Budget Busters

Here’s our Budget Busters:

1. Gasoline. I’d have the say the number one budget buster for us is gasoline. My job is 48 miles away from our home, and so far all of Mr. A’s jobs for his business are 60-90 miles away from our home. The only thing I can say about Mr. [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

What I Learned About Google Adsense Today

I added Google Adsense ads to my site through my Blogger Dashboard sometime ago. Well, I thought that’s how I signed up for them. I didn’t really remember signing up, and over the weekend I started wondering how in the world do I even make contact with Adsense to see if I’m even earning [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Tire Maintenance How to Get the Most Out of Your Tires

I realized something last week. I know I put a lot of miles on my vehicle, but I’ve never really budgeted for the expense of new tires. It costs me nearly $400 for four new tires. That is a lot of money to come up with all at once, so I’ve decided I need [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Baby Steps Progress and Using the Cash System

I keep getting way behind on staying on top of our finances so last weekend I decided I was going to take 10-15 minutes every evening and enter receipts into Quicken. I’ve been sticking to my goal and I’m very glad because we’ve been having some issues with our checking accounts. We have been [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Our New (Used) Washer and Dryer

Our washer has been showing signs of working less and less effectively in the past couple weeks. I mentioned it to Mr. A, but he didn’t have a chance to look into ituntil last night. Our son was washing a load of clothes and Mr. A took a look in the washer to see [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Thanks and Kudos

If you normally view my blog in a reader, I encourage you to come by and take a look at the renovations I’ve implemented today.

Special thanks to the wonderful community out there that exist to help bloggers, old and new alike to make their blogs do what they want them to.

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Finds on Friday, May 16th

Mrs. Micah’s In Case of Alien Abduction Series. This is an important idea. Like Mrs. Micah, I am also the one in charge of our finances, and I am going to start keeping hard copies of all this information. Mr. A doesn’t “do” computers and if something were to happen to me and [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

What I Almost Got for Mother's Day

My Mother’s Day gift almost cost $400. Mr. A knows how much I love Jacaranda trees, and he wanted to get me a full grown tree, which would be delivered and planted by the nursery.

As it turns out, luckily I verbalized my wish to finally have my own digital camera this year, for [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

It's Time for Dinner

We really don’t like eating fast food, and we try to make our own meals. Usually our 18 year son cooks for us. But it really becomes a burden when one person always has the responsibility for cooking. It is also commonly a problem deciding on what meal to make and what we need [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

What I Spent Part of My Revolution Money Exchange Bonus On

I’ve been wanting one of these for a long time. Literally years. But it was one of these things that we never got around to buying. Well, I finally decided it was time, and I was going to get one. I decided to apply part of our Revolution Money Exchange bonus to this:

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