Gardening Carnival

My hay twine post was included at the May 28th My Gardening Patch Carnival.

Thank you My Gardening Patch for the work you put into this carnival. It is a huge carnival, take a few minutes to pop over and check it out!

Mrs. Accountability

Credit Card Worries and Update

President Obama signed a new bill regarding credit card rules which will go into effect in 9 months.

I need to do some research on it as I have heard there are some good and bad points to the new bill. I’ve heard that it could have an effect on “responsible” credit card users [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How Do You Get Through Spending Urges?

Every once in a while I started getting these really strong urges to spend money; especially when we’ve made a renewed commitment to our budget.   The weird thing is, I’m really not that much of a spender.  It’s the deprivation mode setting in.

Here’s some things I did to deal with those urges.

Dug [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Birthday Freebies

Do you take advantage of the birthday free offers from various establishments?

I know there are a lot out there, but I don’t really like to go out if I don’t have to so I don’t usually partake in any of the offers.  I am signed up for these two:

Baskins-Robbins Birthday Club – [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Returning Shoes to Zappos

Back in October I ordered some shoes for Big A from Zappos, and decided to order a matching pair for Mr. A.

Big A’s shoes fit, but Mr. A was aghast that I’d spent over $100 on a pair of shoes; basically he refused to wear them.   I kept telling myself I need to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Magic Erasers

One of my coworkers was telling me about these Magic Erasers.

I had mentioned that I was dreading having to clean the guy shower at my place (the master bathroom is mine, Mr. A and our sons use the other bathroom) because it gets pretty grungy and I wasn’t looking forward to blasting it [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Make It From Scratch Carnival – May 19th, 2009

One of my recent blog posts Upright Gardening: A Use for Hay Twine has been accepted to this week’s Make It From Scratch Carnival.

This is always a fun carnival with lots of great recipes and frugal ideas for making things from scratch, check it out!

Mrs. Accountability

Business Ethics – Cash Under The Table?

How do you feel about cash sales?  If you were a self-proprietor, would you find it easy to “cheat” just a little (or a lot) and not report the cash collected from your customers?

I have strong personal feelings about doing that sort of thing. Not only is it not ethical, but there is [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Would You Go to Mexico for Health Care?

In the last few weeks, I’ve heard people around me having conversations about going to Mexico for health and dental care because the costs are so much lower than they are here – even in some cases – cheaper than co-pays, I understand.

One conversation was at work, after I’d brought my Zenni Optical [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Cheese Enchiladas – Muy Delicioso

I’d like to share our family enchilada recipe with you. My mom started making these when I was a young child, when we lived in an area of town with mostly Hispanic families. It is one of my favorite childhood meals.  Funny About Money probably remembers the old Food City over on Buckeye Road.  [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]