Monthly Archives: January 2009

Our Trash Company Clearly Wants Out of the Business

True Confessions
I blogged about our trash dilemma and promised an update. Mr. A looked into the other company and we were thinking about switching. The only thing that made us uncomfortable is the competitor empties the 90 gallon cans by hand. With our current company, we don't have to bag every single thing that goes in, but we would with the new company. So we debated a while, and finally I asked Mr. A for his decision. He said maybe we… Read the rest

$20K Line of Credit, Use It or Lose It?

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I need some more advice this morning, if you've got the time to offer your two cents. Mr. A's business checking account came with a $20,000 line of credit. We have only used it a couple of times, to move money over when we hadn't been paid by a customer in a timely manner, and last month when we bought the used Chevy truck for $2000, we drew $1000 out of this account. I've made one minimum payment so far… Read the rest

The Phone That Won’t Work

True Confessions
Currently Mr. A's cell phone is his business line. We have advertising in the Yellow Book and Yellow Pages, on his websites, business cards, Craigslist, four newspapers, all using the one phone number. But Mr. A's phone is over two years old now, and we think it's not getting good reception as he seems to be missing a lot of calls. One of my previous cell phones was doing that. Our plan is through T-Mobile and I have been with… Read the rest