye Chase!

Credit Card Report February 2008

By Mrs. Accountability on March 9th, 2008

Okay, February’s credit card report.

In January, we owed 10867.83 to two credit cards.

In February, I took a $6000 cash advance transfer into our checking account so we could pay for the past due child support which my husband owes to me (which we in turn have to pay back to the state since I was on welfare for a while).

Toward the end of February, we had a cashier’s check made … click here to continue reading Credit Card Report February 2008