Monthly Archives: September 2009

September 2009 Gardening

gardening
My garden is still producing.  The watermelon plants have done wonderfully, and I was able to harvest a watermelon a couple of days ago. It is a Malali watermelon. So far this is the largest one, although I believe this variety is supposed to be 10-15 pounds. It came in just under 5 pounds, at 4 pounds 14 ounces. This grew on the netting I made, and I'd given it extra support with that netting that covers the frozen turkeys,… Read the rest

Family Cloth?

frugal
In a recent post over at Mrs. Money's, she had a conversation with her neighbor's teenaged boy who asked “Why are you always hanging those little cloths outside?  What do you use those for?” and then she links to another post titled Cloth Toilet Paper. I honestly have never heard of such a thing before!  I thought I was pretty “up” on this green and frugal stuff. My first thought was EWWWWWW. But then I thought maybe I could at… Read the rest

Transferring Balances

credit cards
On August 16th I said, “I am going to make a point this month to transfer two credit cards over to another one that is offering 0% interest until May 2010. I am tempted to go with the 2.99% interest for one year… but will probably go with the 0% offer. I had better hurry and do the transfer, before they decide to do me a favor and close the account, since I haven’t used the account in a while.”… Read the rest

August 2009 Monthly Report

Monthly Reports
Last month we decided Mr. A would begin using his business credit card for gasoline purchases, so we came in just under my estimate for gasoline for my vehicle.  Mr. A's truck is used almost exclusively for his business so we shouldn't really count the money we pay for gasoline as personal expenses. Without even trying, we came in $229.60 under budget on groceries, although in the last week of August we decided to cut the grocery budget to $160/week.… Read the rest