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Do You Qualify to be -Truly- Frugal?

On Sunday one of my fellow bloggers was taken to task by an anonymous commenter, who suggested that the author was not “truly frugal”. Abigail from I Pick Up Pennies defended herself rather admirably in a response post What is a “True” Frugal Blogger?

I thought it would be interesting to have a look [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Need A Small Dollar Item on Amazon?

How many times has this happened to you while shopping at Amazon? Have you, like me, gone to order one book, find a second one that you want and find that both books come to just a dollar or two short of free shipping?

I’ve wondered if there was some way to find something [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Do You Wear Pajamas?

My hubby got me a pair of pajamas for Christmas. Yes, I know we all agreed to buy each other nothing, but when I found he’d bought me something, I went and bought him a pair of slippers. And I also remembered something I wanted to get for AJ, and I already had bought [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

My Guest Post over at Ask Mr. Credit Card

Last Tuesday Mr. Credit Card was kind enough to include my guest post which described my debt consolidation experience in more detail than I’ve shared here on my blog.

Mr. Credit Card also does a blog talk radio show where he interviews personal finance bloggers. I have been listening to his talk shows on [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

If You Have Google Adsense, You Need a Privacy Policy

If you’re a blogger, and you use Adsense, do you have a privacy policy in place?

About a month ago I learned while reading this post over at Christian Personal Finance that any site which uses Google Adsense is required to have a privacy policy in order for the site to be within compliance [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Merry Christmas!

I hope you had a wonderful day today. We had a very relaxing day spending time together cooking and playing Wii games. I opened a present that I’d received by snail mail from one of my good blogging buddies, thank you my friend, you know who you are.

I did some blog maintenance today. [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Credit Card Report November 2009

I reported in October that our credit card debt was at $23,847.48.   After finance charges and payments, at the end of November, our credit card debt is at $23,775.36.

It has gone down $72.36.

I am very pleased to report we did not use our personal credit cards in November. No wait, that’s a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Nikon’s Doing Me Wrong – My Coolpix L100 Doesn’t Have Fireworks Mode

I bought a Nikon Coolpix L100 through Amazon on Thanksgiving. I received the camera a few days later, and was pretty happy with it.  Then I discovered, in spite of reading reviews all over the Internet and seeing it on Nikon’s site with my own two eyes, my most favorite mode was missing.  Fireworks.

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Our Plans for Christmas Day

We are planning to have a nice relaxing day at home.  We might have a bonfire in the evening, after dinner.

It looks like we will not be having a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, but I’m not exactly sure of the menu. I’m sure it will be delicious.

We have agreed as a family to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

INGDirect Sub-Accounts Savings

I talked with Mr. A the other morning about using his INGDirect account to hold our budgeted savings. He asked why would I want to use ING rather than our regular savings, and he also wondered since they are only available online, what are their interest rates. He said if they don’t have the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]