Monthly Archives: March 2009

If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another

gardening, taxes
It's finally starting to ease up a bit for me.  I realized yesterday, after working in my garden for three hours, digging an 8 foot long by 2 foot wide and 10 inch deep bed, lining it with chicken wire and filling with composted manure and the dirt I'd dug out of the bed, that finally I've completed my goal to get my garden back in order.  It took six months, but I'm proud to say that I did it. … Read the rest

Quickbooks Pro vs. Quickbooks Simple Start

Business
As you know, I keep Mr. A's books for his two businesses, and for a while I was keeping track using Quicken.  That seemed to work out okay, but it started to get cumbersome because I was having to use Excel to create invoices.  A friend of mine told me she uses Quickbooks, and loved it, so I started checking into the program.  I discovered there is a free version which can be downloaded (which would probably be perfect for… Read the rest

My $15 Yard Sale Find

frugal, spending money
It's getting to be that time of year again at my job – time to get the raffle tickets cut and perforated.  We paid $50 for 1200 sheets to be processed, and this year we're doing 1500, so the cost went up to $65.  On the way back to work last Thursday, having dropped off the tickets, I drove past a yard sale.  I drove past, but was tempted by a purple vacuum sitting at the end of the driveway. … Read the rest