Grocery Shopping Series Part III: Is The Value Pack The Best Buy?

This is Part III in a series on saving money on groceries. This post focuses on the value pack vs. the smaller sized package.

As I’m grocery shopping, I take several things into consideration as I make my choices.

In trying to get the best buy, I don’t always buy the cheapest, or the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Grocery Shopping Series Part II: Generic vs. Name Brand?

This is Part II in a series on saving money on groceries. This post will discuss purchasing generic vs. the name brand.

Do you always buy the name brand? Or do you always buy the store brand/generic? An equal split of both?

We all seem to have our loyalties when it comes to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Pitfalls of Starting a New Business?

Mr. A’s business is going gangbusters. It feels like he’s working more hours now than when he held a forty hour a week job. Unfortunately we’ve run into one of the pitfalls of starting a new business.

One little hitch…

He’s working and working and working, but he’s not getting paid.

Yes, you [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Yet One More Update On The Balance Transfer Saga

If you haven’t read it before, you can read all about it from the beginning by clicking on this link.

This should be the final update for this saga.

Today I received a letter from Citicards that said, “Dear Mrs. Accountability: Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding your Citicard account. We’re pleased to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

BlogHerAds!

You may notice something new on my site – over there to the right – at the top of my blog?

A couple of weeks ago I decided to check out BlogHerAds and they were accepting applications. I signed up and a few days after that when I logged on they had a notice [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Festival of Frugality

Neat! I finally worked up my nerve and submitted a post to one of the carnivals, Festival of Frugality. This week’s host is Aaron Stroud of On Financial Success. Thank you, Aaron for hosting and including me in The Paragraph Edition | Festival of Frugality 122.

Grocery Shopping Series Part I: Cheaper Ground Beef

In this series I’m going to tell you how to get ground beef cheaper, which is actually higher quality than standard ground beef.

When I was six years old, my mom worked as a meat wrapper for the butcher shop in a local grocery store. All my life she’s taken the sale cuts of [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Order Your Checks By Mail

Do you still order your checks through your bank? You can save quite a bit of money if you order them yourself.

A friend of mine has been collecting the inserts from the past few Sunday papers and asked if I could help her find the best deal.

First let me say that it [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

2007 Taxes Completed

One of the main reasons I’ve never taken my taxes to be done by a professional is because I never could figure out how they could do a better job than I could.

I mean, if you really think about it, only YOU can know what you spent your money on in the past [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Monthly Report March 2008

I cut our credit card payments down to $150 each this month. We are in hoard mode due to Mr. A’s new business getting off the ground. Word of mouth is traveling and so far he’s keeping busy.

We spent over our budget on gasoline, but we are still working out the details on [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]